Canton Dim Sum

As of mid February, 2014, this restaurant is closed.

This was a great place for dim sum. But now it is closed. Duck lee is taking the spot.

Six months later and they went downhill. The food isn’t horrible but they really don’t have their act together.

Pretty good, reasonable cost; though they were sold out of a few dim sum choices. The crispy chicken minute noodles were yummy.

Went at 12:30– most of the dim sum was sold out. Had the rice cake– I had softer.
If you are going to advertise dim sum, better make sure you have. Saw several people come in to order, only to be told that they were out already.
We sampled the crispy chicken, choy sum, pork chops and chow fun. The chicken was yummy and moist. All of the dishes were too salty for my taste (the waitress did say they used MSG which to be fair as do the majority of Chinese restaurants.)
The pork chops weren’t very meaty at all and was very salty.
To be fair, maybe we should come back and try the dim sum. Don’t come on the weekend though!

Not that bad.
Living close to Market City, the opening of Canton Dim Sum is seen as a nice addition according to my Chinese family. I have not visited the restaurant, but I did have food from here on numerous occasions as my family likes to get takeout from here.
Canton Dim Sum has received some mediocre reviews. Some of them that I find a bit unfair since this is not a full-​scale dim sum restaurant. This is more of a takeout dim sum spot and should be judged based on that.
In addition to the dim sum, the restaurant offers rice and noodle dishes. My family is quite fond of the noodles here. I have had the Canton chow mein and beef chow funn here and both are tasty. Good on its own or part of a larger meal. They are a good value since a plate of noodles runs just $ 6.99 each here.
I did try a couple of dim sum items. Though I have heard the gossip that the dim sum here is not good, I found the fun guo (chiu chow dumplings) and Malaysian sponge cake to be not bad. They were fine for what it was, takeout dim sum.
If you are looking for some quick dim sum or Chinese food takeout, Canton Dim Sum is a good spot to go. Prices here are very reasonable for what you get. Make sure though to set your expectations. This is a simple Chinese eatery along the same lines of neighboring Duck Lee, not a full scale Chinese restaurant.

The Food was alright… nothing special, dim sum, manapua, pork hash, gau gee the normal. BUT they do have other enticing items on their menu like the Baked Honey BBQ Pork Roll, Chicken Mochi Rice in Lotus leaf or the Fried Taro Dumplings but you’ll never know BECAUSE they are ALWAYS OUT OF STOCK. I mentioned this to the person taking the order that I’ve tried to order those items 3 times now for dinner and every time I go there’s only the basics mentioned above. The clerk told me that this was customary during the evening hours. I suggested that they stock more inventory since people do tend to eat in the evening as well… GUESS IT’S MORE OF A LUNCH PLACE. I was also surprised to hear that our take out would take 20min. Hmm…
When I got there the clerk gave me a free Fried meat dumpling, which was nice. But I was extremely disapointed when I got home and there was not hot mustard for my pork hash or manapua’s which I ordered like 4 orders of each! Not having the hot mustard to dip my manapua bread into was disaponted since they were mostly bread and VERY LITTLE MEAT! Food is loaded with MSG but what Chinese food isn’t, minute Chicken was flavorless and not as crispy as I remember it. All in all good thing it was cheap, guess I can’t complain.

The place is clean for a small hole in the wall chinese restaurant. The employees are nice as well. This place serves dim sum all day, even for dinner, which is unusual since dim sum is usually considered breakfast food.
This time my parents and I didn’t order family style, which we usually do everytime we eat Chinese food. Instead my mom and I each got their won ton mein and my dad got their jook (rice porridge). My dad did notice their jook serving is on the smaller side than what he usually gets at other Chinese restaurants. The won ton mein was not bad either.
I wouldn’t mind going back based on the cleaniness of the place as the kind workers. Even if the food was so-​so.

I decided to pick something up after paying a visit to my doctor’s. My first impression of the place was that it was nice and clean, but the parking is nuts! Thank goodness for the security guard who was helpful in finding a space.
I ordered seafood over noodles and some dim sum to go. The noodles were tasty, and the portion was generous. The noodles and the seafood were cooked perfectly.
Now comes the «not so impressed» part. The dim sum (dan ta, siu mai, lo mai gai, fun goh and har gau) was mediocre. I have had better at Chinatown — hard to beat Legend, Happy Day and Nice Day. In comparison to those other places, the prices here popped my eyes out!
I would definitely go back for the noodles. Since the place is relatively new, maybe the dim sum will improve over time. Hope so!

Went there today since didn’t want to wait for an hour and a half at Café Kaila. We ordered shrimp dumpling, siu mai, baked char siu buns, salt and pepper chicken wings and seafood fried noodle. Overall, the dim sums are nothing special. Suspect they didn’t make the dim sums in house. The chicken wings and noodle were better than the dim sums. Will we visit this place again? There are more better dim sum restaurants in town.

Dim Sum– First time we tried this dim sum and unfortunately it’s not a favorite of ours. At 6pm the dim sum was warm vs. hot and Happy Day’s in Kaimuki is better.
Menu orders– we also tried the crispy gau gee mein and that was tasty.
Service– The service is bad. The waitress could barely understand us and others. We also asked to hold on to the menu so we could decide if we wanted anything else and she said, «No! The boss don’t like.»
Don’t think we’ll be back any time soon.

I like this place.
It’s small, and I like that ambiance.
I know it just opened so I’m not gonna knock them. I was disappointed that some of the menu items they had on display were not available (dumpling soup!; ;). But was what available, was absolutely delicious.
My bf and I had the honey bbq rolls, the seafood dumplings, the gaugee noodle soup, shumai (which had hardly any filler and mostly pork — YUM), the custard tarts, and the malaysian sponge cake (OMG Heaven).
I definitely will be coming back here often.

After reading about the restaurant in the Sunday paper, we decided to buy dim sum for lunch. Parking lot was very crowded. We tried the custard buns (good taste but the bread was too chewy), deep fried taro (pretty good), meat-​filled gin doi (too oily and filling tasted only ok), baked char siu pastry (filling was too skimpy so could barely taste the char siu), mochi rice wrapped in lotus leaf (tasted ok, a little too salty), and pork hash/​siu mai (very fluffy filling — not as meaty in flavor as other places). Also tried the Malaysian sponge cake which was light and tasty. Verdict: We prefer the flavor at the other Chinese dim sum place in Kaimuki but might consider re-​visiting after a few months to see if the food improves.

I’m not impressed. First of all, the food presentation was a little poor. We got all of our orders in one plate. After receiving all of what we ordered we got a half chicken that was mistakenly given to us (we did not order the chicken). Our tea was served in plastic cups and we weren’t even given extra plates or napkins. I feel kind of bad that they’re unorganized. That one guy who looks like the manager seemed to be doing everything and he seemed liked he was really trying. I probably won’t be back here anytime soon though because of the quality of the food. I prefer my food hot and not cold and hard like it’s been out for hours. I’d rather eat 7−11s pork hash. Haha Also, they don’t even tell you until after you get your food that you must have a minimum of $ 10 worth of food to use debit/​credit cards. Ya, I’m done.

We were gonna go Gina’s BBQ but we wanted to try something new… we went canton dim sum, at first it was okay
But no cups of water were given to us… So we wanted hot tea, they dont even have us a cup made for hot tea.
We got our order in and I wasn’t impressed on the way they presented it. They just got all of our orders put it onto one plate! Did they expect two of us to eat from one plate?!
The taste of the food was okay but some of it made me wanna go bleeh because it tasted old and it’s like they only reheated it (it wasn’t even that hot or warm for that matter)
While eating they have us a half crispy chicken (clearly we did NOT order) but we took a piece cuz we thought it was complimentary… but no I was an accident and they took it back to the kitchen… About 3 min later the «chef» came out of the kitchen and gave the same plate of chicken that was on our table back to the waiter… the other waiter took the plate from him then gave that plate to another table!
I feel bad!
The food and service did not satisfy me at all! They need to be more organized

My friend was talking about a new Dim Sum place at the Market City Shopping Center called — «Canton Dim Sum», and how you could purchased items individually.
Today I was rushing around at work, but need to pick up something quick to bring to my pops for lunch, as his leg was not fully healed yet from taking a grindage last week.
I remembered the place my friend had told me about, and decided to give it a try… big mistake!
As I went inside to pick up a few items, the lady who was helping me seemed like she was trying to make be buy items as a set, but I told her I only wanted a few individual items (Pops is not a big eater).
From there, I bust out my Chinese & order, that way she knows she dealing with another «Chinaman», & to not pull anything on me. Lol!!!
I ordered few items — Char Sui Manapua, Har Gau, Sui Mai, & Custard Tart. All of this for $ 5.30…cheap, but I guess when my dad tried to choke down the items, I felt really bad, as I guess the food was not too palatable…
Next time, I will stick to what I know, & go to a regular Chinese restaurant like Happy Day’s in Kaimuki to pick up some Dim Sum… believe me, you’ll be better off!

Fast service and can order out.

I just went to this place around the ninth of this August. The baked bollau bao is just delish. The creamy texture was good, and bread was fine. Service is ok, but the point is, is that there are only one server there and the choices are little though. But hey, i’d rather go there than chinatown man. Hope you guys make more choices and varieties and i’ll be happy as a rock.

This place is not worth my time. I give this place a ²⁄₅ star for numerous reasons.
1. Taste is not extraordinary or great in any way. The coverings for the dim sum is not soft when it is supposed to be, tough on the edges, and little content inside.
2. Availability of menu items are low. I tried to order some available dishes and ones that I saw on the newspaper advertisement which they replied were not available. How can you open a store and not have the pics shown on the paper even available!
3. Pricing is cool since it is by the item instead of forcing someone to buy 3 or 4 at a time like a regular dim sum place. Due to its lack of flavor, taste, and content though, this ‘pick your dim sum’ tool is not spectacular
4. Pricing is not unreasonable but you can definitely find better elsewhere in Chinatown. I recommend putting your money somewhere else. Was fairly disappointed with the food quality.
5. Uncoordinated service. It was ok but to make an impression for the public opening day, I can say I didn’t find anything great that would make me want to come back.
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Cute little dim sum shop in the middle of market city shopping center … Their grand opening was today so not big of a variety on products but considering what was out it was all very good. I been waiting for a dim sum place to open around in this area other then china town and I’m fortunate it’s right down the road.
Service very cute kids all energetic and happy go lucky, willing to help the customers but still a lot to learn one girl made a few mistakes but she kept apologizing with a smile and I couldn’t get upset point is she’s trying and it is her first day.
Overall I will be back to check out the rest of what they have to offer being pregnant and wanting this is perfect for me.