RSS
Twitter
Facebook
YouTubeHas anyone found an actual Sunday sit down dim sum restaurant in Columbus where they wheel the delights by your table on carts and let you rack up a huge appetite and bill?
I miss good dim sum... :cry:
Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion » Q&A
Dim Sum in Columbus?
[132 posts] [40 contributors]
Topic Rating:
(Total Ratings: )
Rate this topic:
Rate this topic:
-
Columbus1340
Polaris
Login to Send PM
Posted 4 years ago # -
ChrisSunami
King-Lincoln District
Login to Send PM
There's really top notch Dim Sum at Sun Ton Luck. Unfortunately, they have a very limited Dim Sum menu, and it's gotten more so recently. There's a much larger selection of Dim Sum at Joy's Village, but the quality is lower.
I've heard rumors that there are Columbus restaurants that actually feature the carts, but I've yet to find one. Still, if sheer quality of food outweighs atmosphere or "experience", I'd check out Sun Ton Luck --it looks like a typical hole in the wall, but it's not.
There's more about STL on my site:
Posted 4 years ago # -
Rocknrolloutlaws
German Village
Login to Send PM
There is a place that has the cart on sundays just off of olentangy river road. I forget the name of it, but it's in the strip right there on the corner of olentangy RR and Ackerman Rd. The one with the Big Lots in it, and there's an applebees on the corner.
i've been there a couple of times and have been pleased with both the quality and variety.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Rocknrolloutlaws
German Village
Login to Send PM
Yeah, Fortune, that's it. I suppose I should have been a good messageboard member and looked it up rather than giving a nebulous description. Sorry about that. But I see others have been there as well. Their selection is quite large, and I've really enjoyed just about everything i've had. I used to live up that way and ordered takeout a few times, it was good but felt their dim sum was even better.
Posted 4 years ago # -
EatDrinkColumbus
Bexley
Login to Send PM
Went out to Sunflower at about noon today for their dim sum. They had their dim sum carts out! It was awesome. It was like I was back home in Hawaii. Loud, raucous, food flowing from all directions. I had a lot of great, authentic dishes:
turnip cake, taro gok, beef brisket stew, mochi rice and chicken wrapped in lotus leaf, steamed char siu bao, vegetable dumpling, pork and egg dumpling, almond tofu, etc.
They had all kinds of different things we didn't get to try: egg tart, bolo bao, siu mai, hau gau, etc. I'm allergic to seafood, so we didn't get any of the shrimp dishes, but we were still able to find a lot of other items to suit us!
They also have Hong Kong style noodle in soup, black bean beef chow fun, congee, churn fun (shrimp, beef, or char siu filling) that you can order. On a different trip, we got the churn fun in xo sauce, delicious!
If you're craving dim sum, i would definitely give Sunflower a try. I think they have the dim sum carts out on the weekends only (for brunch/lunch), but I was able to order some of the items off a list off hours if you're not able to get there then.
Posted 4 years ago # -
roy
Downtown
Login to Send PM
I too love the tea carts, but I got scared off Fortune after finding a large dead cock-a-roach in my drinking water glass. At the time the Columbus Health Department didn't list inspection details online like they do now, so I called them. Not to report the bugs, really, I just wondered if my experience was uncommon. I was sorry to learn it was not. More recently their inspections have improved, but they continue to get cited for dirty food surfaces and off-temp food.
See Helena at Sun Tong Luck on Bethel Road. It'll be the best food you've ever had on Styrofoam.
Posted 4 years ago # -
CDS sherman
East Franklinton
Login to Send PM
used to be a chinese place in the university plaza. cant remember the name but the folks in our group were raving over the dim sum. im not an expert so i was taking there word for it.
Posted 4 years ago # -
ChrisSunami
King-Lincoln District
Login to Send PM
Unfortunately my favorite dim sum place (Sun Ton Luck) has removed almost all their dim sum from the menu --although you can still get superior shumai there if you want.
But my new go to place for dim sum is Joy's Village in the underground mall (university plaza? probably the same place CDS is talking about... ) next to Pochi Tea Station.
Some of us may remember the old Joy's Village with a queasy feeling in the stomach, but it's under new management now, and surprisingly authentic (at least as of the last time I was there which was several months ago).
Their Dim Sum is not necessarily anything exceptional, but it's very tasty, reasonably cheap, and they have a super-wide variety to choose from, including some that you don't often see.
Posted 4 years ago # -
shroud
Polaris
Login to Send PM
Wow, that's crazy to hear about Joy's Village - I'm definitely one in the "remember with a queasy feeling" group - that place was just dingy. I'll definitely have to give it another shot. If nothing else it's always fun walking around in that crazy, empty half-done underground mall... :lol:
I think the place CDS is referring to though is Fortune Chinese over in the strip with Kroger on Olentangy. They've got a dim sum menu, and I believe even do the whole cart thing on certain days.
Posted 4 years ago # -
lisathewaitress
SoHud
Login to Send PM
A bunch of us met at Lee Garden for dim sum this morning - we had chicken feet, taro buns, scallion pancakes, dumplings, crispy duck - all sorts of good things. I thought it was really great. If nothing else, it was a ton of interesting food for very, very little money. It is in Dublin, but worth the drive, I thought.
They had all sorts of carts going around at the same thing. Our tab for one entree and then as much dim sum as we could cram in, was $80 or $90 for 10 people. Not too bad.
I received an email from a Chinese reader who strongly cautioned against Sunflower in general, but I've heard their dim sum is good. Alas, it is really, really far out there. Even further than Lee Garden.
Posted 4 years ago # -
mbeaumont
victorian village
Login to Send PM
After just being out in Seattle and having an amazing Dim Sum experience, I'm looking for a good place to grab some back home in Columbus. Since this thread is a year old, I thought I'd check back.
So what's the best place these days? Sunflower? Lee Garden? Joy's Village?
Something else I'm missing?Thanks!
Posted 2 years ago # -
CMH Gourmand
(King of) the (Clinton)ville
Login to Send PM
Little Dragons on Morse and Karl has good Dim Sum - no cart but a very deep menu.
Posted 2 years ago # -
patient_zero
Falafel District
Login to Send PM
EatDrinkColumbus wrote >>
Went out to Sunflower at about noon today for their dim sum. They had their dim sum carts out! It was awesome. It was like I was back home in Hawaii. Loud, raucous, food flowing from all directions.So is this place still flowing with dim sum on Sundays? The website didn't contain more than address and phone number.
Posted 2 years ago # -
DavidF
Elysium Fields
Login to Send PM
I went to Lee Garden recently and it was the closest I could find in Columbus to the Dim Sum I used to get in Hong Kong. There's a short article in the May issue of 614 magazine about that meal.
http://614columbus.com/magazine/05-01-2009/breakfast-lunch-dinner
Unfortunately, my favorite Dim Sum joint in Columbus, China First, has been closed for some time.
Posted 2 years ago #
You must log in to post.
Launched in August 2010, TheMetropreneur.com is a local online resource devoted to small business development and entrepreneurship. Its aim is to tell the stories of Central Ohio's business community, foster regional economic development and assist entrepreneurs with its resource-heavy focus.