Ton Kiang Restaurant

No heart at all.. DIM SUM, which means "small heart, " is at the heart of this review. My mother, my teen son and I were having dim sum at about 10:30 AM on Sat, Sept. 4, 2010. Suddenly, my son developed hives all over his face and neck. We assumed that it was something that he ate (he hadn't eaten anything that day until the restaurant). I rushed him to a drugstore for benadryl. After taking it, we returned to the restaurant. I approached the owner--he is the one who stands at the cashier area--and told him I'm a frequent visitor to his restaurant. I told him what happened and asked him about the ingredients because it would be good to have some idea of the allergen, e.g. was it the shrimp, do they use oyster sauce, do they put crab meat in some of the diim sum items? He seemed put off but answered my questions. He didn't ask exactly which dishes we ordered, which could easily be done by checking our bill. (I had to ask him to look at our bill to see what dishes we ate.) I was shocked that he never expressed any concern about my son, and even though I asked him to talk with him directly about what he might've eaten (my son was sitting with my mother in a booth), he refused to leave the cashier area. He said, "he can come to talk to me."

He didn't show a shred of concern about the health and welfare of a customer. We will never return to this restaurant and I will be sure to share this story with friends and colleagues. The literal translation of dim sum is "small heart." In this case, they demonstrated their lack of any heart at all.…

Beest Dim Sum. The best Dim Sum I have had. It was as great as Dim Dum at the Sheraton Towers & Hotel in Hong Kong. The food was fresh and delicious. Wait for an upstairs seat as downstairs looked crammed. Service was great. Highly recommend this place.…

pricy, right?. We ordered crispy whole fried fish that costed $20.  Wow, pricy, right? Also ordered crispy fried skinny noodles with vegetables, white rice (and we received a very stingy portion), sizzling rice vegetarian soup (big mistake, seafood version is loads better), and egg custard tarts.  They gave 3 tarts per order, but by goodness were they tiny!  3 tarts combined is still less and smaller than 1 normal sized tart.

Our bill was disproportionally larger than expected from a Chinese restaurant.  We could have eaten Japanese with top of the line sushi at those rates.  An hour later, we were hungry again.…

Last night's dinner was a stand-out. Miraculously!. I've eaten here several times, but last night's dinner was a stand-out. Miraculously! We ordered Sizzling Rice Soup, deep fried taro and potsticker dim sum, a fried noodle dish with veggies and roast pork, white rice, and a mushroom with okra dish.

All were very good! A very good thing too is that a lot of the food was quite al dente, especially the vegetables, so you don't get the feeling the stuff has been sitting around for a while.…