We realized that our hotel in Montreal is quite close to Chinatown which is only 5 blocks away, so we decided to head to Chinatown for a round of Dim Sum at La Maison Kam Fung (Fancy French name for a Chinese restaurant).
We read on yelp.com that people rave about this dim sum restaurant in the heart of Chinatown. So, we want to give it a try to see if the dim sum is really that good or is it just hype? We arrived at lunch hour at around 12:30pm. We saw a long line of people anxiously waiting to be seated. Wow! This place must be good huh?? We picked up a number and waited a good 20 minutes before we finally got seated at our table. Only after a few minutes, we were already surrounded by several 點心姐姐with their respective push carts (Food at a dim sum restaurant is usually “you pick what you want to eat” from a food cart pushed around by servers 點心姐姐). We wasted no time and immediately ordered our usual dishes:
1) 蝦腸 – Har Churn – Steamed Shrimp wrapped inside of rice noodle
2) 牛腸 – Gyu Churn – Steamed minced beef wrapped inside of rice noodle
3) 蝦餃 – Har Gow -- Steamed shrimp dumplings
4) 燒賣 – Siu Mai -- Steamed pork and shrimp dumplings
5) 鳳爪 – Fong Gyau -- Chicken Feet in black bean sauce
6) 鲜竹卷 – Seen Jook Guen – Steamed ground pork in soy bean wrap
蝦腸 was decent with its thin rice noodle wrap and fresh taste shrimps. 牛腸 wasn’t as good as the 蝦腸, but still a mediocre dish to have. 蝦餃 was the best dish of the day. The shrimp tasted pretty fresh and was not over steamed. However, the food started to go downhill from here! Our favorite Siu Mai turned out to be four pieces of over-streamed, extra-dry pork mixed with overcooked shrimp! Definitely one of the worst ones we have had in years!!! Chicken feet was another disappointment. When they are cooked properly, the meat and skin should be easily torn apart. However, that is not the case here. It’s almost as if we were chewing a piece of rubber / eraser. We were not able to tear apart the skin and the meat. We decided to go for another dish, which was 鲜竹卷. We should not have ordered that one either. The dish looked as if it was prepared at 6:00am in the morning and has been sitting on the push cart for several hours! It was bad! So, check please!!
I am not quite sure why this dim sum is considered as “The Best Dim Sum in Montreal”? We ordered six dishes and there was only one decent dish. Maybe we went on an “off” day where the dim sum master chef took a day off? It was definitely not worth the 20 minutes wait. We should have gone downstairs to the HK style roasted duck cafe to order a roasted duck soup noodle instead!!
HOKAT Rating:
75/100
Address:
1111 Rue Saint-Urbain Montreal, QC H2Z 1Y6.
(514) 878-2888
http://www.restaurantlamaisonkamfung.com/
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