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Tsui Woo Seafood Restaurant - CLOSED
Category: Restaurants Chinese Dim Sum Dim Sum [Edit]
2461 Nanaimo StreetVancouver, BC V5N 5E5
Neighbourhoods: Grandview-Woodlands, Hastings-Sunrise
(604) 258-9010
- Price Range:
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$$
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
7 reviews for Tsui Woo Seafood Restaurant
7 reviews in English
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Review from Shannon S.
Burnaby, BC
4/12/2012
LOVE TSUI WOO!!
I go here pretty much every Saturday! The ladies now say "see you next saturday" lol
Honestly the only dim sum I go to now. I have never gotten sick and I consistently get the same great dishes over and over.
Now when I have dim sum its all about the seafood. My key dishes are:
Spicy Green Beans- little heat, cooked perfectly every time. I dream about these beans lol
Bean Curd and Mushrooms- crispy outside soft inside, 2 differnt types of mushrooms and baby bok choi yummmm
Prawn and Corn Dumplings- thin casing and super flavorful inside.
Deef fried spicy squid- always good, cooked right and slurp!
Rice rolls with chinese donut- has this peanut sauce on the side- such a good combo!!
Prawn and garlic spring roll- deep fried love
shrimp rice rolls- great sweet sauce
curry squid- always steamed right and good sauce
mango pudding for dessert- cute little fish mold and extra milk yum
cheap cheap cheap! if I go and I am good, 2 of us can have 3 dishes and walk out $20 bill including good tip. when a few of us and we order all stapes still only roughly $40.
Staff is friendly, its nice to have the staff joke around with you and love when you try to impress them with some chinese.
sure the restaurant is a bit outdated, crowded and probaly not the cleanest. but always good food and frendly staff!!
always going back here :) -
Review from Dani C.
4/10/2012
While everyone else who reviewed here came for dim sum, I came for dinner. The dinner was meh, but that wasn't the issue. More on that later.
We had king crab legs, some pork/taro soup, Portuguese-style rice in king crab shell, salted fish thing (I have no idea what it's called), an actual fish, beef short-rib, goose with taro, noodles, and baked tapioca pudding with red bean for dessert.
I didn't have the king crab legs due to some semi-allergy with the way it's prepared (I get nauseous from eating it for some reason), but the portion looked very small despite bringing two plates. Apparently it was suppose to be 14 pounds, but it didn't look 14 pounds. I didn't have the soup itself, but I did have the pork. Very very dry and dipping it in soy sauce didn't help. The rice hardly had any crab meat in it or even anything else for that matter. I didn't eat either fish. Have a very low tolerance for salted fish and I didn't feel like having the fish fish. The beef short-rib was one of the few things I semi-liked. It was marinated well, but had too much seasonings. Goose was meh. Disliked the thick sauce that covered it and the meat was very chewy. Noodles was ok. It was thin noodles with crab meat sauce, but it wasn't anything special. The baked tapioca pudding was pretty bad. The only good thing was the crust. The pudding itself was too chewy and the red bean was awful.
I have no idea how much it was because it was paid by someone else, but if it's cheap like the dim sum, the dinner was probably cheaper than most places.
However, I will not go back unless I have to because not too long after I got home, I became very nauseous and later threw up. My parents didn't throw up which meant that it was most likely the tapioca pudding that made me throw up twice since they didn't eat it, but they did have a tummy ache. Honestly I'm not surprised. The restaurant itself is...not clean. I haven't seen the kitchen, but I wouldn't be surprised it'd be something that would freak out a health inspector.
Parking blows. It's very small with only a few stalls available and the distance between the stalls and the restaurant is so small, you're gonna have trouble parking. Luckily, I didn't have to drive. Can't really comment on the service since I didn't interact with any of the waitresses.
Overall, not a good experience, especially for my stomach x_x;Listed in: Food!
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Review from Janice F.
2/6/2012
$2.50 dim sum!! Cheap, ghetto, greasy. This place is beside Bon's Off Broadway.
The hits: Prawn and chive dumpling, the rice wrap chinese donuts, the sponge cake (soooo retro! childhood flashbacks), siu mai har gow are both decent.
Don't get the chicken wings, they are awful - tastes like old oil. -
Review from Benson H.
Vancouver, BC
2/29/2012
Gone are the days of $2.50/plate for Dim Sum. Or so I thought.
This place is right next to Bon's. If you can handle the grease over at Bon's, this place next door is surely a better alternative as $2.50 dim sum will be slightly greasy but hey, it's still very edible.
So if the dim sum is very edible at unbeatable price, be prepared to fight crowds and long waits. Just make sure you get your name on the waiting list as it can get pretty frantic on weekends. OR do take out dim sum. May not be as hot and fresh out the kitchen, but sure as heck is better than the weekend crowds.
Their variety is also sufficient as I've been to some budget dim sum joints but they only have half the menu of a regular dim sum restaurant. Whereas this is not the case. They even have chives/prawn dumplings. And their pork spare ribs actually have some meat on them!
Service is not bad considering they're doing their best but again, they're a budget and family style operation. They may need a reminder if you want some extra condiments/water. The only thing is the restaurant lay-out is kind of strange - as if rooms were added on. So there are corners/rooms where you will not get noticed easily and definitely an extra effort is needed to get their attention.
Not a place to bring your relatives or in-laws, but for friends especially on the Vancouver east-side, this place is unbeatable at the price. Based on the price, I would give it 4 stars! -
Review from Edward L.
Wow, this is definitely one of the more ghetto dim sum places in town. Came here on a tip and it definitely delivered.
Parking is a bit lacking as there are a whopping 8 spots or so out front, and the side streets are woefully packed. You may have to walk a block or two.
The inside of the restaurant is diiiirty and pretty beaten up. The layout of the restaurant is very awkward, with 1 (not straight at all) path between the tables to the second section, which also requires a curious step down. We were seated promptly at in the VIP room at a large table.. only to have 2 random strangers also assigned to our table. Awesome!
My friend from out of town asked for a knife and fork, and the waitress laughed at her too. Yup, we have a winner here.
The dim sum here is very cheap, at $2.50 a dish. Even the shrimp rolls were only $2.95. This makes me very happy. The mango pudding is molded into 3 little fishies.
Everything else here is standard fare, but the food wasn't bad at all. My only complaint was that certain dishes fell through the cracks, and came only about 1h late (even after bugging the staff several times). With that said, the value can't be beat.
We left the place giggling about the crappy service and the total ghettoness of the place. I will be back. -
Review from Shino O.
11/8/2010 2 photos
Dim Sum here is a great value. There are more than 100 items on the menu, and about 50 of them are priced under $2.50. Five of us ate till we dropped, and we paid only $14 each for a nearly 2-hour long lunch... Amazing deal.
[Best stuff]
Each item is HUGE! One of the best dishes is the pork shumai dumplings. I also loved the spareribs with black bean sauce, prawn & corn dumplings, and crystal prawn dumplings.
[Ambiance]
My friend Kathleen, a Vancouver local, took us to this popular lunch destination. When we walked in, the place was brimming with Asian customers talking lively in Chinese, like fireworks all over the place, around many huge round tables. Good for groups, definitely. As I told one of the wait staff the number of my party, five, she handed me an orange menu, which turned out to be an ordering sheet. It's in Chinese and in English. Great!
[Things I love]
Some things are lost in translation here, in a good way :) When they say "dumpling" in English, it should be translated in at least three ways: translucent and paper-thin dumpling, puffy and snack-like dumpling, and smooth-sticky-heavy skin dumpling. They could be made of flour, or rice, or something else. The combo of different skin types and ingredients is quite a delightful discovery.
[Extra]
They have some Shanghai-style dishes. The shanghai noodles were excellent! The soup dumplings (xiao long bao) were smaller and simpler than those of Shanghai River. Apparently the restaurant doesn't serve soy sauce. I asked for some, and the server pointed at a small plate of vinegar on the table. I decided to go the truly local way. No sticky salty soy sauce. Yum! -
Review from Michael C.
Vancouver, BC
1/31/2011 3 Check-ins Here
My friends and I frequent here quite often because it's decent dim sum for a cheap price. It does get packed here by noon, but we rarely need to line up for seats. They serve dim sum here till 3pm if you can't wake up early enough for it haha.
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