Wen Dao Shi: Late night Dim sum dinner

December 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

I admit, I’m spoil. And I blame everything on Yanting. If I have not had better dim sum before, the ones at Wen Dao Shi might be consider pretty decent, but the truth is – they are not.

They need not be anyway, people come here for the nostaglic feeling of sitting by the roadside in the red district area. People come all the way here because there’s not much options when you suddenly have a craving for dim sum in the middle of the night. And people like it here because it’s unpretentious and affordable.

This is not a food review, it’s a night where old friends come together and have fun. I will tell you absolutely nothing about the food here, because on this night the food becomes secondary. But I can’t do that can I? You are after all here to find out more about the place, so here’s a few snippets about the dim sum:

For around ten dollars per person, we had quite a lot of food. There was the usual Siew mai & Har gau, the former was pretty decent while the latter did not impress. The skin of the shrimp dumpling cracked even before we picked it up.

You probably want to go with the fried stuff instead. The fried prawn dumpling that came with the mayo dip was pretty competent and the xiaolongbao was fairly average.

We had the steamed pork-ribs, and also the cheong fun. The rice roll came with a different type of sauce that I couldn’t make out, and there’s too little fillings inside.

If you are there, don’t bother to get the Char siew sou, the taste was completely flat – the puff lacked the crispy buttery flakes, and the char siew did not have the attributes to earn the rights to be inside the char siew sou. But I was surprised by the char siew bao, the buns were fluffy and soft, and it came pipping hot.

Since most places do not serve dim sum at night, and even for places that have dim sum for dinner, they close early and Wen Dao Shi is probably one of the few places that can satisfy your dim sum cravings in the middle of the night. While there are others who felt that the dim sum here is over-priced, on the contrary I thought that the pricing is pretty reasonable.

But the next time I have a dim sum craving? I will sulk, go to bed with an empty stomach, dream about it and wait till the next day for my favorite dim sum.

Wen Dao Shi
126 Sims Avenue
Tel: 6746 4757

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12 Responses to “Wen Dao Shi: Late night Dim sum dinner”

  1. zay
    December 3rd, 2009 @ 12:22 am

    try ho kee if u’re craving for dim sum for supper! =)

  2. Gavin
    December 3rd, 2009 @ 5:39 am

    No siew mai for dim sum? How can? :P

  3. Sihan
    December 3rd, 2009 @ 8:35 am

    yeh.. that should be the way. Don’t waste your stomach on sub-standard food! But then again, you really are quite spoilt when it comes to dim sum. Haha.

  4. Angeline
    December 3rd, 2009 @ 2:27 pm

    We tried wen dao shi a few months ago and swore that we will never go back again. LOL
    Dim sum is still the best at RC and taste paradise! :D

  5. J2Kfm
    December 3rd, 2009 @ 8:00 pm

    And I am spoilt by the dim sum restaurants in Ipoh, the classics – Foh San and Ming Court.
    Though breakfast only, no supper-supper business.

  6. ladyironchef
    December 4th, 2009 @ 8:53 am

    zay: ho kee is some sort like wen dao shi and red star, coffee shop kind? since you ask me to go there, it must be good? haha

    gavin: haha we did! but i didn’t show the photos : )

    sihan: Oh yeah i’m. aren’t you the same for desserts and everything else? hee

    angeline: if compare to places like rc and taste, they definitely cannot fight la, the dim sum at places like wen dao shi, red star are very coarse, unlike the really refined ones at restaurants

    j2kfm: okay you have to bring me there when i go Ipoh to visit : )

  7. Angeline
    December 4th, 2009 @ 9:54 am

    haha..true but there are some dim sum places at that area which is quite good. Except for wen dao shi of course :P

  8. alvina
    December 4th, 2009 @ 10:34 pm

    wen dao shi is better than ho kee. i’ve nv thought ho kee as a good dim sum place. no way…

  9. jo
    December 5th, 2009 @ 6:01 pm

    Go try Swee Choon at Jalan Besar. I like their dim sum and their la mien is made on the spot. Delicious and very reasonable.

  10. Shirin
    December 6th, 2009 @ 4:52 am

    hmmmm… dim sum!! (my favourite kind of food!) :P how’s aussie? xx

  11. ladyironchef
    December 6th, 2009 @ 3:12 pm

    angeline: like which places? haha

    alvina: what did you have at ho kee?

    jo: Swee choon, okay noted! thanks

    shirin: haha i’ve been eating so much in aussie!

  12. anom
    December 8th, 2009 @ 4:06 am

    WEN DAO SHI IS SHIT LA pls( affordable? no way man) .. swee choon is da place man, with prices cheaper than wen dao shi.. WEN DAO SHI OIL I TINK 1 DAY CHANGE ONCE ONLY. ONLY CHAR SIEW BAO IS NICE THERE. THE XIAOLONGBAO DONT EVEN HAVE SOUP ..

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