Hei La Moon

83 Essex St, Boston
(617) 338-8813

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Jennifer Merryman

Great dim sum and cart service. The long rice noodle shrimp is excellent. Large space accommodates many tables.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Daniel Douglas

Great variety of dim sum. Best calamari around Chinatown. Always grey and delicious food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Harry Chartoff

Really tasty dim sum. The pork sweet buns are incredible, and the dumplings are great, too. Very traditional food, too.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Emanuel Espinoza

The food here was absolutely amazing. Everything we tried was fresh, flavorful, and exactly what you hope for in a great dim sum experience. Once the meal got going, the service was friendly and attentive, and the overall atmosphere was lively and enjoyable.

That said, the start of the meal was a bit slow. It took longer than expected for someone to come take our initial order for tea and soup, and we were waiting for a while before things really got moving.
The main issue we experienced was at the very end. We left what we felt was a fair $20 tip, but the staff member handling the bill told us it was “too low” and insisted we needed to leave at least $30. We ended up increasing it to $25, and even then she seemed unhappy. That felt uncomfortable and unnecessary.

We’ve traveled to China many times, where tipping isn’t part of the culture, and we believe tipping should be based on the service provided, not pressured or demanded. The food and experience were great, but the way the tip situation was handled left a negative impression at the end of an otherwise excellent meal.

Overall, we’d still recommend the restaurant for the quality of the food, but we hope management addresses how gratuities are communicated to customers.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Dan Bodansky

Dim sum very disappointing

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 4

Clarence Chan

Hong Konger here, came here with a friend for the first time with some expectations and thought it was pretty great for the price!

They roll out the trolley which is something we don’t really get anymore back home and i thought that was pretty cool!

Dim sum portions are pretty generous. Would come back next time!

even though the 阿婆s that work there seem to be in a bit of a rush, but hey, it’s part of the experience🤣

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Shashank Kumar

Amazing deals and amazing food. Can’t recommend it enough.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rk Perati

Great food, place gets busy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nathaniel Youndt

Awesome experience! The staff were extremely friendly and the food was delicious. The only reason for four stars is that we had absolutely no idea how much we were spending on our meal, haha. Would have been helpful to know how the pricing worked as we decided on things off the cart. Will definitely come back again and with a larger crew to enable trying more dishes.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Dayan Siri

First visit and enjoyed it. I wanted to try some dim sum. They had few vegitarian dim some choices but they had bunch of vegitarian options.
Good service and clean.
We went around 7pm on Sunday which wasn't too busy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Yen Nguyen

Double check your bill - they overcharged me. I ordered only a few dim sum trays and tea but total was high. I went back and ask them and they refunded me. It was hard to know correct total amount because they don’t list out each thing cost on the bill they just give you a total so be careful when you do dim sum. This is not the only restaurant did this to me.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

James Halkias

Delicious food but there was a staple in it! They took the meal off the bill, but was still disappointed.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Zoe T

Cantonese-mom approved dim sum, we always love to come here and order our favorite dumplings. The portions are decent and there’s a large selection to choose from. And you can’t skip the bubble tea it’s always delicious after a meal. I highly recommend a visit!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Dim Sum Selection, Traditional Dim Sum, Dumpling, Chinese Dishes, Turnip Cake

traderk Me

The yang zhou fried rice was ok, dim sum in generally has thick skin, too thick for taste. We had Siew Mai (pretty good), dumplings, yam ring, Liu sa Bao.. all was pretty mid tbh..

Liked the pu er tea though

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Markus Altmann

The different dumplings tasted very similar.
Not distinguishable from each other.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

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