It feels like Hong Kong restaurants are all homemade and not frozen.You can eat shredded radish in radish cake?Shrimp dumplings and siomai are both thin-skinned and elastic with fillings~The beef louvers are very fresh but it takes a long time to chew hahaThe rice rolls are also delicious and the portions are large.Maybe we left the crispy quicksand buns too long before eating them, and the fillings were a bit solid. They were very filling and very filling after eating them.The one that I'm a little bit offended about is the fried taro dumplings. The filling is a bit boring and the taro paste doesn't feel like much seasoning, but it's very crispy.The wait was really long at 11 a.m. on Sunday ? An hour at least. You may have to arrive early to wait for a table on weekends
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Qianfan Chen
Best Dim Sum place in the Greater Boston Area. Slightly better than Ming's seafood, much better than average Dim Sum places in
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hilary D
We always go here for dim sum on weekends, however, this time we noticed absurd table assignment, the lady who was in charge of assigning table kept ignoring us, or other small parties, didn’t provide option for joint seating either, they only prioritized bigger groups, eg, larger than 4ppl, or ppl who came with non Chinese ethnicity, this is not acceptable to me. Will not go here anymore.Parking: No enough parking spot on site. Only bet on your luck
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Ron Young
these pictures highlight the individual portions of seafood and rice noodles served on clam shells in a dish selected by our hosts. So I did not rate service nor cost.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
tony bonaiuto
Excellent Chinese restaurant with authentic Chinese food. Dim sum was delicious also. My Chinese friend whom I invited goes there all the time. It is the most popular Chinese restaurant in Malden. Service very good too!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
ChauChyi Tai
Dim Sam lunch is the best in Boston area. Consistently. If they claim no. 2, there is no no. 1 yet. No comment for dinner.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Florence K.
Hands down one of the best dim sum place in Boston. There is also a parking lot for those driving. Service is a bit slow but it's only because they are so busy. The food we ordered came so quickly as well!
Good food. The chicken feet are awesome. All in all very good experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Custard
Kun M.
Definitely go if you want dim sum and you are north of downtown. That being said, it's a typical bustling dim sum operation in terms of food and ambience. Nothing fancy. Very convenient to have a good, authentic dim sum without having to drive to or south of Chinatown. For people accustomed to regular restaurants, service may seem hard to get, but it's actually faster and more attentive here than average for this kind of restaurant. Staff is very good, and we had an older guy covering our table who was excellent. Plenty of help around, though, as usual in a dim sum restaurant, you need to flag it down. But I found they were watching out for customers in need of service and provided it with a sense of urgency and responsibility. One factor in timing is that although you order off a menu and a cart comes to you with your order, the kitchen still works like a regular dim sum restaurant in that it makes dishes in batches. If what you ordered is sold out, you will need to wait for the next batch. Same is true in a regular dim sum restaurant. Here, they bring you your cart quickly with what is available and then will send other dishes from your order as those become available. Food tasted very good. People will find favorites on the menu and fault with other items, but nothing I tried was less than very good. My one request would be to get the food to the table warmer. Of course, fresh batches came out nice and hot. But many of the standard "first cart" items were not as warm as I would have preferred. Maybe it's just me.
The foods are really average. The texture of the beef balls are really fluffy. The taste is ok. All other dim sums are about the same as other dim sum restaurants. The service is really not that great. I originally placed my order for takeout thinking that there would be a long wait. However the waiter told me to have a seat and eat at the restaurant. I agreed with him. We sat down and waited for at least another five minutes without any waitress serving us. The ambience is ok. We sat near the exit door. We were able to get a seat as I was waiting for my takeout.
Mike F.
This is the 9th place I have gone to for Dim Sum in the greater Boston area. In short, I would not go back. The food was mediocre but the service was awful. The crab claws were ice cold. We ordered a mussel dish which was not available until 11:30am (we were there at 10am) and we were charged for it but never got the dish... All in all, not worth the trip or the effort. If you are going for Dim Sum in Malden, Go to Ming's Seafood.
Daniel B.
Like all dim sum spots, the kitchen at Sun Kong excels at some dishes while others fell a little flat. I'm tempted to give Sun Kong five stars on the sheer excellence of their tofu pudding. It can also be called Douhua, Doufuhua, or a long list of other names. Regardless of its name, this is one of my favorite dim sum treats, and it can be surprisingly difficult to find... especially in the midwest. Here, the server masterfully scooped out large silky petals from the cauldron of steaming hot custardy tofu into waiting bowls. It was gorgeous. On the flip side the char siu pork that filled the steamed and baked pork buns was on the mushy side. My kids love pork buns, but on future visits we will skip these entirely. But that is fine, because there were so many other tasty treats available. The dark horse was the Chau Chau Style Dumpling. These thicker skinned steamed dumplings were a textural delight, and definitely earned a spot on the table for a return trip, as did the Fried Dough Rice Rolls and Lotus Leaf Sticky Rice with Chicken. My pro tip, like all good dim sum places, is to arrive early. And by early, I mean when they open. Parking is tight, but we were able to walk right in and grab a table without any wait. That meant, we could relax with our first pot of tea and consider which plates we would select on the paper menu. I did have to ask about the tofu pudding as we had received everything from our original order, and were sitting around patiently waiting for this important dish to arrive. It just takes time to make, and the staff did a fine job at keeping our teapot filled until the cauldron was ready. Which, could be an argument for arriving a little later in the morning, but that comes with a different set of challenges. So glad to have made a stop into Sun Kong and look forward to exploring more of their menu down the road.
Spekrgrl Sounds
Wonderful food and very large portions. Also, very friendly staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings
Alyanna T.
My party of seven got dim sum - TASTE: 4/5 - decent spot. Highlights included classics like pork siu mai, turnip cake, and roast pork w cilantro rice rolls TEXTURE: 4/5 - wish the fried dough in the fried dough rice rolls was more fresh. Loved the crab claw: crispy on the outside, tender on the inside PRICE: 4/5 - each of us ended up paying $33 SERVING SIZE: 4/5 - good for lunch/brunch. There are a few more items, like salt and pepper squid, available 11am onward SERVICE: 4/5 - walked in at 10am on a Saturday and there were still plenty of tables open; our entire group hadn't arrived yet, but we were seated at a large table right away. We ordered from the dim sum menu; I think they had carts pre-covid. Some of the items that we ordered weren't served, but the food that was delivered to our table/what we paid for was plenty ATMOSPHERE: 4/5 - standard spot w more room than expected PARKING: 5/5 - Sun Kong has their own parking lot, though only ~20 spots
It feels like Hong Kong restaurants are all homemade and not frozen.You can eat shredded radish in radish cake?Shrimp dumplings and siomai are both thin-skinned and elastic with fillings~The beef louvers are very fresh but it takes a long time to chew hahaThe rice rolls are also delicious and the portions are large.Maybe we left the crispy quicksand buns too long before eating them, and the fillings were a bit solid. They were very filling and very filling after eating them.The one that I'm a little bit offended about is the fried taro dumplings. The filling is a bit boring and the taro paste doesn't feel like much seasoning, but it's very crispy.The wait was really long at 11 a.m. on Sunday ? An hour at least. You may have to arrive early to wait for a table on weekends
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best Dim Sum place in the Greater Boston Area. Slightly better than Ming's seafood, much better than average Dim Sum places in
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We always go here for dim sum on weekends, however, this time we noticed absurd table assignment, the lady who was in charge of assigning table kept ignoring us, or other small parties, didn’t provide option for joint seating either, they only prioritized bigger groups, eg, larger than 4ppl, or ppl who came with non Chinese ethnicity, this is not acceptable to me. Will not go here anymore.Parking: No enough parking spot on site. Only bet on your luck
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
these pictures highlight the individual portions of seafood and rice noodles served on clam shells in a dish selected by our hosts. So I did not rate service nor cost.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Excellent Chinese restaurant with authentic Chinese food. Dim sum was delicious also. My Chinese friend whom I invited goes there all the time. It is the most popular Chinese restaurant in Malden. Service very good too!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dim Sam lunch is the best in Boston area. Consistently. If they claim no. 2, there is no no. 1 yet. No comment for dinner.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Hands down one of the best dim sum place in Boston. There is also a parking lot for those driving. Service is a bit slow but it's only because they are so busy. The food we ordered came so quickly as well!
Such an amazing restaurant and great
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings, Rolls, Crab Rangoon, Chicken Fingers
Good food. The chicken feet are awesome. All in all very good experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Custard
Definitely go if you want dim sum and you are north of downtown. That being said, it's a typical bustling dim sum operation in terms of food and ambience. Nothing fancy. Very convenient to have a good, authentic dim sum without having to drive to or south of Chinatown. For people accustomed to regular restaurants, service may seem hard to get, but it's actually faster and more attentive here than average for this kind of restaurant. Staff is very good, and we had an older guy covering our table who was excellent. Plenty of help around, though, as usual in a dim sum restaurant, you need to flag it down. But I found they were watching out for customers in need of service and provided it with a sense of urgency and responsibility. One factor in timing is that although you order off a menu and a cart comes to you with your order, the kitchen still works like a regular dim sum restaurant in that it makes dishes in batches. If what you ordered is sold out, you will need to wait for the next batch. Same is true in a regular dim sum restaurant. Here, they bring you your cart quickly with what is available and then will send other dishes from your order as those become available. Food tasted very good. People will find favorites on the menu and fault with other items, but nothing I tried was less than very good. My one request would be to get the food to the table warmer. Of course, fresh batches came out nice and hot. But many of the standard "first cart" items were not as warm as I would have preferred. Maybe it's just me.
Restaurantji Recommends
The foods are really average. The texture of the beef balls are really fluffy. The taste is ok. All other dim sums are about the same as other dim sum restaurants. The service is really not that great. I originally placed my order for takeout thinking that there would be a long wait. However the waiter told me to have a seat and eat at the restaurant. I agreed with him. We sat down and waited for at least another five minutes without any waitress serving us. The ambience is ok. We sat near the exit door. We were able to get a seat as I was waiting for my takeout.
This is the 9th place I have gone to for Dim Sum in the greater Boston area. In short, I would not go back. The food was mediocre but the service was awful. The crab claws were ice cold. We ordered a mussel dish which was not available until 11:30am (we were there at 10am) and we were charged for it but never got the dish... All in all, not worth the trip or the effort. If you are going for Dim Sum in Malden, Go to Ming's Seafood.
Like all dim sum spots, the kitchen at Sun Kong excels at some dishes while others fell a little flat. I'm tempted to give Sun Kong five stars on the sheer excellence of their tofu pudding. It can also be called Douhua, Doufuhua, or a long list of other names. Regardless of its name, this is one of my favorite dim sum treats, and it can be surprisingly difficult to find... especially in the midwest. Here, the server masterfully scooped out large silky petals from the cauldron of steaming hot custardy tofu into waiting bowls. It was gorgeous. On the flip side the char siu pork that filled the steamed and baked pork buns was on the mushy side. My kids love pork buns, but on future visits we will skip these entirely. But that is fine, because there were so many other tasty treats available. The dark horse was the Chau Chau Style Dumpling. These thicker skinned steamed dumplings were a textural delight, and definitely earned a spot on the table for a return trip, as did the Fried Dough Rice Rolls and Lotus Leaf Sticky Rice with Chicken. My pro tip, like all good dim sum places, is to arrive early. And by early, I mean when they open. Parking is tight, but we were able to walk right in and grab a table without any wait. That meant, we could relax with our first pot of tea and consider which plates we would select on the paper menu. I did have to ask about the tofu pudding as we had received everything from our original order, and were sitting around patiently waiting for this important dish to arrive. It just takes time to make, and the staff did a fine job at keeping our teapot filled until the cauldron was ready. Which, could be an argument for arriving a little later in the morning, but that comes with a different set of challenges. So glad to have made a stop into Sun Kong and look forward to exploring more of their menu down the road.
Wonderful food and very large portions. Also, very friendly staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings
My party of seven got dim sum - TASTE: 4/5 - decent spot. Highlights included classics like pork siu mai, turnip cake, and roast pork w cilantro rice rolls TEXTURE: 4/5 - wish the fried dough in the fried dough rice rolls was more fresh. Loved the crab claw: crispy on the outside, tender on the inside PRICE: 4/5 - each of us ended up paying $33 SERVING SIZE: 4/5 - good for lunch/brunch. There are a few more items, like salt and pepper squid, available 11am onward SERVICE: 4/5 - walked in at 10am on a Saturday and there were still plenty of tables open; our entire group hadn't arrived yet, but we were seated at a large table right away. We ordered from the dim sum menu; I think they had carts pre-covid. Some of the items that we ordered weren't served, but the food that was delivered to our table/what we paid for was plenty ATMOSPHERE: 4/5 - standard spot w more room than expected PARKING: 5/5 - Sun Kong has their own parking lot, though only ~20 spots