Ah Yat Harbour View

There is nobody in the town who doesn't know about "Ah Yat". The famous chef Mr. Yeung (楊貫一) is the creator of the internationally renowned dish "Ah Yat Abalone", and the master chef at the Forum, one of the most prominent Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong.

However, all these by him come with a big price tag, and his new restaurant sounds to take a little different road to attract more audience. Ah Yat Harbour View is on the top floor of iSquare in TST, having a spectacular 270-degree view overlooking the Victoria Harbour. The food is not expensive at all, but has the same high standard from Ah Yat.

The menu is not huge, and some of the typical traditional dim sum are also missing. However, most of them are quite affordable, making this restaurant like an entry place for the whole Ah Yat series. Of course, you can still order an abalone or other high-end food for lunch, but not for me.

The dim sum was overall okay, but not surprising except this one above, the shrimp dumplings (har gow). It was simple but amazingly well done with chewy translucent wrapper and big shrimps. No wonder it was named "Ah Yat Signature Har Gow".

The next dish, Homemade Sausage Rolls, was delicious too. It was not completely homemade, but the pork was minced by hand not machine. Wrapped by a crispy outer layer, the meat was mixed with shredded vegetable, forming a nice combination of textures.

Not many places can do the molten custard buns right, but this place did a good job.

Then we had these "volcano buns", named because of their look. These are actually mini version of the Mexican buns (Hong Kong style) with chopped roasted pork inside. They were not bad at all but took more than 30 minutes to arrive on the table.

Originally they missed our order, but then they said these buns were not easy to make and the chefs were still working hard on them after 20 minutes. We were a little impatient but seeing the other tables were also waiting, we didn't really make a big deal out of this.

Most of the items on the menu were ordinary dim sum you can find in other Chinese restaurants, but making the ordinary extraordinary is the hardest cookery, and the chefs here did surprise us. All the food on our table look typical but tasted very good. The wonderful harbour view did not steal the spotlight, and so you can imagine how good the food is. Be sure to make a reservation before going, as this place is already very popular!