Richmond has some very good restaurants for hotpot. Garden City Hotpot has been operating for quite some time in Richmond has had earn my excellence reputation. People who hasn't try their dimsum for lunch should give a try. Their lunch dimsum menu has a variety selection and definitely worth a try to many food lovers. read more

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Fresh beef on Thursday or join their group chat for diff time Tried the salty egg congee base Geoduck good read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

First time here was on October 8, 2022. I was here with a group of 9, reserved in advance by calling them (their website shows a menu and online ordering for takeout, but no table reservation option). I went again later with my fiance (just the two of us) without a reservation on a Friday night at 7pm, no problems getting seated at all. First time here - great service. They didn't charge a service charge even with a reservation for 9 (via phone) - which is unheard of for most restaurants. Overall, for 9 people, it came out to $58.44/person (USD) after tax and tip. Food: Insanity. One of the best meals of my life. Great quality hotpot, not much to complain about. Ambience: it's a Chinese (Mandarin) music playlist. This is a Chinese restaurant. What did you honestly expect? From my second visit (Feb 2024) - promptly seated, 2 people, no reservation. Parking lot is attached to the plaza that garden city hot pot is in. The actual restaurant is on the first floor - go through the double doors in the attached parking lot, it's on the right. Parking lot itself has narrow spots - if you're driving an SUV or sedan it's fine, but a bigger minivan or pickup truck may struggle. There is street parking across the street from the plaza - and even on a Friday (I went again with two people, no reservation), it's not that busy (this surprised me - every hotpot place in Burnaby was full until 11pm). For two people it was $144 CAD after tax and tip. I'm so full leaving that I'm almost delirious. The meat quality is so good! read more

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Dim sum was ok. Hot pot was much better. Good selection. But a bit pricey. Party of 4 adults and 1 child was $200 for lunch.

Great experience and super authentic! I'm from the states, so rule of thumb is if all the customers match the ethnicity of the restaurant you know it's going to be 100% on point. Plenty of selection for meats and veggies. Pretty clean place too, chill vibe, not super fancy inside but the authenticity is definitely there. Cozy seating areas as well. All the broths and meats choices were amazing and everything came super fast. Our friends recommended this place as would definitely recommend to anyone else visiting. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

Excellent service, transparent pricing, delicious seafood porridge base soup hotpot! The four varieties of meatballs is my favorite, but the crisp carp is a disappointment. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

Really good restaurant! Refresh and decent! We came from California and it was in our list. It won't let you down. read more

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One of the original "Hot Pot" restaurant in Richmond, before the Hot Pot craze started to spread throughout the Greater Vancouver Region! Garden City Hot Pot is Hong Kong / Cantonese Style Hot Pot that is different from the late comer to Vancouver i.e. Szechuan Style ( which is predominantly spicy and heavily uses the Szechuan Peppercorn for the numbing sensation ). I have been here for over 15 yrs. but never given the restaurant a review, since I am more active with Yelp now, I thought its time! First off, service here is always great, especially when you compare it to other Chinese Restaurants, our favourite Server, Carol has been here for ages, and we are always happy to see her, together with Quincy & Gary all the familiar faces! Dim Sum is freshly steamed after your put in your order, so as to ensure freshness, another favourite is their Congee Hot Pot, this is unique to this restaurant as you get to cook your own congee right at your table! Their latest Congee Hot Pot is the HK Style Sampan Congee, it comes with Scallops, Prawns, Boneless Fish Fillets, Geoduck, Pork Rind, Minced Beef with Vermicelli, Sliced Lettuce etc. This whole order is actually enough for 4 people! I also have to mention that their Hot Pot is also very outstanding especially with all the fresh seafood on the menu and my personal favourite is their house made meat balls! ( they have beef, pork, shrimp, octopus etc. ). So if you want something different other then just plain Dim Sum, try Garden City Hot Pot to expand your choices! read more

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There is nothing better than fantastic hot pot after a day in the frigid cold. I recommend the simple chicken broth for the soup as it just tastes more and more flavorful as you cook it down and cook all your food in it. It held up a lot better than the thousand egg and parsley soup we had on the other side. Before the food comes, they come around with a cart and ask you how you want your sauce. I like soy with the peanut sauce, the spicy sauce, sliced green hot peppers, minced ginger, a bit of minced garlic, and cilantro. The geoduck here is just fresh as could be, perfect in my opinion raw eaten like sushi with just a dab of wasabi but can also be cooked. It's crazy expensive though. They'll cook the head of it in a green onion and garlic fry which is just luscious and perfectly fried and divine truly. The oysters were juicy and really divine. The fatty beef is out of this world, among the best beef I've ever had. Love the fish stuffed fried tofu which is just packed with umami goodness. Watercress and vermicelli are great to add freshness and soak up the delicious soup broth towards the end. The only things I would skip are the tilapia which wasn't that great last time and the fatty pork which is just tasteless. For complimentary drinks you can't go wrong with the sweetened chrysanthemum tea either hot or cold, as well as the more vinegary plum juice. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

The name of the restaurant maybe confuse a lot of people. They not only have hotpot but they also have pretty good dim sum and congee. I strongly recommend their pork bun and congee. Bring at least 4 people so you can share the deluxe seafood congee(it's such a good deal) the pork bun looked but it tasted so good. The outside was slightly sweet like a dessert but the filling was meaty and creamy pork. read more

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We are so happy to have found this awesome hot pot/dim sum restaurant in Richmond! I was hesitant about going somewhere that didn't specialize in a certain thing, but this place does both really well. We arrived around 2pm which was an hour from their afternoon break at 3pm. I think they give you a 10% discount or something because somehow we got a discount! Anyway, we ordered four dishes off the dim sum menu: shrimp dumpling, siu mai, pork ribs and the rice roll. The siu mai was really huge but really delicious. The rice roll was also pretty tasty with the dipping sauce they give you. Hot pot was really the stand out here - their sauces are delicious and they make it for you too! Get everything in it even with the cilantro and green onions. We got half chicken broth and half Szechuan spicy broth. The chicken broth was plain but good. The Szechuan broth was quite numbing and I only tried a few bites. The prices seem really high at first, but they're fairly huge portions! We ordered fish balls, bean curd, two plates of meat (beef and pork), Japanese udon and a combo plate of two vegetables. It was definitely more than enough for four people. I think the total was about $30 Canadian dollars in the end which was a pretty great deal for all the food we ate. Service was also really quick and helpful too. Luckily I read Chinese so I can order from their dim sum menu, you'll need to ask for help if you're a non-Chinese reader and want to order dim sum. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Dim sum and hot pot - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

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Wonderful atmosphere great food and friendly staff. We had a wonderful time at your restaurant

Too bad we went for the hot pot and not the dim sum. The whole experience was disappointing. First of all, there is a mandatory tea charge regardless if you drink tea or not. They have a wide variety of high quality teas, and the tea charge is higher than what you usually find at a Chinese restaurant. Sadly, their wide variety did not include de-caffeinated tea. The staff does not speak English well, which also seemed to be a barrier at times. I'm Japanese and my Chinese travel companion does not speak any of the Chinese dialects, so communication was strained. The waitress seemed annoyed that we asked for the hot pot menu, that was after the 5 minutes it took to try to communicate to her that we wanted hot pot and not dim sum. Once we got the hot pot menu, we had sticker shock. Everything was incredibly expensive. Maybe we are just used to the usual prices and places we have in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles. They did have a nice variety of different meats and vegetables. I liked the different levels of spicy that you could choose from. Unfortunately after we received our food, the wait staff basically disappeared. We did have a nice intimate booth in the corner, but several times we needed to chase down the waitress or other wait staff for assistance. After quite a while, we were gladly able to leave this place with no intentions to ever return. read more

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Food is always fresh, and friendly service Will 100% recommend. They have great congee hot pot for lunch and seafood hotpot for dinner. Always the fine option read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Pepper salted tofu - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

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This place is no joke, real hot pot and all the time. I came here with a group of out of towners who were hungry and too picky to go anywhere else where they couldn't cook the food themselves. Our local guide had tried this place a few years earlier promising there was an All-You-Can-Eat (AYCE) option only to find out they had discontinued it only a week earlier. The place itself is deceivingly large. It didn't seem like a mega Dim Sum tea house but rather a medium sized restaurant with ample seating. The tables all had some sort of a pot burner and different setups within every table depending on group size. Our round table's center piece was a large pot divided in two sections for meats and veggies. The ingredients given to us were fresh and hearty. Our meats were served thinly sliced on a plate and the veggies were replenished each time we cooked it to death. I wish they provided us with raw eggs for the sauce and it was a pain having to flag down service each time we needed something. In the end the price was right and it was a nice break from the regular Chinese food scene that is all over this section of Richmond. read more

There is another hot pot restaurant in Richmond. It located on Garden City and McKim Way almost for a decade. I had really BAD experience with my friends and family when we ate here. They ALL got credit card info stolen, therefore, we didn't return for last couple years! My colleagues suggested to go there for lunch and I didn't mind to give them a try. In addition, we agree to pay in CASH instead of credit card and it should be safe. They served tea per cup per person, you can pick the tea leaf and enjoy your own flavour. Check out the picture of chrysanthemum and black tea. The dim sims were pretty good and congee was excellent. Steamed radish cake - a lot of radish and tasty Pot of fish congee - live fish in boiling hot congee, it tasted very fresh. Stuffed egg plants and tofu with shrimp paste - it's huge the sauce was a bit salty. Steamed shrimp dumping - Pretty standard Steamed Chiu Chow style dumpling - the skin was so thick and sticky. Deep fried Squid legs - So crispy and delicious Steamed pork dumpling - Fatty pork and juicy read more

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Cantonese style hotpot. Quality and thick cut meat. Fresh ingredients and very nice service. I will say it's a bit more pricey than average restaurants but it's very worth it for the value. Soup base and sauce bar are great! read more

We like this hot pot place so much and everytime we visit we order a lot (recommend premium beef and fresh sea cucumber) so averagely each time it costs us $50 per person after taxes and tips. The servers are nice and attentive. They also have very good chrysanthemum tea, complimentary. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

One word: phenomenal! I wish they had this restaurant back home in California. You know the food is gonna be authentic when 100% of the diners are all Chinese people and the menu is translated in Chinese to english for you. Nothing is better than dim sum or hot pot after a night of drinking.... and this place serves both. Surpisingly, they do both very well! The warm soup really balances with the greasier dim sum dishes. The dim sum here is as good as it is in San Francisco (which is saying a lot because SF is the best rated Chinatown in the USA). The only dish I didn't like was the turnip cake, because it's not like the usual crispy pan fried turnip cake I get at dimsum. The chicken feet sauce isn't as sweet as I'm accustomed to either. The hot pot is great. The meat and veggies are fresh. They have a HUGE variety of things you can cook in your soup. My only caviat is the salmon was cut too thick. They make your sauce for the hot pot from scratch; you pick and choose what you want in your sauce, but it's easier to just go with "everything." My personal favorites: dimsum (eggtart, shu mai, fried tofu) hot pot (fatty beef, quail eggs, Szechuan spicy & thai tom yum broth, spinach) I changed my green tea to Chrysanthemum tea, but it was too sweet. Just stick with the green tea! Definitely coming back when I visit Vancouver. Even better to come with a larger group so you can try more things :) read more

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I have never been a huge fan of hot pot so I wasn't really expecting much when our family friends brought us here, trying to show us what Richmond has to bring us when it came to chinese food. I was surprisingly very impressed and satisfied towards the end of our meal though! If all hot pots were made this way, I think i would be a huge fan by now! I definitely would want to come back next time I am in Vancouver! The restaurant venue itself is very spacious and clean. Each group has their own booths if wanted, which was neat. It was very private and you couldn't see other people. http://static1.px.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/siqzms_F4kAx_qVsKfEheg/l There are tables available but for smaller size groups. Service was right on where at the beginning they would push out a cart, where they ask you what kind of sauce you would want for your hot pot dipping dishes. They would recommend what you want to be mixed in also if you look confused! Everything was definitely VERY fresh. We got a good range of vegetables and meat. In addition we got fresh seafood off the sushi boat they displayed it on. It included salmon, shrimp, abalone, elephant trunk( i forgot the name ), and etc. http://static1.px.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/BlGO3FZvbtTtXn_aDg2X3A/l The soup itself to dip everything in was delicious but one side, we made it a bit TOO spicy. The broth otherwise was excellent. read more

In this part of YVR someone like me could set off a silent alarm; *Caucasian alert* !! I managed to fly in under the radar and on the wing of my Chinese pal, J. She's awesome in so many ways but most pertinently, she's multilingual and well versed with the ins & outs of 'Hot Pot' culture. Me? I thought it was a soup. It's difficult enough as a non Asian, to know what to order in a Chinese restaurant but add to this a gluten intolerance disease and you get the picture. J. asked a lot of questions to our server Jimmy, who was amaaaazing! He knows a bit about Celiac and other food allergies. He was very communicative and thus gained my trust. We ordered two meat plates, one beef, one pork and one veggie. Would have ordered the chicken but apparently it is marinated and thus not gluten free. The raw meats are nicely laid out on a plate, thinly sliced ready to cook in a boiling broth of your choice. Each person has a dipping sauce, also of their own preference. In the end you DO indeed have soup, but according to J., in the Chinese culture the remaining broth is considered less healthy to consume. In my culture this kind of animal fat reduction is the BEST thing for you! Hello?! Haven't they heard about Chicken Soup? It's the Penicillin of the Jewish kitchen. I finished as much as I could with my rice and it was very tasty. This is a fun, festive kind of meal to enjoy with family or friends but definitely best when shared. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Getting a Florida Perm from all the steam. Note to self; *hair UP next time* - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

This is not an AUCE hot pot place. Parking: There is no sign of the restaurant parking garage. It is easy to miss at night. Service: All servers are very friendly. Food: Sauce cart arrived immediately once we sat. The server will mix the sauce per your preferences. Each person has a dish of sauce and it is refillable. Complementary refillable cold plum juice is nice and it is not too sour or too water down. I liked the broth and it is not salty at all and no MSG. The meat is fresh. All the meatballs are tasty, fresh, and unique. The dish portion is just right. For a party of 2, a dish of lamb, dish of meatballs combo (4 types), a dish of vegetable combo (2 kinds), dish of a side-dish combo (2 kinds), a dish of fish maw, and a dish of fish noodles. After tips and tax, it is about $100 for 2. We were very full. This is a decent restaurant but I cannot call myself a fan of it. Otherwise, it may be suitable for a four-star rating. read more

I've only come here for dim sum. My son thinks the tea selection, char Siu bao, and mochi yam desserts are legendary.

I had hot pot at Garden City Hot Pot on a Saturday night. It was super busy! Guess people like going out to hot pot on a cold Saturday night? Haha. Anyways, we had a reservation so it wasn't too bad for us. After being seated the sauce girl came around with a cart full of sauces and personalize each of our sauce dishes. Pretty impressive! The food was pretty good and we all left with our hands holding our expanded bellies! Haha. Overall, I was impressed by the quick friendly service we received. The plum tea girl was by often to fill our drinks and our waitress must have come by at least 5 times to check on us. You know for a Chinese restaurant that type of superior service is not expected but highly appreciated! Keep up the good work! read more

Garden City Hot Pot - My sauce - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

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Wow, this restaurant had ALL of my favorite foods. Had amazing jook with fresh fish and liver (the in-laws wanted the liver!) but it was quite expensive (~$25). Also had some steamed dim sum dishes I love like har gow and a tofu/shrimp thing. The hot tea and do-it-yourself aspect is also pretty cool. Lastly, my favorite Chinese dessert...the tapioca pudding cake with black sesame on the bottom. You should go just to eat this. I'd like to go back every time I visit Vancouver. Perhaps try their hot pot. Also, service was great! They were very friendly and accommodating. read more

Garden City Hot Pot - Mmm.. tapioca pudding w/ sesame. The best! - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

Good food and selection... service can get a little curt but it's still tolerable. Can get loud though

This is the first time I've been to this hotpot location. I've heard good things through the grapevine about it. I was an invited guest so I had no say in what was ordered however everything ordered was delicious. The two soup bases were Satay and Century Egg. The ingredients were fresh quality ingredients. The meats ordered were SO tender!! We had the beef, chicken, lamb, pork and fish I loved the heart-shaped tofu and the crispy fish skin! The staff were very helpful and friendly. The bathrooms were clean = VERY important It's a good sized restaurant but needs elbow room. The tables were squished together. I'm guessing to maximize customer capacity. Over all a great experience!! I will definitely go again! read more

The food is decent here, but some staff members can be dishonest when it comes to charging tip. We gave them 15% tip but they changed it to 20%. We realized this when we got the receipt back. Be like a hawk when giving tip and don't let them scam you. A few bucks isn't much but the dishonesty leaves a bad taste in the mouth after. read more

Coming for a hot pot experience that is not AYCE, one would have to think about coming to this place. Part of the Top Gun group of restaurants, right along Garden City, in Richmond, this fairly sized restaurant on the main level of this plaza (on McKim and Garden City) houses a pretty good hot pot experience. With the overflood of this style of cuisine, there are tons to choose from in regards to cooking your own food, and I would put this one high due to service and quality. My review is purely based on having dinner, and not the lunch and dim sum that they also serve. If your used to eating AYCE hot pot, it is going to take a little to stomach the price per dish of the stuff you would usually not even care about (because it is AYCE) and just order due to the instinct of your stomach of just being hungry, so it is something to get used to when you cannot just randomly order everything on the menu, and you have to pick and choose. You may wonder on how much your getting with each selection priced at certain price points and calculate how much that usual $20 per head charged to you is worth prior to ordering. Just realize this, how many of us can actually eat their own money's worth when doing the 'all you can gorge' menu, and when is it enough. Two people, we ordered a plate of sirlion beef, a plate of lamb, tofu, udon, enoki mushrooms, and cabbage, with a satay soup base. We were struggling at the end to finish all we ordered. They also come around always refilling your plum juice, a nice concentration, not too sweet, with a little zing. The orders for each individual plate of raw food is a fare size, when you start dabbling into dipping/cooking the food in the broth of your choice. Sometimes due to the instinct of the stomach, we tend to believe things look small, and our stomach is the big bad monster ready to devour a city, but that just is not the case, and the food I ordered between the two of us was just right, if not more than enough. The other thing, ordering by/being charged by the dish is the quality control. This place has been here for many years, and the care on the quality of each dish that is coming out is good, for raw food. The meat is just right, not too frozen, the vegetables are all washed clean, the tofu is arranged nicely on a plate, small little garnishing aside, this place is solid. Remember, since this is one of those Top Gun restaurants, if you paid for their membership card, you get an additional 20% off. In price, this would have worked out to be the same, but you would not get into the moral delemna of over ordering, and fearing what the people say about you, due to the fact you are actually paying per plate! read more

Garden City Hot Pot - My pot of fun, I mean food. - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

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Went on a Monday night with the g-unit, her first time going to hot pot. Ordered: half chicken stock soup and half garlic spicy broth. chicken stock was a bit bland but the garlic spicy broth was full of flavor. probably about a 6 on the spicy level and i like hot food. We ordered scallops, pork cheek, wonton, fatty beef, spinach, oyster mushrooms, baby bok choy. Everything was fresh and tasted delicious. The service was friendly and speedy, the lady making the dipping sauce was very nice and helpful /condimentsuicide Would definitely go back again and would be even better with more friends to experience a greater variety of meats/veggies. read more

tip: 20% off with top gun gold card ($20 a year membership) Excellent service especially the sauce cart service with pretty much everything you want. Fish broth had a faint fish taste which is good but not overly fishy. papaya and chicken feet is just really chicken broth with those things thrown in there. the broth didn't have those flavors incorporated in there. pork kidneys were extra soft though a tiny bit smelly (hard to get rid of smell anyways) which is fine. liver was also very soft which is surprising, pork blood was as soft as tofu, beef ball had bits of chen pei which is a good touch, beef tongue was great as well, lamb had small traces of gaminess which is fine, unlimited chrysanthemum tea (a bit sweet) put this place over the top. the counter lady coming to the table side with the portable swiping machine is very similar to Hong Kong and China. read more

We came here multiple times for both hot pot dinner and lunch. It is always very good. For hot pot dinner the soup base are all very good and ingredients very fresh. Lunch dim sum and congee are good. read more

Excellent service, good environment like decorations, bone China tea set. Pastry and sandwiches are average. For $ 55 per person, it is an experience. read more

It's all about the sauce... The server pushes a cart over to your table and asks you what would you like in your sauce. I didn't know what to do with so many options... At first I asked for just the satay sauce. Then our local friends went to town on the sauce and I knew what I had to do. I ask the server to give me everything but the chili sauce. I ended up never touching my little bowl of boring satay sauce. Now I know. It's not AYCE so you order off the menu. They have the staples of thinly sliced meats - pork, beef, etc and fish and shrimp balls, wontons, siu-kaus, tofu, tofu puffs, fresh veggies- watercress and pea vines, noodles, and the more exotic - beef tendon, pigs blood, and even chicken testicles. (note- we did not order the testicles but we all giggled over it on the menu.) They even have sashimi and sticky rice. The sticky rice was really good- little bits of meat and eggs in a little clay pot. mmm.... Restaurant was clean and well lit. Very nice presentation with each plate with a little baby carrot. I love the tofu- it was cut in heart shapes. And the chrysanthamum tea they serve is delicious- cold and sweet and they kept our cups full. I wish our hot pot places in Seattle would serve it too! I'm glad I don't live in the Vancouver/Richmond area because I would eat everything in sight and be as big as a house. I can't wait until we go visit again!!!! read more

Garden City Hot Pot - I *heart* Tofu - Dim Sum Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

This is the best hot pot i have ever had...EVER!! Great service, really fresh food, good soup and choice of 2 drinks (plum juice or chrysanthemum.) We ordered lots of beef, pork, tofu, noodles..the usual stuff. Loved it!! I am looking forward to my next trip to Vancouver so we can eat here again. SO NOM NOM!!! If you're ever in Richmond and want to have hot pot...COME HERE!!! read more

My family constantly comes here for our dim sum and hot pot needs. I will review them separately. Dim Sum: I like it! There are a wide range of traditional dim sum choices, which are made to order so you know they are fresh out of the kitchen. You can also opt to get congee, becareful..they are huge, which is good for sharing. The service is always good and the waiters/waitresses are attentive to your needs. Cool thing is, everyone can choose their own tea and brew it in their own cups. Hot Pot: This is my favourite part of the restaurant. Sauce is one of the most important parts of Hot Pot (you can disagree with me). Sauce carts are pushed to your table at the start of the meal and you can customize your sauce by telling the server what you would like. If you need a refill at any point, they are happy to assist you. The price of hot pot here is not cheap. But mind you, it's not an all you can eat. The quality is much better, the meat and seafood are fresh, and the flavours are in abundance. The meat/seafood balls are literally fresh and never frozen. GET THE FRIED FISH SKIN! - so good as is or put in the hot pot. You can also choose from plum juice or chrysanthemum tea, which are both not too sweet. Point is...this place is about quality, not quantity. read more

A restaurant that is part of the Top Gun group and it is my favourite restaurant out of the rest of them. I have been here multiple times for dim sum. Not too many choices for dim sum selection; however, they are all pretty good. I would recommend the deep fried squid because that's a must have for me. Furthermore, teas are served individually and there are different variety of tea to choose from. I have been here for dinner (hot pot only) hence it is garden city "hot pot". It is not all you can eat and can get pricey, but it is quality over quantity here. The gold top gun card can save you a couple bucks with promotion and discounts. It is like a rebate card and I have one personally because I come here quite often. Overall, friendly staff and good food. read more

Great Hot Pot! I would say their biggest asset would be the fish/meat balls that appear to be freshly made (not pre-frozen or watered down with starch) which you will rarely see. I really enjoyed the Geoduck sashimi (yes, I was surprised too!) and having the dipping sauce personally delivered at the table was a nice touch. There is a large complex for easy parking and ventilation is good (very important for hot pot!). I would definitely recommend for a nice lunch/dinner but as always, hot pot is best in groups, so bring friends and family! Tactful TIP: "Top Gun Group" owns several restaurants in BC such as Garden City HP. You can get a nice discount off your bill with a Gold card membership, for tonight it saved 10% off the bill but discounts vary on time and location (applies to other Top Gun restaurants too). Here's a helpful discount chart: http://www.topgungroup.com/menu/discountchart.pdf Using the card also collects points that can be redeemed for extras to complement your meal or other swag such as a round trip to Hong Kong (just need 58,000 points) Points Chart: http://www.topgungroup.com/new-redemption-poster.pdf Application is $50 and annual fee following, $25. So worth it if you eat out a LOT. read more

We've been here twice and I think it's a great spot for hot pot. It can get crowded, so plan accordingly or make a reservation. I like that they come to your table with a condiment station and you can build your own sauce. The menu selection offers lots of choices in meats, seafood and vegetable. In particular, I liked the homemade meatballs, sliced pork and tofu cut into heart shapes. Live prawns on sticks seemed popular the last time we were there ... but it creeped me out, so we passed on it. The fried fish skin was a revelation. I didn't think that I would like it, but it was really addictive. Thick and crispy, not overly fishy. If you have a Top Gun Group discount, make sure to bring your card as it's part of the chain. read more

In spite of the name, this is also one of the best Dim Sum and Tea restaurants in Richmond. First, the tea -- they serve it traditional style: a bowl with a lid, loose tea leaves, hot water kettle and a big bowl for waste water. The "correct" procedure is as follows: 1) Pour hot water into the big bowl. 2) Roll your cup in the hot water to warm it. 3) Put the tea leaves into the cup. 4) Pour hot water into the cup. 5) Wait a bit. 6) Pour out the first batch of tea (but not the leaves!) into the waste water bin. Use the lid to keep the leaves in the cup. 7) Pour hot water into the cup. 8) Wait a bit. 9) Drink the tea, again tilting the lid to keep the leaves out of your mouth. Whew! But it's worth it. The food is perfect, cooked to order at the right temperature not oily and delicious. While they have "standard" dim sum, they also have dishes from different regions as well as some creative newer dishes. As mentioned before, the interior is nice, with roomy booths. Make reservations (you can even call ahead as little as 10 minutes before) or suffer the consequences. read more