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During Chinese New Year, my aunt was asking us which dim sum restaurant served the golden pudding year round, and we searched for it and found that Canton Room has it.  Between our schedules, we ended up having dim sum lunch at Canton Room a month later. Canton Room is located in Luk Kwok Hotel, which was quite famous back in the 80s.  Canton Room has kept its old school decor from the 80s/90s with the typical white table cloth and not very bright lighting.The dim sum menu has a pretty good vari
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During Chinese New Year, my aunt was asking us which dim sum restaurant served the golden pudding year round, and we searched for it and found that Canton Room has it.  Between our schedules, we ended up having dim sum lunch at Canton Room a month later. 

Canton Room is located in Luk Kwok Hotel, which was quite famous back in the 80s.  Canton Room has kept its old school decor from the 80s/90s with the typical white table cloth and not very bright lighting.

The dim sum menu has a pretty good variety and some old school dishes that are hard to find these days.
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 We were served 2 dishes of these edamame and cucumber snacks on the table.  The vegetables were crunchy, but nothing really special.
Snack
$22
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 The dim sum dishes at Canton Room are pretty average.
Steamed Prawn Dumpling
$48
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 The hargow were relatively large in size, and the skin was not too thick.
Steamed Barbecue Pork Bun
$38
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Barbecue Pork with Liver (4 pieces)
$80
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 Barbecue Pork with Liver: I took out the piece of fatty pork from the layers.  The chicken liver had a nice sweet flavor, and this is one of those dishes that you have once in a while since it has such a high fat content, and the ingredients do not justify the price tag.
Baked Barbecue Pork Puff
$40
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Baked Barbecue Pork Puff
$40
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 Baked Barbecue Pork Puff: This was surprisingly good.  The crust of the puff was pretty flaky, and the pineapple bun topping matched the sweet flavor of the barbecue pork.  
Sweet & Sour Wonton
$98
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Sweet & Sour Wonton
$98
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Sweet & Sour Wonton
$98
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 Sweet & Sour Wonton: I was looking forward to the fried wontons after seeing it on the menu, and it did not disappoint.  The sauce had plenty of ingredients in it including bbq pork, shrimps, and squid, which is quite close to the sauce from yesteryear!
Steamed Chicken with Mushroom
$42
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Panfried Sweeten Cake
$40
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 Panfried Sweeten Cake: This cake is the golden pudding that my aunt referred to, and it's pretty similar to those you can get from Indonesian establishments.  It had a nice chewy texture and wasn't overly sweet.
Soup Noodles with Crab Roe & Crab Meat
$248
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 Soup Noodles with Crab Roe & Crab Meat: The noodles had a good amount of crab roe and crab meat, but the noodles were quite mushy.
Steamed Layer Pudding
$40
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 Steamed Layer Pudding: This is the worst dish of the day.  The Chinese name is thousand-layer cake, while we don't expect it to have a thousand layers, this pudding only had two layers.  There was the white layer on top, and the chunky yellow layer on the bottom.  The yellow layer had nuts and coconut shreds in it unlike the traditional salted egg custard.
The majority of the dim sum at this restaurant are very traditional, but this steamed layer pudding (with "traditional 懷舊" in its Chinese name) is nothing like the traditional thousand layer cake.

We would probably come back to Canton Room if we were looking for the traditional dim sum dishes that are not available in other restaurants, but it would definitely not become a regular dim sum place for us.
(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)
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    Date of Visit
    2016-03-12
    Dining Method
    Dine In
    Spending Per Head
    $230 (Lunch)
    Dining Offer
    Coupon
    Recommended Dishes
    Steamed Prawn Dumpling
    $ 48
    Barbecue Pork with Liver (4 pieces)
    $ 80
    Baked Barbecue Pork Puff
    $ 40
    Baked Barbecue Pork Puff
    $ 40
    Sweet & Sour Wonton
    $ 98
    Sweet & Sour Wonton
    $ 98
    Sweet & Sour Wonton
    $ 98
    Panfried Sweeten Cake
    $ 40
    Soup Noodles with Crab Roe & Crab Meat
    $ 248