Having been a frequent patron of Fu Ho, in the same complex as Sun Tung Lok, our family decided to give this restaurant a try since their name and reputation did speak for itself.
Upon entry, the staff were pleasant, efficient and the decor was very nice. It was a very well run establishment and i have no knocks on it for service. thats for sure.
The pricing was a big higher than expected considering Fu Ho next door was roughly 30-40% cheaper on average, despite still being in a similar class of restaurant. The easiest comparison would be Fook Lam Moon in terms of class/reputation/pricing. There are plenty of expensive Chinese restaurants but they rarely carry the same type target market etc. Sun Tung Lok, as i learned, catered to a much more family type of environment with reliance of frequent customers or "Sook Hak".
The food itself amazing in relation to taste. As i learned from my dad, the type of dim sum they served was an old style with stronger tastes and much more detail oriented. It's hard to explain over text, english albeit, but it was very good. We ordered around 8,9 dishes for the 3 of us and it was enough. Usually there would be a need for a rice dish or noodle dish to complete the meal but due to the size of the individual dim sum, it was enough.
That brings me to the next point. I think that in this day and age, expensive is synonymous with small when it comes to food. the more you pay, the smaller the dish. The same is true for dim sum. Hop on down to your neighborhood "cha lau" or restaurant and you'll see large "siu mai", "har gow" and "cha siu bao". I'm not saying that it's a bad thing but usually that is the case. However, here at Sun Tung Lok the size of the dim sum was large, Large to the point where three could easily have passed as a full dish instead of 4. Usually, there is a saying that the more of something there is, the less of a novelty it is, or something like that but that didn't ring true here. There was no loss in quality, each individual dumpling, slice of turnip cake of flour roll still tastes as good as the last.
All in all, the food was amazing, the environment and decor was comfortable and the staff was excellent but is it worth the 30% premium on another very good establishment that serves marginally worse food? That's up to you.
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