Restaurant: Hong Kong Flower Lounge, 51
Price: $$
Review: Excellent location for the car-less! Right across from the Millbrae Caltrain/BART station. The place is huge, so it’s likely that you’ll get seating right away. The place is filled with Chinese people, which is always a good sign that it’s good. We had all the usual dim sum dishes- shrimp dumplings, shao mai, pork short ribs, preserved egg rice porridge, Shanghainese buns, sweet pork buns, and our ultimate favorite, the long rice-noodle shrimp dumplings. They were all very good, authentically tasting and the rice noodles were all soft and fresh, an essential of good dim sum. Ooh the service is also great, speedy tea-refills and a nice waitress gave Jenny her own small portion of rice porridge. The prices were higher than that of the average dim sum restaurant, but the restaurant was much cleaner and nicely decorated than the average Chinese restaurant. More importantly, we felt very comfortable there, no weird or scary Chinese staff incidents or the hygienic issues that sometimes arises from venturing to a Chinese restaurant. We definitely felt the trip there was worth it, although if asked whether this is THE place to get dim sum, the prices could make you hesitate a bit. Jenny would still recommend Loon Wah more for its equally good but cheaper dishes, along with Northern Chinese dim sum plates that add to the variety and spices it up a bit. But is that near the Caltrain station? No, so Reid and Jenny may have to stick to Hong Kong Flower Lounge unless we find a car.
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