The absolute best Yum Cha I've ever had. We happily travel the 30+km to come here again and again over all the other nice restaurants in our area, it's well well worth it.
Must must MUST try the deep fried chicken drumettes and their chicken & corn soup is among the best I've ever tried.

Approximate cost: $22

We have been here twice now, and both times we have been very impressed. Definitely a 5 out of 5 score from me. I'm normally somewhat stingy, but I really feel the quality of the food justifies the price. Though I have only had the yumcha, so I don't know what their other dishes are like.

The first time we had the unlimited yumcha at $39.50 each. We found the food and value to be excellent. After the soup, we had a plate of fried items, and one of them was tofu. I'm not a tofu person, but we'd made a promise to try everything, so I did, and it was DELICIOUS! The calamari was perfectly cooked, and almost melt in your mouth. We liked some of the dumplings and wontons more than others, but the fried rice was delicious, and we certainly enjoyed the food. If anything, the next wave of dishes arrived too quickly, because often we hadn't finished what we had before the next lot were brought out. After we'd had more than our fill, we were pondering ending with a dessert, and were recommended the mango pudding (mousse) and coconut cake (jelly), which we shared between the 3 of us. DIVINE!

We had an embarrassing moment I'll share, where a "dumpling of doom" had slipped out of the grasp of the chopsticks while being carried to a plate, and dropped onto the tablecloth, where the sticky outer stuck to the table cloth and would not easily be removed. So after picking off what we could, of course we decided to hide the remains under the saucer for the soy sauce bottle, as you do :). but having just placed the bottle ontop, one of our party reached across the table saying "no, you'll make it worse", and then made it MUCH worse by accidentally knocking the bottle over, spilling almost the entire contents of soy onto the (white) tablecloth! Then trying to mop it up, we succeeded only in making a napkin covered in soy too. The staff didn't even look angry, so that was nice! So it was all started by the "dumpling of doom"

So then for my birthday I wanted to do yumcha, and even though it was quite a drive (an hour and a half), we wanted to go to this place again because we had enjoyed it so much the time before (we still laugh over the soy incident) We also remembered they had a booth/room at the back and booked that as we were this time taking an infant and we wanted the extra privacy/sound barrier :) There was a little hiccup with the booking, we had been told that they would hold the table for only 15 mins if we were late, and we ended up (because of traffic) being 10 mins late. They had seated someone in our spot! We were offered a table elsewhere, or to wait for about 15 mins until the other booth was cleared. Unfortunately we had picked a very busy night, as the Cirque du Soleil was performing right around the corner and people were coming in for dinner between shows. But after we explained that we had booked the booth because of the infant and it being my birthday, and that while we were 10 mins late, we were told they would hold it for 15 mins, and that with the infant and it raining outside, we couldn't stand around waiting for the other booth to be ready.... within only about a minute, they had moved the person who had been seated at our table, and we got our table. They were very good about this, while we felt bad forcing someone out of their seat and making a fuss, the booth was one reason we liked this place and we'd called earlier to make sure our booking was still for that booth. We found the service to be excellent all through the evening, we had staff coming in to check we were ok and if we wanted anything more. Though sometimes it is a little difficult to get the attention of a waiter when you are in those booth/rooms, but that is the price you pay for the advantages of being tucked away in a more private area.

This time we decided that we would try just ordering the yumcha items we wanted and not do the unlimited. We ended up spending $50 each, including drinks (there were 4 of us), which ended up being a bit more than the unlimited deal, but we feel we got better value doing it this way because we got to eat only the things we want, and dishes that we didn't have in the unlimited yumcha. Admittedly I think we could have done without the last round of dishes, which would have then made it about the same price as the unlimited deal, but we enjoyed this meal better - because we could pick what we liked. We also got to pace ourselves, ordering in waves so that we had a chance to enjoy the food and let it settle before the next round came. Again the soup was superb, the the tofu and calamari melted in your mouth, the fried rice was beautiful and we had some other amazing dishes that we'd decided to try and were impressed by.

My favourites were the Salt and pepper Calamari and Tofu (I still can't believe I ate tofu by choice!!), the Chicken & sweetcorn soup, Fried rice, Chicken bun (which we tried out of interest and were pleased we did), Little dragon chicken dumpling (which were simple but delicious).. the Cantonese 5 spice beef (which was so delicious we had to order more!)... the mango pudding/mousse and the custard egg buns (*drool*)

We had also had (which were very yummy indeed), the Pork & vegetable spring roll, Crabmeat & prawn dumpling, Chicken san choy bow, Deep fried sesame prawn toast, Mixed Asian vegetables (which aren't really my thing) and Honey glazed chicken drumettes (which I actually didn't try)

The only dish we didn't like was the BBQ pork ribs... we found it a bit oily (the taste was nice though), and my piece had quite a few bone fragments in it (though none of the other pieces seemed to).

Our second order of the 5 spiced beef came to the table somewhat lacking. There was about a tablespoon worth of the beef, with the sauce and 2 large seed pods. So we commented on this to a waitress and they replaced the dish. Not sure what happened there, but the fact they replaced it with a proper serve made us happy (It really is DELICIOUS!) The only other complaint was that our second lot of calamari & tofu was a little oily (still melt in the mouth delicious though), So we made a decision that since the second lot of the 4 spice beef, tofu and calamari weren't as good as the first lots (although the replaced 4 spice beef was), that it was the universe's way of telling us not to be pigs :) and to be happy with the one serve of things. We were tempted to break our new rule when the egg custard buns were so delicious that we contemplated another :) but we thought we'd be good and finish there. And the portion size of the mango pudding had diminished - a lot. The first time we had shared one bowl between the 3 of us, and there was enough to be satisfied. This time they arrived in small bowls, and we had originally planned to share 1 bowl between 2 people, remembering that the other time the bowls were a good size and that we didn't think we could each eat a whole one. These bowls though were only enough for 1 serve. However the waitress sneaked us an additional 2 bowls, so we each got to have a reasonable amount...

So we were very pleased with the meal, the restaurant is decorated nicely and comfortable. Staff are friendly and for the most part very efficient (we had a little trouble with one waitress whose English wasn't as good as the rest) A little overcrowded on this visit, which I assume was because of the Cirque du Soleil, but that didn't affect us as we were in the booth. The first time we went was on a Thursday night, so it might always be that busy on a Sat night, I don't know.

We will definitely be going back!

We had split the bill tokens from the herald sun and just as well as I thought the prices were quite expensive for what it was.
The Entrees were amazing. The mains were nice but not brilliant! Service was great. A lovely night out.

Approximate cost: $25