I'm a fan of the kum den. Good value for money and food is yummy. I recommend the spring onion pancake and the dumpling dishes are good as well

Yummy yum cha! Good value meals, decent quality. and very busy on the weekends, so you may need to make a booking to reserve a seat.

Funny name but amazing food here. It's BYO too so you can bring some wine along with you. I recommend the spring rolls, pork dumplings and spring onion cake

Had yumcha once at this restaurant and the other night we had dinner banquet at this place with friends from Sydney. We ordered a softshell crab for entree (it wasn't great and it was so tiny, wasn't crispy at all), seafood clay pot combination was good for once- lots of seafood, scallop and prawns with calamari, crispy pepper and salt pork ribs - it was good too.

The fried rice was a failure- nothing special & plain. The ham and mixed vegetables were so little and dry too. The service was so-so despite I asked so many times for glass of warm water they ignored me. I didn't foot the bill but I guess it wasn't worth it. Other Chinese restaurants were better in Chinatown.

Kum Den is a good reliable oldie. If I want traditional chinese food, at a reasonable price, done the proper way, in a semi casual environment for dinner, this is the place.
First of all, the seafood is good. And not one-dimensional. Ie. you can have your crab dry style fried or steamed atop sticky glutinous rice with bits of lap cheong and mushroom. (delicious and interesting alternatives to the usual egg noodles).
The hotpots are great, and come to the table in a huge claypot, along with the table stove. It was also heartening to find that it wasn't just a big pot with lots of lovely broth, but also filled with a reasonable amount of meat & vegetables etc.
On an end note, red bean pancake is very good. flakey, crispy and rich buttery pastry around soft, sweet and sticky red bean puree.

Serves simple, quick and tasty chinese foods. My favorite is the fuzhou fried rice, slightly more expensive than my usual lunch fix but totally worth the money. The seafood with gravy is so delicious, poured over the fried rice but not making them soggy.

Not withstanding the unfortunate name, my husband and I chose to have dinner here a couple of weeks ago.

The restaurant is clean and well presented inside. We were seated quickly and given complimentary prawn crackers and green tea to start. We had spring rolls and dim sims for entree. The spring rolls were fresh & hot but my husband was disappointed that they had no meat inside. There were three different varieties in the serve of dim sims (prawn, pork and shark fin) which were quite tasty.

For main we had lemon chicken and Mongolian beef. The lemon chicken was REALLY lemony (not in a good way) and the batter on the chicken was slightly doughy. The Mongolian beef was satisfactory and the meat wasn't chewy like it can be at some places.

We had green tea and black sesame ice cream for dessert. They both appeared to be freshly made and the green tea was especially tasty. You would be good to avoid the black sesame unless you really like the taste of sesame because it was really strong.

The service was OK, the food was OK, but it just wasn't outstanding. People eating seafood dishes on other tables looked to be really enjoying themselves and their food, so perhaps seafood is the specialty of this place. An average experience.

This place is great for a lunchtime fix. My favourite is 'Pork Chop, cream corn and rice'. Looks like a plate of baby poo but is a very filling, very tasty crumbed pork chop on a pile if too much rice, with a creamed corn sauce. Yum.

Approximate cost: $7:00