May 25, 2018
Flavourful dumpling in soup
Siu mai and steamed sweet egg yolk paste layer cake
I love the sweet egg yolk paste cake, but it's really heavy
Chicken pies (2 orders) and baked BBQ pork pastry
We love their curry chicken pies
Deep fried squid tentacles
Har gow
Curry octopus
So tasty!
July 6, 2014
Wow! Time flies so quickly, I can't believe it's been over a year since I ate here!
The only thing that's changed is the crazy line-up of people waiting to eat Dim Sum at 9am on a Sunday morning. We were in line for an hour and a bit waiting for a table and according to the hostess, people regularly line up at 8am waiting for the restaurant to open at 9am so that they can get a table.
I like the new containers!
Shrimp Balls - still crispy and deliciously filled with shrimp
Seafood dumpling in soup
Delicious and filled with crab meat and all sorts of goodies in a chicken stock broth. It was so good we ordered another one. I love the little tea light under the bowl - very cute.
Clockwise from the top: Mini curry octopi, vegetable dumplings, sticky rice in lotus leaf (lo mai gai) and shrimp rice rolls
The curry octopus dish was really good - then again it's always been a favourite dim sum dish of mine and they do it really well here. The sticky rice had an egg yolk in it which is different and kind of unusual - I'm not sure I like the new changes.
Tea leaf, peanut and pork bone congee and shrimp rice rolls in soy sauce
The congee was pretty bland and needed quite a bit of the salt to save it. Rice rolls were really good.
Eel in flaky pastry
The pastry was really good, but maybe I'm biased because I love flaky pastry. And when they put a savoury filling inside - it makes it even better! Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of eel in the middle of the pastry, but I liked eating the area where the juices soaked into the pastry.
Rice roll wrapped around youtiao with bonito flakes on top
I'm not a big fan of bonito flakes, especially after my trip to
Japan. It felt like they put it on top of everything and the salty flavour and flaky & melty texture is not appealing to me.
Pineapple buns with BBQ pork in the middle
Still as good as last year's!
Milk tarts and Chicken pies
The milk tarts were nice and light compared to egg tarts.
I love their chicken pie dim sum dish at Dragon Boat Fusion Cuisine! The pie has a nice baked mini pie crust and inside is the curry chicken filling with a kind of pineapple bun top. It's fantastic - a Must Try here!
Har Gow with a shrimp!
Siu Mai
Just as good as I remembered it!
February 6, 2013
Dragon Boat Fusion Cuisine is one of my favourite dim sum places in the GTA
The restaurant is located on East Beaver Creek in an area that's predominantly commercial - if I didn't know where it was, I'd probably have a difficult time finding it. Also, parking is a hassle at the restaurant since it doesn't seem like there's enough and people have had their cars towed away in a nearby parking lot.
Pineapple bun filled with bbq pork
It's called a pineapple bun, but there's no pineapple in it. Instead, the top crust is cooked to a golden-brown colour and checkered thereby resembling a pineapple. The bun is usually pretty sweet, but when you add in the BBQ pork, it gets more of a savoury taste.
Steamed oxtail with bean curd sheet in garlic
The dish sounded like it would be more salty and full-flavoured with the garlic. However, this dim sum dish was actually kind of sweet. The meat wasn't as tender as I would have liked, but it was okay.
Pumpkin congee
It was thinner than the usual congee and had a nice hint of pumpkin flavour.
BBQ pork in puff pastry
Beef tendons
I like it when beef tendons are soft and not very chewy and this dish wasn't quite there. The peppers were actually hot (so much for thinking it was just a garnish).
Steamed sticky rice with chicken wrapped in lotus leaf and har gow (in the back)
The sticky rice was okay - the restaurant used to serve two large wraps in the same dim sum container and now they serve three. I think it was better in the past when they went quality instead of quantity.
Har Gow
Rice noodle roll wrapped around youtiao (fried bread stick) with shredded meat
It's really nice with soy sauce.
Deep fried shrimp balls
The shrimp balls were crispy and packed solid with shrimp - delicious
Dumpling in soup
The broth was really nice and the dumpling was huge and filled with lots of goodies like Chinese mushroom cubes, ground beef, shrimp and some vegetables.
Dragon Boat Festival Rice Dumpling
A traditional staple near Dragon Boat Festival time - it's a pyramid of sticky and salty rice. There's usually a cooked egg yolk inside.
Spring rolls with coriander, Chinese mushrooms and carrots.
I wasn't a big fan of this...I still think Vietnamese spring rolls are the best.
Siu mai
You can never really go wrong with siu mai and har gow at dim sum.
Yum!
Overall: Decent dim sum and for a reasonable price. The restaurant is huge and yet, you could still wait 1/2 hour for a table, but the service is fast.
