Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum is a Hong Kong style Cantonese dim sum with vintage vibe interiors and retro dai pai dong zi char restaurant in Singapore.
Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum has affordable handmade dim sum made from scratch by various dim sum chefs. We saw the whole process of them stir frying the ingredients for the fillings of the baos, kneading of the dough for the pastry, beating of cake mixtures for steamed cakes and handcrafting each individual dim sum for baking. This is their central kitchen where hundreds of dim sum are made fresh daily in-house to distribute to all their outlets islandwide.
Besides handmade dim sum, you can also enjoy chef cooked dai pai dong Hong Kong style zichar at Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum restaurant right in Singapore. Like Dai Pai Dong in Hong Kong, starters start from $4 which is pretty affordable. Portions of food such as the stir fried seafood E-fu Noodles ($8) are also more generous compared to your typical zi char in Singapore.
This is one of the largest central kitchen we have seen next to a dim sum restaurant. If you are looking for freshly handmade dim sum, do give Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum a try. They have a total of 3 Five Star Dim Sum outlets in Singapore islandwide, in locations such as Clementi Street, Meiling Street and Sims Drive within Shun Li Industrial Complex.
Today, we are heading over to their Main central kitchen restaurant at Sims Drive within Shun Li Industrial Complex. Parking are aplenty here. While there, locate the red industrial building and enter the lift next to a indoor ground floor security post. Take the lift up to level 7, turn right and head straight all they way to Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum restaurant. 
Here’s our Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum review after trying some of the popular recommendations on their menu. There are a total of 108 types of dim sum and zi char dishes and you will be spoilt for choice on what to try. Since there is only gst and no service charges, the prices are lower than your average price dim sum in Singapore. You can now enjoy more varieties of dim sum with the savings on service charge.
This is how it works: get the paper menu before entering the restaurant, tick on dim sum menu items to order, check out at the cashier and collect your food with a buzzer when ready. Enjoy affordable dim sum from $2.50 with no service charge.
Enjoy a homely dim sum experience where you can help yourselves to condiments such as shredded ginger, vinegar, cut chilli sauce, sweet chilli sauce and mayonnaise for your dim sum and zi char dishes. You can also get any cutlery you need for the dine-in experience, such as bowls, plate, saucer, chopstickers, spoons, fork and laddle etc alongside the sauce counter. You can even get your own plastic bags next to the entrance if you need to take away any food. Let’s check out the dim sum!
HK Crispy Shrimp Cheong Fun ($5.50) with crunchy center and bouncy shrimp. This rice roll is made from scratch with a steamer. A cheese cloth is laid on the steamer where a fine batter of rice roller batter is poured on top. The rice batter is steamed until a smooth rice sheet like a translucent skin is formed. Two crispy shrimp rolls are then encased within this smooth rice skin and served with special soy sauce. The crispy shrimp roll with chewy skin is an interesting combo paired with some sweet and mildly salty soy sauce. They also have 5 other types of cheong fun made with various ingredients.
They have 3 types of baked dim sum. HK Egg Tarts, Po Lo Bun and Baked Char Siew Bun are all sold out on our visit. The chef has graciously promised to make us some freshly baked HK egg tarts so that we can review their bake items. We chose to try their HK egg tarts ($3.70) which is made and baked in house before our eyes. Made with a combo of different doughs and a thick batter of egg batter, it is a time consuming and laborious bake dim sum. Every tart crust is beautifully hand crafted in a mould and pour with a creamy looking egg batter. The result is a crisp, flaky golden crust with silky smooth hot egg custard that almost jiggles when we breaks it into halves. We had it fresh out of the oven and it is good.
Ma Lai Gao Cantonese Sponge Cake is also made in house. The dim sum baker chef hand beats a thick gooey batter made with various ingredients from scratch. She then weighs each batter carefully before pouring them in a large rectangular bake tray heading for the steamer.
The Cantonese Sponge Cake ($3.20) is a springy and soft cake. It has a light aroma of caramelized brown sugar with the fluffy texture of a sponge cake. You can find many of these retro dim sum at this Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum restaurant. Below are some other retro eats we found at the restaurant that your elderly grandparents and parents will reminisce about. They can now find them here.
Fried Taro Dumplings ($5 for 3pcs), this is another one of your old school dim sum. Encased in a crisp and light crust that disintegrates into flakes when you bite into it, are some very savoury fillings with a curry cream in the center. The smooth yam paste blends seamlessly into these crisp and saucy fillings, giving it an extra rich bite.
They also have the staple of what every dim sum restaurant should have. Feast on large and juicy Steamed Prawn Siew Mai ($5 for 4 pcs), soft and fluffy Bbq Char Siew Bun ($4 for 3 pcs), crystal steamed shrimp dumplings($5 for 3 pcs), savoury and full of collagen Black Pepper Chicken Feet ($4.50) and some old school lo mai gai – HK Glutinous Rice ($3.50) with waxed ham and chewy sticky rice.
They also have the photogenic and instagramworthy dim sum – Hk Salted Egg Custard Bun ($4 for 3 pcs) with hot molten lava cream, Steamed Mushroom Bun ($4.50) – a beautiful bao with savoury fillings and one of their best sellers a hot bowl of Ting Zai Congee ($5) with many different ingredients of seafood and meat.
Want the best of both worlds? Have some Hong Kong style dai pai dong zi char with lots of wok hei together with your table of dim sum feast. Here are what we tried – double boiled soup Hong Kong Style Black Chicken Herbal Soup ($7) for that nourishing rich umaminess, Mala Grilled Fish($22.80) for the savoury kick, Hot Plate Tofu ($9.80) served sizzling hot, Bo Zai Fan – Hong Kong Style Claypot Chicken Rice ($6) with waxed sausage & salted fish, stir fried Kang Kong ($8 for small) with garlic & chilli and Seafood E-Fu Noodles ($8) aka longevity noodles that is great for Birthday. There are more zi char dishes we have yet to explore and we can only save it for the next visit.
They also have a VIP room that can host up to 55 pax if you are looking for an affordable place to eat dim sum and retro zi char. This is great large gathering in Singapore with your family or company colleagues. The VIP room overlooking a roof top has several round banquet tables with a lazy susan on every table for ease of sharing dishes. If you like what we tried at this bustling retro dim sum place in Shun Li Industrial Complex, do head over today.
Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum Address:
705 Sims Dr, #07-01,
Shun Li Industrial Complex, S387384
Call: 8197 2909
Opening hours:
8am – 9pm daily (last order 8.30pm)
No service charge, only gst applies.
Other 2 outlets :
106 clementi street 12, #01-50 and 158 Meiling Street, #01-74.
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