Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum is where you can try Singapore Cantonese Dim Sum with retro style dim sum, just like a Hong Kong Teahouse serving over 49 types of affordable handmade dim sum. You can now enjoy live seafood and dai pai dong style zi char in this Five Star Dim Sum restaurant hidden in Shun Li Industrial Complex.
Get affordable handmade dim sum that is hand made from scratch such as carrot cake, cha siew bao, egg tarts and more at Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum Main outlet at Sims Drive inside Shun Li Industrial Complex. This is their central kitchen where all the magic happens. Pictured above is their dim sum chef making radish cake from scratch. Fresh radish cake batter is mixed by hand and poured into cake tins for steaming. When cooked, slabs of radish cakes will be cut into single serving size to diners’ order. These will be deep fried till golden brown with a light batter.
The radish cakes are crunchy outside, moist and savoury inside with lots of ingredients such as julienned radish, dried shrimps and diced waxed sausage. It feels almost home made with so much ingredients. This is one of the must try dim sim at Five Star Dim Sum Main outlet located within Shun Li industrial complex.
Here’s Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum menu that is available at the main outlet Sims drive. You can get up to 49 types of handmade Hong Kong Cheong Fun, freshly prepared congee, steamed dim sum, various cakes and buns, fried dim sim, freshly baked pastry and more by their team of in-house dim sum chefs.
This kitchen laboriously makes each dim sum by hand from their central commercial kitchen with various large steamers for bao, for making Cheong Fun from batter, giant woks for cook to order Hong Kong Dai pai Dong zi char dishes, several pastry islands for making dim sum and even air- conditioned special room for making more delicate dim sum that requires a cool temperature.
Here’s our Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum review after trying their recommended dim sums and Zi char dishes. There are a good variety of dim sum to choose from including some very old-school dim sum that we rarely see in dim sum restaurants. You can find them here like unravelling hidden gems. Recently they also added some new creations to woo the young generation and entice them to try their dim sum, dim sum that looks good for Instagram.
During this visit, we are also delighted that they have expanded the zi char menu to a full fledged menu that can make any host proud with live seafood in the restaurant and various style of zi char dishes. They have included Chinese cuisines, Malaysian food and Singaporean delights beside their forte Hong Kong Style dai pai dong dishes.
They are currently having live soon hock at only $16.80. You can either get it steamed in HK style with superior soy sauce or deep fried. They have limited stock daily, do check with them for availability before heading over.
We tried the steamed HK style Soon Hock with superior soy sauce ($16.80), the flesh are delicate and has a mild springy texture. The flesh is held together by a thin gelatinous skin and a fish head that will ignite a fight among fish connoisseurs.
The chef recommended 3 for $50 live mud crabs for a full Singaporean style zi char experience. You can get them in various flavours such as Singapore Chilli Crab, Black Pepper Crab and also Spring Onion Ginger crab. We were told the most popular one is the Singapore Chilli Crab and surely it did not disappoint. The sauce is thick, luscious, laced with silky egg white and savoury with fruity undertones.
The crabs are easy to eat with pre-cracked claws where the flavours of the sauce can fully infused into the flesh. It has a good amount of meat to keep us happy even though it is only $50 for 3 whole live crab promotion.
Claypot Prawn and Vermicelli ($18.80) consists of a piping hot pot of large prawns simmering in savoury vermicelli. In this dish, both the prawns and the vermicelli take centre stage. The prawns are plump and sweet with a buttery head. The vermicelli soaks up the juices from the prawns, savoury juices from the soften cabbage and infused with the aroma of refreshing, minty and sweet cilantro. If you are there to try their dim sum, be sure to get some of the above Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum live seafood, claypots and zi char.
Here’s what you need to know at this featured main outlet at Sims Drive, where you get dim sum, fresh bakes and makes, straight from their kitchen. Get the menu near the cashier, indicate your orders on the paper menu, check out, get a buzzer and find a table inside the restaurant.
Collect your food from the counter next to the cashier when the buzzer sounds. The dim sum here are pretty affordable with no service charge but only gst with their Signature Big Bun starting at only $2.50.
You may even catch a glimpse of the chefs hand making your dim sum while collecting your food. The collection counter is adjacent to their pastry making island where the chef labours away for some fine old school dim sum. Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum has a total of 3 outlets around Singapore – Sims Drive at Shun Li Industrial Complex , Clementi Street and Meiling street (Full address at the end).
This central kitchen handmade up to 600 cha siew bao and hundreds of other dim sum daily.
Here are some of their dim sum that we tried and regret not getting more due to our limited stomach capacity. Paper wrapped chicken($4.50), deep fried radish cake($4.50), Hong Kong crispy shrimp cheong fun($5.50), Braised pork buns ($4.50), steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce($5), steamed prawn siew mai($5), HK egg tarts($3.70), HK salted egg lotus paste buns ($3.50), custard bun($4), ting zai congee($5), claypot braised pork with preserved vegetables($13), Mala fresh prawn beancurd rolls($5), Laziji ($15) and so much more. Enjoy all these while sipping on some freshly brewed Chrysanthemum flower tea ($4 per pot) with sweet floral aroma.
They are located in an industrial building. Here’s how to get to Five Star Dim Sum: find the red building and take the lift to level 7.They also have a VIP room with a roof top view that can host up to 55 pax for big gatherings and events.
If you love dim sum, do head over to try Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum with a Live Seafood Restaurant, Hong Kong Style dai pai dong zi char and a retro vibe dining experience.
Five Star Hong Kong Style Handmade Dim Sum Address:
705 Sims Dr, #07-01,
Shun Li Industrial Complex, S387384
For enquires, pls 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, S120106
158 Meiling Street, #01-74, S140158
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