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Best Dim Sum Restaurants in Hong Kong 2026
Dim Sum · Hong Kong · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 20, 2026 · Updated June 20, 2026
In 2009 Lung King Heen, on the fourth floor of the Four Seasons, became the first Chinese restaurant anywhere to earn three Michelin stars — and turned the daytime ritual of yum cha, tea and small plates, into something the rest of the world flew in for. It carries two stars now, but the point stands: Hong Kong is the place where dim sum is taken most seriously, where a har gow's translucent skin and a char siu bao's filling are judged the way a sommelier judges a vintage. The best rooms are in hotels, perched over the harbour or a hundred floors up, and the canon — shrimp dumplings, pork-and-shrimp siu mai, barbecue-pork buns, rice rolls, egg tarts — is held to a standard found nowhere else. Ranked on the cooking, the room and what the bill buys, with the plate to order at each.
1.Lung King Heen
The Four Seasons room that won Chinese cooking its first three stars; book a harbour-view lunch for the city's benchmark dim sum.
Lung King Heen, on the fourth floor of the Four Seasons in Central, made history in 2009 as the first Chinese restaurant in the world to hold three Michelin stars; it carries two in the 2026 guide and remains the city's reference point for refined Cantonese cooking. The dim sum lunch is the reason most visitors come: baked barbecue-pork buns with a sugar-crackle top, steamed lobster-and-shrimp dumplings, and a procession of the classics executed with a precision few rooms match, all served beside a wall of glass looking across Victoria Harbour. It is polished, expensive and worth it. Book several days ahead for a window table at weekend lunch. This is the dim sum meal to build a Hong Kong trip around.
Reserve days ahead for weekend lunch; the baked char siu bao, the lobster dumplings, a harbour table.
2.Tin Lung Heen
Two-star Cantonese a hundred floors above Kowloon; book a clear-day lunch for dim sum with the best view in the city.
Tin Lung Heen sits on the 102nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton in the International Commerce Centre, the tallest building in Hong Kong, and the arrival — a dedicated elevator, doors opening onto a view that runs to the edge of the harbour — is part of the two-Michelin-star experience. The kitchen cooks refined, classical Cantonese: barbecue pork made with Ibérico, delicate dim sum at lunch, double-boiled soups and roast meats. On a clear day the dim sum lunch here is the most dramatic in the city, the steamers arriving while the harbour and the peak fill the windows. Book ahead and ask for a window table, and time it for daylight. This is the sky-high counterpoint to Lung King Heen's harbour-level glamour.
Reserve ahead, window table, daytime; the Ibérico char siu, the lunch dim sum, a clear-day view.
3.Yan Toh Heen
The harbourfront grande dame with jade table settings; book a waterline lunch for two-star dim sum at eye level with the skyline.
Yan Toh Heen, on the lower level of the InterContinental in Tsim Sha Tsui, is the most legendary Cantonese room in the city, a two-Michelin-star institution famous for its jade table settings and a wall of glass that sits almost at the waterline, looking straight across at the Hong Kong Island skyline. Where Tin Lung Heen gives you the view from above, Yan Toh Heen gives it to you at eye level, the Star Ferries crossing as the steamers arrive. The cooking is classical and exacting — refined dim sum at lunch, seafood and barbecue meats at dinner — with the polish of a hotel that has done this for decades. Book a harbour table for lunch, several days ahead. The combination of room, view and dumpling is hard to beat.
Reserve a harbour table for lunch; the steamed dim sum, the seafood, the skyline at the waterline.
4.Spring Moon
The Peninsula's art-deco Cantonese room and its house XO sauce; book it for classic dim sum in the city's grandest hotel.
Spring Moon, inside The Peninsula in Tsim Sha Tsui, is the one-Michelin-star Cantonese room of Hong Kong's grandest hotel, an art-deco space of dark wood and stained glass where chef Lam Yuk Ming cooks the classics with a connoisseur's touch. The kitchen is the original home of the now-ubiquitous XO sauce, and its dim sum lunch — and the tea-pairing menus the room is known for — are among the most traditional on this list, served with the Peninsula's old-world ceremony. Set menus run to around HK$1,980 at the top end, the splurge among these rooms. Book ahead for lunch, ask about the tea pairing, and order the dishes built on the house XO. This is dim sum as colonial-era grandeur, beautifully kept.
Reserve ahead for lunch; the dim sum sets, anything with the house XO sauce, the tea pairing.
5.Fook Lam Moon
The tycoons' canteen since 1948; go to Wan Chai for old-school dim sum and roast goose where the city's power brokers eat.
Fook Lam Moon has fed Hong Kong's tycoons, film stars and power brokers from its Wan Chai flagship since 1948, and it is the most storied traditional Cantonese house in the city — the room locals call the "millionaires' canteen." This is not a hotel view restaurant; it is old-money Cantonese cooking done without compromise: a celebrated crispy-skin roast goose, deep-fried prawn dumplings, and a dim sum lunch that regulars have ordered the same way for decades. The service knows its long-time guests, and the prices climb for the luxury items, but the dim sum is a fair entry into a genuine institution. Book ahead for lunch and order broadly across the trolley, with the roast goose for the table. This is where Hong Kong's establishment actually eats.
Reserve ahead for lunch; the roast goose, the prawn dumplings, a wide spread of dim sum.
6.Mott 32
The Central bank-basement room for modern dim sum and a 42-day Peking duck; book it for a design-forward dim sum dinner.
Mott 32, in the basement of the Standard Chartered Bank building in Central, is the design-forward modern Cantonese room on this list, a dramatic, dimly lit space that turned into an international brand on the strength of its cooking. The signatures are a 42-day apple-wood-roasted Peking duck carved tableside, and a refined take on dim sum — the soft quail-egg siu mai with Ibérico pork and black truffle is the room's calling card. Unlike the hotel rooms, Mott 32 serves its dim sum into the evening as well as at lunch, which makes it the pick when you want the small plates as part of a dinner rather than a daytime ritual. Book ahead, order the duck and the truffle siu mai, and treat it as a night out. The most contemporary dim sum in the city.
Reserve ahead, lunch or dinner; the 42-day Peking duck, the quail-egg siu mai with truffle.
How Hong Kong eats dim sum
Dim sum in Hong Kong is yum cha — literally "drink tea" — a daytime ritual of small steamed and fried plates ordered to share over endless pots of tea. The form splits into two worlds. There are the old teahouses and traditional houses like Fook Lam Moon, where the trolleys and the canon have not changed in decades, and there are the Michelin-starred hotel rooms — Lung King Heen, Tin Lung Heen, Yan Toh Heen, Spring Moon — where the same classics are executed with fine-dining precision and a harbour or sky view. A complete picture of the city uses both: a grand hotel lunch, and a no-frills trolley meal where the regulars eat.
A few mechanics. Dim sum is a lunch meal at most of these rooms; the hotel kitchens switch to full Cantonese à la carte at dinner, while Mott 32 carries dim sum into the evening. Tea is part of the meal, not an afterthought — you will be asked which leaf you want, and a refill is signalled by leaving the pot lid ajar. Tipping is modest; a service charge is usually added. Weekend lunch is the busiest and most atmospheric, and the best rooms book several days out for a window table. For the rest of the city's Cantonese cooking and beyond, the Hong Kong dining guide maps it by neighborhood and occasion.
Where not to look for it
Skip these for serious dim sum
The frozen-dumpling tourist cafés in Tsim Sha Tsui's busiest blocks. The rooms aimed squarely at cruise crowds reheat factory dumplings and charge for the location. Walk into any room on this list, or seek out a proper neighborhood teahouse, instead.
Lung King Heen or Tin Lung Heen for a quick, cheap bite. These are reserved-ahead, hotel-priced rooms built around a view and the ceremony of a long lunch. When you want fast, honest dim sum without the production, point yourself at Fook Lam Moon or a local trolley house.
Frequently asked
What is the best dim sum in Hong Kong?
For the headline meal, Lung King Heen at the Four Seasons is the city's most famous dim sum room, a two-Michelin-star Cantonese kitchen whose baked barbecue-pork buns and steamed lobster dumplings set the standard. Tin Lung Heen at the Ritz-Carlton and Yan Toh Heen at the InterContinental, both also two stars, run it close with sky-high and harbourfront settings. For a classic Peninsula lunch, Spring Moon is the one-star pick. Choose by the room as much as the trolley — all four cook dim sum at the top level.
When is dim sum served in Hong Kong?
Dim sum — the small steamed and fried plates eaten with tea, a ritual the locals call yum cha — is a daytime meal, traditionally served from mid-morning through lunch and into the early afternoon. The hotel rooms on this list, like Lung King Heen and Tin Lung Heen, serve dim sum at lunch and switch to a full Cantonese à la carte at dinner. Older teahouses run dim sum from breakfast. Go for lunch, book ahead on a weekend, and expect families and the trolley culture at its busiest.
How much does dim sum cost in Hong Kong?
A dim sum lunch at the two-Michelin-star hotel rooms — Lung King Heen, Tin Lung Heen, Yan Toh Heen — runs roughly HK$500 to HK$900 per person before drinks, with set lunches at the lower end. Spring Moon at the Peninsula offers sets around HK$1,980 at the top. Fook Lam Moon and Mott 32 sit a notch below the hotel flagships for a dim sum lunch. By the standards of three-star dining these are gentle prices for the cooking and the rooms.
What dim sum dishes should I order?
The canon is fixed: har gow (steamed shrimp dumplings), siu mai (pork-and-shrimp dumplings), char siu bao (barbecue-pork buns, baked or steamed), cheung fun (rice-noodle rolls) and an egg tart to finish. Each room has a signature — Lung King Heen's baked barbecue-pork buns, Mott 32's soft quail-egg siu mai with Iberico pork and black truffle, Spring Moon's dishes built around its house XO sauce. Order the classics first, then the room's specialty, and drink tea throughout.
Do you need a reservation for dim sum in Hong Kong?
For the Michelin-starred hotel rooms, yes — Lung King Heen, Tin Lung Heen, Yan Toh Heen and Spring Moon all book up for weekend lunch and should be reserved several days to a week ahead, longer for a window table. Fook Lam Moon and Mott 32 also take reservations and fill at peak times. Weekday lunches are easier. Book a harbour-view table where the room offers one, and aim for an early or late lunch seating to avoid the crush.
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