Farm House, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Another Sunday lunch at a dim sum restaurant, again in a commercial high rise tower (which is a common sight in this town). There was enough space in this eatery for us to be sat in a comfortably sized table. The seats had cream coloured upholstery that had visible tea stains on it, though. We ordered through waiter service. Typically you order dim sum dishes by the steamed basket, which contain about four pieces, but this restaurant allows you to order individually, which is a good thing for limiting food wastage.

Our Teapot with Warmer

The first dish to arrive was the Chicken Wing shown below, which is their speciality. It had a glutinous rice stuffed inside a crispy skin. This  was the first time I had tried this and was really good.

Chicken Wing with stuffed rice

The next two dishes to arrive are shown below. The Har Gow pastry was a little too sticky but the prawn filling was tasty enough, and the Fried Beancurd Roll was crispy without being special.

Fried Beancurd Roll (right) and Har Gow

Shanghai Dumpling (Siu Long Bao) came next and that was excellent. They were a sizeable portions that had a lovely broth along with the pork meat stuffing that had crab roe mixed in for extra flavour. Siu mai were big, meaty portions as well.

Siu Long Bao and Siu Mai

We had Spring Rolls of two varieties as they got our order wrong the first time round. The first (incorrect) one had taro in it and the second one had turnip cake filling. Both were different but I prefer the standard meat and vegetable filling.

Spring Roll I

Spring Roll II

The Runny Custard Bun (not pictured) was served very hot and the custard was scalding when it spurted out after biting into it, so here is a Health & Safety warning to readers.

As well as getting our orders wrong with the spring rolls they delivered an incorrect dish as well. Plus little things like not lighting the tea candle under our pot to keep it warm comes to mind when considering the service from this restaurant.

This place was quite expensive compared with other dim sum restaurants. Some of their items are good and a bit unique but overall not warranting a repeat visit soon.

Scores:

Food: 3/5

Presentation: 3/5

Service: 2/5

Setting: 3/5

Overall: 11/20

Total Bill: $417, about £17 a head.

I ate: All of the above.

I drank: Iron Buddha Tea  Water.

I wore: Sunday Polo Shirt.