Moving away from the high end, modern dim sum places, red star restaurant is one that serves really traditional dim sum. It’s not really a place I will visit often though as I don’t really like the idea of walking around the whole restaurant just to get one or two plates of dim sum as the push cart aunties are always moving around. However, the polo bun felt sweeter when I finally managed to find it. It’s like doing a mini treasure hunt and some people may like that. A recommended place to visit if you haven’t been here but whether it’s worth another visit is really subjective. The dim sum is pretty standard over here and there are hits and misses. While most of the steamed stuff did not entice me much due to the thick and sticky skin, I was quite satisfied with the egg tarts, porridge, pudding and pleasantly surprised by the huge rotund polo bun. Still quite an interesting place to have dim sum at though.

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a belated post... 

Feels so much like the oldies... It's a refreshing feeling. Coupled with good food and nice people, it's definitely the place to have dim sum.

This is my 3rd time, i think... The last visit was a weekend last year and it was a long wait at the door. This time there wasn't any queue as i was there on a weekday. However, not all the food in the menu was available.

My baby had a great time too... also her first time picking up a spoon and putting food in her mouth herself... great

Looking forward to the next visit

I don't know the reason why this restaurant is so popular. Maybe because it provides really cheap dim sum - but at mediocre quality and at the expense of wasting time to queue up and experiencing lousy service. 

One has to queue up for a considerable amount of time (20 to 30 mins) just to get a table. At the table, it is very natural to feel lost - no one seems to bother about you, and the dim sum carts take forever to come to your table. If one isn't proactive enough to find the dim sum push-carts yourself (i.e. walk everywhere in the restaurant to find the food yourself instead of sitting at the table waiting), one can spend a good 2 hours there with only 2 plates of dim sum on the table. Why are we paying restaurant prices, when we have to "serve ourselves", and eat food that's of foodcourt standards?

The quality of food there is really mediocre and in such small portions. It's totally not worth the money. Dim sum like 猪肠粉 aren't even fresh with the still floury texture and extremely dark sauce. This isn't how it should be done. The 叉烧酥 was not even crisp at all. The porridge wasn't real Cantonese style porridge either, and came in such a small bowl. There was only century egg in it and some fritters, no shreds of pork or anything. Yet it costs almost the same as porridge in places like Crystal Jade. The spare ribs was super oily - and more bones than meat. I don't know what I was eating. The phoenix legs was also bad.

Service standards are very poor and very slow as I described above. Ambience wise - enough said. It felt more like a Chinese New Year night market at Chinatown. Noisy, rowdy, packed, stuffy.

We spent almost $80 for 4, and felt like I ate almost nothing, apart from a few pieces of hawker style food. For the same price at Crystal Jade dim sum, I can enjoy quality food and service and feel full.