205 - 1665 West Broadway604-734-1668
Atmosphere - Dim sum is served between the hours of 9am and 3pm. The restaurant is jammed packed during the weekend with hungry diners, especially busy during and after lunch time. Chongqing has one very large main dining room that looks out onto West Broadway plus two additional, cosier rooms at the back of the restaurant. During dim sum hours the food items are wheeled around on carts by waitresses who shout out what the particular item is. Usually we just end up trying whatever comes by because it gets so busy you may not get a cart to come a while or it will be empty when it gets to your table.
Service - During dim sum hours it can be quite chaotic, probably because of too many tables for the staff to contend with but they do their best. Patrons at different tables compete with each other to get the cart to their table and then find out what the waitress has. If you have specific dietary requirements and you don't eat meat (I would not recommend this restaurant for strict vegetarians) you can usually order certain items off of the dim sum menu, though you must remind the staff of your order.
Food - On the dim sum menu you can find any thing from pork to chicken feet to shrimp dumplings. I usually go for the shrimp dumplings, Gai Lan, which has to be ordered, plus spring rolls. They usually provide some tea and a side of hot chili sauce which is good mixed with soy sauce.
Whom to take - Take your friends or out of town guests for a weekend brunch. Be sure you have a bit of time to spare.
Value for Money - Good, each dim sum item is $2.
