Who isn’t charmed by the trolley carts when it comes to finding dim sum in a Cantonese restaurant?

Established in 1980, Maxim’s Palace is a cavernous Cantonese restaurant located in City Hall near the city’s heart of Central. The grand yum cha restaurant offers the quintessential Hong Kong dim sum experience. It's cheerful, it's noisy and it takes place in a huge dining hall brimming with hundreds of locals, with blindingly bright red decor, grand chandeliers, billowing drapes and gold accents. 

Maxim’s Palace is most famous for keeping the old school dim-sum-on-trolly alive. 

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Other than the typical Har Gow (steamed shrimp dumplings 蝦餃), Siu Mai (steamed pork and shrimp dumplings 燒賣), and Cha Siu Bao (barbecued pork buns 叉燒包), which you can find in a separate article Introducing Dim Sum, the following are other popular dishes available at Maxims Palace:

Soup Dumplings(灌湯餃)

The soup of soup dumplings is made of raw scallops, with the aroma and umami taste of mushrooms. The skin is thin and not mushy. The filling is composed of crab meat, fresh mushrooms, pork and dried shrimp, full of umami taste.

Sponge Cake(馬拉糕)

Apart from the most common classics known to foreigners, the taro puffs are excellent and worth a try, with a nice gooey filling encased in a deliciously crispy puff. The glutinous rice dumplings are also very good: sticky and generous with their fillings.

Maxim's Palace opens for breakfast on Sundays from 9 am. Arriving early is advisable, as eager diners start to queue for a table at 8.30 am. While a 30-minute wait is common, early arrival, preferably before 11 am, can help avoid long lines. Enjoy a truly authentic and vibrant dining experience at Maxim's Palace in Hong Kong.