![]() ![]() I’d be remiss not to touch on Yank Sing’s service, which perhaps reigns as supreme, if not more so, than even the great food. Families, hungover young adults and business folks all come to Yank Sing It’s quite an impressive sight to behold, actually - with service moving through the indoor and mezzanine area efficiently well. On weekdays, Yank Sing has just the main restaurant open for service on weekends, the entire indoor mezzanine/patio area of the building is open for business and fully packed along with the main restaurant. Then, I’d spend six months trying everything else only to realize I miss Yank Sing - and inevitably, I’d go back and wait for my seat, then gorge on their delicious food. In the US, I had gone to many dim sum restaurants where the taste wasn’t quite that of Hong Kong, or Vancouver, where I’ve had the next most amazing dim sum - but the price also remained cheap and completely guilt-free. I had first tried dim sum in Hong Kong - where the taste is amazing and the cost is shockingly low. Paying that amount for any kind of brunch sounds ridiculous, but paying that sum for dim sum was simply unheard of in my book. Twice, I have vowed off Yank Sing, swearing I’d never come again, after brunch for two exceeded $100 before tip. More servers on carts…the most polite Chinese restaurant servers you will ever encounter. All but the truest of Chinese folks seem to come to Yank Sing I suspect the real Chinese folks think it’s ridiculous that we even come to Yank Sing instead of Hong Kong Lounge, Ton Kiang or Mayflower, where the wait is long, the food is good, but the prices are so reasonable compared to Yank Sing.Īt Yank Sing, you see people like me who come for the Shanghai Dumplings that I can’t find anywhere else, yuppie-esque folks who haven’t tried any other place and would never be caught dead going to the Richmond district, or expense account folks who don’t really care how much this costs and come just because the taste is reliable. I also run into no less than 3 other groups when I come during the weekend. On some weekends, it feels like all of San Francisco is waiting at Yank Sing, most people patiently awaiting their turn, showing a rather massive amount of patience for the chance at great food. ![]() ![]() Until Yank Sing, never have I looked at one gadget so longingly, willing it to buzz so I can be seated! As much as I hate lines, at Yank Sing – I have waited over an hour to be seated. ![]() Have you ever been to a dim sum place that hands you a gadget that will buzz you when your table is ready? No joke, what you see to the left is what Yank Sing hands you, usually telling you how long your wait will be, “It’s going to about 40 minutes.” They do, however, “under-promise and over-deliver” as my wait has always been shorter than what they guesstimate. So popular, they need these notifying machines. On San Francisco Food, I have reviewed quite a few dim sum / yumcha places in San Franciso – and will undoubtedly continue to do so, but after five years of searching, I’ve resigned to the fact that I will most certainly never find one place in San Francisco that does dim sum the way that Yank Sing does. I have gone all over this city in search of the perfect dim sum, not because I haven’t found it, but solely because where I found it costs “an arm and a leg”, if not both legs - and I have an inherent belief that the appeal of dim sum is to have tasty food that is also extremely economical. Yank Sing carts serving food in the indoor lobby patio to accommodate the crowds. ![]()
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