Visit #1 ·
★★★★★First visit, so no baseline yet — but I've been to enough dim sum spots in the SGV to know what I'm looking for before I even sit down.
Westwood's an interesting choice for dim sum. You're not in the usual corridor for it, so I came in curious rather than skeptical. The room is straightforward — round tables, lazy susans, the kind of setup that means they're serious about the format even if the location feels a little out of place.
Went with the standard first-visit spread: har gow, siu mai, char siu bao, turnip cake, and cheung fun with shrimp. That lineup tells you almost everything. The har gow wrapper had the right translucency and didn't tear when I picked it up — that's not a given, and it matters. Siu mai was dense in a good way, not padded out, and the shrimp was actually identifiable inside it. The char siu bao was the weakest of the group — filling was fine but the dough was a touch thick, slightly gummy on the bottom like it sat before it got to us.
Turnip cake had a good crust on it. Someone let it sit on the griddle long enough, which I respect. Cheung fun was soft and delicate, sauce wasn't overpowering.
Service was cart-style, which I prefer — you can see what you're getting before it lands on the table. The pacing was decent for a Sunday mid-morning.
I didn't catch a total because I split it three ways and someone else grabbed the check, which is the one gap in my receipt collection I'll admit to. Rough estimate, $18-22 a person.
Promising first visit. The technique is there. Third visit will tell me if the kitchen is consistent or if I just caught them on a good day.