Chinatown North

I had a great lunch with my mom and dad.
It’s always good to spend time with family and enjoy a great meal.
Chinatown has been around forever.
It’s one of Austin’s Classics.

TLDR: Don't come here for the dimsum.
At the best you'll be disappointed and at worst you'll be sick. My family and I used to come to this restaurant for dimsum almost every month pre-covid for years.
It was in our dimsum rotation with New Fortune and It was a favorite of ours.
When we saw that they brought it back recently we were so excited to have it again. What we expected was the pre-covid quality and flavor that we had come to love and instead what we got was $170 worth of food items that I would be remiss to feed my pets.
Half of the dimsum we ordered was tasteless/stale (somewhat reminiscent of hot water) and the other half was naseua inducing and seemingly old or uncooked. I was the only one to eat the siu-mai out of my party because my sister and dad deduced that it was a bit too raw for their liking.
After they said that it made perfect sense to me because the only thing that was coming to my mind while eating the dumpling was that it reminded me of the smell of walking through a zoo animal exhibit. Both of the pan-fried dumplings we ordered were left mostly uneaten because all of us spit out the bites we had taken once we realized how flavorless but offensive the filling was.
The second pan-fried dumpling we had actually made me nauseated so I had to stop trying dumplings for a little while after that The quality of preparation for the dumplings was off as well.
Each dumpling was likely to fall apart as soon as you would try to pick it up because the wrapper was sticking to everything except the dumpling filling itself. The har-gow is possibly one of the most confusing aspects of this because it seems impossible to mess up.
The initial bite tasted like water and nothing else but slowly a funk we couldn't put our finger on built up in the after taste until my dad said, "you know what, this tastes like really old shrimp".
Suffice to say we spit it out and didn't eat any more. I could go on and talk about my thoughts for every single item we ate as every one disappointed me massively.
We loved the dimsum that this restaurant once had and are never going to come back here again.

This place has been one of my faves for so long it's ridiculous!!! The menu has some of my all time fave Asian favorites and the sushi is top notch.
Great draft beer selection along with sake and awesome happy hour specials.
Oh, not a place you would think would have a solid Pad Thai, but it is phenomenal here.
If you're in the North Austin area definitely stop by.