This place is on Mt. Pleasant south of Eglinton.
This place is definitely not like many of the other dim sum places around town. The menu consists of many interesting choices ranging from foie gras in pastry to some of the traditional favorites like shrimp dumplings (hah gow). Many items on the menu consisted of chinese cuisine with western influences. I must say I have never seen so much truffle used in dim sum, actually I have never seen truffle used in dim sum. The picture to the right is a $9 crab rice roll, there was no crab inside, only a small piece of crab on top.
The special items were overly expensive and not that great. The one exception was the phoenix dumpling with truffle, it was a shrimp and crab mixture wrapped in a dumpling skin with truffle on top, it was pretty good. Now, I absolutely love foie gras, but the foie gras pastry was pretty bad. The foie gras was chopped up beyond recognition, and the pastry was a deep fried ball as opposed to a pastry.
Onto the traditional items, the hah gow was done nicely but nothing special, in fact everything was okay and nothing really stood out.
Overall, it was nice but not great and relatively expensive.
Dim sum for 3 was over $120.
3 out of 5
http://www.laitohheen.com/
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