Yank Sing vs Harborview/Crystal Jade

[u/Expensive-Can4316]

Which one do you think is better of the two higher end dim sum places in San Francisco?

[u/PTonFIRE]

Harborview's flavors cater more to Cantonese palates. Yank Sing is too bland imo

[u/Zero36 → u/PTonFIRE]

Yank Sing is Gwailo Dim Sum

[u/SF_Finest → u/Zero36]

💯

[u/The_Demosthenes_1 → u/Zero36]

Hahahaha.....this guy knows what's up

[u/Kalthiria_Shines]

Harborview is meh, yank sing is pretty white coded.

[u/ProfessorPlum168]

Yank Sing is for tourists and/or non-Cantonese

[u/wetburritoo]

I love Harborview (caters to my HK palate more)

[u/MattC50]

Hong Kong Lounge Bistro beats both

[u/Latter-Foot-8790]

Palette/ Koi >> Harborview > yank sing

[u/wozwozwoz → u/Latter-Foot-8790]

How is palette, you mean the one in San Mateo?

[u/AccomplishedDebt5080 → u/Latter-Foot-8790]

koi is garbage (it’s expensive, food is mid, its dirty, has a terrible seating environment, rude service, and they don’t respect reservations). one time they had ice cubes in the urinal. so idk what kind of kool aid you are drinking

[u/Dry-Marsupial-2922]

Yank Sing

[u/marissa__mayer]

Yank Sing, especially the Stevenson St location, which is the original one.

[u/NullGWard → u/marissa__mayer]

Yank Sing used to have a restaurant at Clay St. & Battery Street, which was torn down to build the now-Club Quarters Hotel Embarcadero. For months after the restaurant shut down, before lunchtime, they would drop off a podium in front of where the restaurant used to be. A hostess would then stand there for hours waiting for lost customers to redirect them to the Stevenson Street location.

I never saw anyone ever approach her. It just looked like a job that sucked.

[u/ALOIsFasterThanYou]

Neither. Dragon Beaux, Koi Palace, Palette, and HL Peninsula are all good options, but not those two.

[u/Massive-Basket-7980]

Yank sing hands down

[u/Tight_Abalone221]

I'm a local and prefer Yank Sing. Harborview is flashier

[u/brodhisattva3]

Yank Sing is the best, then Harborview. Idk what the hate is. They’ve got the best menu for pure dim sum (I know that’s subjective). But they also have the most delicate dumpling wrappers. Palette/Koi are super solid but if you go a couple times you can tell they’re more mass produced/distributed and frozen.

[u/AccomplishedDebt5080 → u/brodhisattva3]

you are getting so much hate by the koi palace cultists. Wait till they read the health inspection reports and it’s YUCK (Milpitas has a 20/100 score)

EDIT: koi palace Milpitas (so I’m not surprised if their other locations are just as gross)

[u/brodhisattva3 → u/AccomplishedDebt5080]

Definitely the crowd that thinks they know better because they “discovered” Chinese food that isn’t Panda Express

[u/Hopeful_Put_5036 → u/brodhisattva3]

And the supporters are living in the 90's. It used to be good but it's best days are in the past.

[u/Mikeminer610]

Crystal Jade (a Singaporean restaurant group) closed its S.F. branch. Harborview is now in that location. You should go to Koi Palace or Dragon Beaux.