Star Seafood Restaurant

Star Seafood Restaurant, located along King’s Road in North Point, is actually just minutes away from where I used to live. When we first moved to North Point, my family and I would have lunch there sometimes seeing that it was just so close and therefore so convenient for us to go there.
Star Seafood is your typical inexpensive Chinese restaurant. Huge round tables, seafood tanks and even television screens feature in a huge ballroom-​size area. My family usually came here for lunch, so we would just have dimsum. We would just get the usual stuff — shrimp dumplings, glutinous rice dumplings, spring rolls, rice rolls etc. The food here is all right — nothing spectacular, though some of the stuff is a little oily. The waiters are generally nice but sometimes will be a little impatient — understandable because the restaurant is always really busy.
The reason why we came here less and less is that my mother thought the restaurant wasn’t very hygienic. I get where she’s coming from — the table cloths are a little torn and not completely white anymore, and we’ve had to return a bowl or two to waiters and ask for a new one because there’s a bit of grime on it. And then they went under renovation, so we stopped coming at all.
After its renovation, we never came back. The idea of trying it out when it was up and running again just never really entered our heads, and plus, there were better restaurants to go to. But I’m sure the restaurant has improved in hygiene since being renovated. If you’re in the area, there’s no harm giving it a go — the dimsum may just be your average run-​of-​the-​mill dimsum, but at least it’s inexpensive!
A non-​dining related tip: you can walk through this restaurant as a cool (and I mean literally — air conditioning!) short cut to get from King’s Road to Cheung Hong Street, and the other way back. No need to walk with the crowd on the streets! The waiters don’t bat an eyelid when you’re walking right through the restaurant without eventually sitting down — I guess they’re used to people using them as a sort of passageway. I always used to walk through it in the summer just for a little bit of air conditioning before I’m out into the brutal summer heat again.