Sun Hing Restaurant

YES
I was here at what people seem to say is a peak hour-​330am on a Saturday morning – and it was «chaotic» but not unpleasant. Just a nice clattering mess.
And the food is delicious. The salted egg buns that everyone mentions are wonderful; the sweet sponge bread is delicious; the chicken’s feet; the shumai. It’s a fun, messy, lovely experience. Try it out.

Chaos. Pure chaos. I love it.
This place has been around for years and believe it or not, this is a step up from the original location!
Walk right in, sit yourself down wherever you and your dining companions can fit or just linger and basically hover over people until they finish their meal.
The table may or may not get a wipe down. I’ve seen the ladies use the side of a chopstick to run across the table to clear it of bones and scraps.
Your bowls, plates, teacups, and utensils will arrive in a large bowl. Clean/​rinse everything in the hot tea. Now you’re ready to eat!
If you don’t hear your dish being called or see it pass by, you can always go to the front table where they arrange take out orders and grab it from there. Don’t forget your paper so your dish can be marked down accordingly.
Everything we tried here was good. In particular, the bun with the sweet/​salty molten egg yolk.
Eat everything. Eat well. Enjoy!

This is the place for students to come for 3 am dim sum. If you are an HKU student, you will know about this place.
Now let me just clarify I’ve been here at 3am and I’ve been here at 11am before and it’s basically two different restaurants. I would recommend for you to come here at 3am to really experience the HKU lifestyle and see all the students who come down in their hall tees.
The food is not bad, especially after a hard night… of studying. Everyone gets the custard buns which are really to die for. Most of their food is pretty good and has consistent flavours.
They have congee which is pretty good too.
Come here for 3 am dim sum. Just trust me.
Tip: They open at 2 am but come around 1:50 to get a good spot next to the steaming steamers because you will need to get there before all the big groups of students do. And they are GRABBERS so beware!

Whether you’re a student at HKU, a retiree, an HK movie star, or are drunk off your ass, there’s one thing you come to Sun Hing for, and that’s the egg custard buns. Yeah, there are other items you can get but forget them, because you come here for one thing: the buns. Repeat after me: the buns.
Steaming hot, and pillowy soft, these crack buns are laced with a golden ratio of duck and chicken eggs, sugar, salt and most likely drugs and MSG. But who cares. When you bite into one, you’ll probably get some molten liquid egg rolling off your face, but that doesn’t matter because you’ve just burned your mouth with the most delicious thing you’ve had for months.
These buns are literally called ‘quicksand buns’ if you translate directly from Chinese. Most likely because once you have one, you’ll be on that slippery slope to obesity because you’ll keep coming back for these delicious little calorie bombs over and over. Especially after you’re drunk off your ass.
Wanna order some but don’t speak Chinese?
Pro tip: egg custard buns = lao saa bao

Good food, debatable service. The sweet egg custard bun is delicious — fresh, warm, oozing with dense custard. Service is u fortunately inconsistent — of the serval times I’ve been here I’d say that I was, sadly, only served properly two of the four times. The first time I came around 2am; second time 11am; third and fourth were both around ¾am.
Waiters, servers, hosts, and cooks all scramble about in a disorganized manner. It’s hard to tell in fact whether you’re supposed to wait to be served. However after sitting impatiently for 10 minutes my friends and I looked next to our neighboring table of locals — they were all walking up to the dimsum dishes and serving themselves. Alright then. NOTE: All utensils, plates, and tea cups MUST be washed yourself under hot water to ensure hygiene. I’m sure this review makes this place sound none at all desirable BUT really why do I keep coming back? Because it’s worth it. The concept that it’s one of the rarest late-​night dimsum places (opens @ 2:30am) I’d say the craziness adds all the more to the «local Hong Kong experience.» It’s a sort of adventure, having «late night /​early morning» dimsum — perfect for college students! Would recommend coming here for a taste of authenticity!

came here for take out dim sun. staff were friendly even though I don’t speak English. Someone who came in after me and try to cut in front of me. the staff stopped that person and helped me with me order. I was happy for this because this same scenario has happened to me many times in HK. (people are rude here!)
food were tasty I will be back again.

This dim sum restaurant is known for opening at 3am. If you’re here around that time, the place will be packed (yes, packed) with a mix of taxi and bus drivers, HKU students, drunk foreigners after a night out in LKF, and local people getting started with their day. One of my friends spotted Eason Chan here once too.
This place has the best 流沙包 (runny custard bun) in the world. If you’re in Hong Kong, it’s worth it to wake up early and make the journey all the way out to this place just for that.
Most of the food can be found on the side of the restaurant, stacked up in the bamboo trays. You can just pick up whatever you feel like getting yourself and then they’ll add it up for you at the end. Some other items (particularly the custard buns) will have to be requested from the staff walking around.
The people working here early in the morning aren’t really friendly. I mean, I’d totally be grouchy too if I was up that early dealing with certain crowds. But they were never outright rude to me. They even helped us take pictures of our group once.

This spot is seriously legit. Being from out of town, I would not have known about this spot. But luckily, I was brought here by a local that just happens to love food just as equally and also happens to be my brother.
First, don’t expect first-​class service. If you see a spot to sit, take it. No one will ask you how many are in your party or give you a number to wait, it’s first come first serve. Once they see you’ve taken a seat, they will come ask you for your tea preference and give you a bowl of hot water to rinse your eating bowl and utensils.
Second, don’t expect someone to ask you for your order. Be alert with your surroundings — watch what’s being brought out on the trays. If you see what you like, call out for it and they’ll come by. You snooze, you’ll definitely lose.
Third, just enjoy! The best plates are the 流沙飽 (steamed bun with runny and sweet yolky custard) and spare ribs over rice. Freaking delish!

3 am dim sum means you can get an early morning breakfast, but have to hover around to wait for someone to get up to find a seat due to local popularity. everything high turnover and fresh with strong classic flavors and very cheap price. less chaotic than lin heung. the special item is the runny custard bun 流沙奶黃飽 with the delightful combo of salty sweet runny inside. steamed beef ball 山竹牛肉球 still with the strong dry tangerine peel flavor. 咖哩金錢肚 pork tripe curry sauce was very soft and flavorful. however, overall dishes are not very refined (like thicker cheung fun), but tasty. we ordered every dish to share among 5 people and only came to a little under 500 hkd. quite a bargain.

This is totally good dim sum… I went on a random Tuesday morning and sat amongst a bunch of older Cantonese men drinking tea and reading their newspapers all while the cook shouts the next dish fresh off the steamer… Totally good shumai and glutinous rice balls filled with chicken and totally filled up on $ 40 worth of food.

What’s the best place to eat after a crazy night out at LKF? Tsui Wah on Wellington Street is where most people go and the 24 hours Ichiran ramen seems to be the new dining spot. However, I prefer going to Sun Hing Restaurant in Kennedy Town for dim sum. It costs around $ 40 for a cab ride from LKF, best to share cab to pay less.
Opens at 3am Monday to Sunday, Sun Hing is a famous teahouse, where you can always find elderly enjoying super early breakfast (brekkie at 3am). However, it’s becoming more popular and even attracting the younger generation to have dim sum after partying. You can’t find fancy menu or top-​notch services here but they do have some really nice dim sum and tea for you to rehydrate after a few hours of dancing and consumption of alcohol. Their freshly made runny egg yolk custard bun is simply irresistible. I can’t help but easily devour 3 to 4 buns every time I visit. Apart from their classic custard bun, deep fried milk is another interesting yet delicious item that you can’t possibly miss. The greasiness from their deep fried goodies is perhaps something you need to help soak up the alcohol.
Let’s go party and have scrumptious dim sum afterwards, only if you are not deadly drunk though.