Wei Hong Seafood Restaurant

During a weekend dim sum brunch, unlike other Chinese places where about a dozen baskets arrived simultaneously just minutes after you were seated, here some dim sum dishes were cooked to order. There were still a few carts wandering in the auditorium too offering basic, ordinary items such as shumai or bbq pork buns. There were no really superior standouts among the parade of dishes we tried, but we had no complaints either.
The restaurant does a roaring trade with its own version of Peking duck. The menu also features Cantonese classics and some Sichuanese such as double-​cooked pork with celery, and spicy clay pot beef. Rumor has it that the chef departed two years ago and standards have been somewhat affected. Not sure if it’s true but dishes featuring luxury ingredients like duck tongues, venison, lobster and abalone were not available on our last visit due to discontinued supply.

This is good for St. Louis standard. I can only review on their dim sum.
Do not order the turnip cake (萝卜糕). There was hardly any turnip or other stuff in it, and it’s mostly just rice flour and corn starch. It’s entirely not edible.
Do not order the beef rice noodle rolls (肠粉). I seriously am not sure what kind of meat they used for beef. It looked like meat ball material, and did not taste like beef whatsoever. The color and texture of the meat was very similar to the meat in Shumai (烧卖).
The lotus leaves wrapped rice with chicken thingy was decent, the preserved duck egg and pork congee (皮蛋瘦肉粥) was good. The cha siu bao (叉烧包) was not bad.
Pretty good services. The waiters and waitresses were nice and friendly and patient.

I absolutely love this restaurant! I brought my family to there during the holiday season because it’s Beijing Duck. The Beijing duck doesn’t cook as the way chef cooks in Beijing, but it’s absolutely delicious. Especially the three course Beijing duck is a must-​have. Other dishes we ordered were good too. Will come back from time to time for sure.

I called ahead of time because I wanted to treat my parents to something special, and knowing how awesome Wei Hong on S Grand is, called here. I gave the time and day (Labor Day) specifically asked if they would be open on labor day. When arrived, said they weren’t open until 1 hr later, even though I specifically gave the time when I called for a reservation.
Horrible service — I had a series of questions since the menu was written mostly in Chinese, the waiter literally walked away from the table after I asked each question, (BEFORE answering the question). As I had about 10 questions to try and narrow down what I want, I had to holler back over to him, hey, I have another question EACH and EVERY time. Myself and other tables had the same experience with water refills and tea refills, we had to shout at waiters to come and do anything.
I haven’t even gotten to the food… Despite my questions, somehow everyone got food covered in gravy. Even though he didn’t mention any gravy to any of us asking questions before we ordered the dish. The appetizer was lukewarm and tasted old. You know when you heat up crab rangoon the next day, and the filling is congealed, that’s what the filling was like… super suspicious.
I had a stomache the rest of the day and the next day when I woke up.
I am the leftover queen and took my food home thinking I’d eat it the next day, maybe it was a weird fluke. When I opened the container, it smelled horrible, something was NOT right.
I think they served us day old food and covered it in gravy.
My advice, stick to the Wei Hong on S Grand, I know I will.

Dimsum is incredible. Great service. Must check out their egg tart, shrimp dumbling, sweet tofu, sparerib with black bean, beef short rib with black bean. Dim sum price is vary from $ 2 to $ 5.5

Went there for mid-​autumn festival with friends. Quite disappointed, actually. But I will go again and try other things on the menu!

Great food and good price! The pork with black bean is my favorite and they taste just perfect. Dim sum on the cart is only offered on weekend before 3pm. Other time is based on order, and you would need to ask for the dim sum menu. I guess they don’t hand it to you because it takes time to cook. Just ask for it :-)

Sorry for this one. We entered this place on Sunday went in the restroom to wash our hands, we both came out horrified at the condition of the place.
Looks like they forgot to clean up after a drunken party.
We left and went to LuLu’s down the street. Always a good experience there.

Kat V. and I met for dim sum lunch March 21. We got shu mai, beef tendons, shrimp ball and something else I don’t know.
I was glad forks were on the table.
The food was good, but the beef tendons had a lot of fat and bone. But good taste. The rest was A-​OK.
Service was impeccable.
And, yes, this establishment is in an old theatre. Redux works!

The dining area is not always open. Only on holidays. It looks super creepy in there because they have theater/​like stage. I’m not sure if they use it or not but I usually just get a few of their foodies from here. I’ve never experienced their dim sum before but would love to.
5 stars for delicious peeking duck!!! I usually frequent here! Love their peeking duck and bbq buns! All their other pastries are just ok! I would love to buy and eat others but it seems like every time I do it would taste old and stale. I usually buy the foods that I know is popular and made daily.

Best won ton soup in the region. This is the only Chinese Restaurant in Saint Louis I can go to and receive meals that are as good as what my grandmother makes (even my Chinese grandmother agrees!). Great Southern Chinese food at very affordable prices.
The restaurant is in an old theatre with a very colorful history that has been converted for large banquets and events as well as the restaurant. There is a disco ball hanging from the ceiling and some of the most beautiful Chinese calligraphy I have ever seen on the walls.
The large round tables have lazy susans and the service is quick and friendly. They have a very reasonably prices lunch menu and their dinner prices are competitive.
Check out the bakery next door in the same building for excellent roast duck and baked treats.

I spent the summer in Guangzhou and am constantly on the look out for good dim sum in St. Louis, which is a struggle. I have been to Wonton King and Mandarin House, and finally ended up at Wei Hong today. I think that Wei Hong is the best out of the 3 that I have tried, and will be back,
My Chinese friend who I went with is from the bay area, and thus also has high standards. We loves the Shu Mai and the I particularly liked the Shrimp dumplings. It seemed a lot fresher than many of the other dim sum dishes I’ve had in this area. The dumplings seemed to be hit or miss– he liked some and I like others, although we both agreed that the lotus-​wrapped sticky rice was pretty mediocre. The sesame balls were also on point and this is by far my favorite Chang Fen that I’ve had in the US. I wish they had more vegetable dishes.
The environment is amazing. The calligraphy is beautiful and the ambiance of the place makes it very fun to dine at. The dim sum carts were rolling around quite often– almost too much– and it was very easy to get our food. We went at around noon on a Sunday so I was surprised how few people were there. I’ve noticed some other Unilocalers talking about cool dishes I wish I had seen, but I guess they weren’t offered today. The little old ladies were very nice and personable to us. The service was attentive and I felt very well taken care of.
I also saw many of the other non-​dim sum dishes and they not only looked/​smelled amazing but also seemed to be EXTREMELY generous portions. I was super full and still wanted to eat them. Most of the patrons were Chinese and spoke with the hostesses in Mandarin. The dim sum seemed to be on par with pricing for dim sum in the area, maybe a little cheaper than Wonton King and more expensive than Mandarin House, but I can’t be sure because of the pricing system.
I really enjoyed my dining experience here and am looking forward to returning.

Yum. We had a 7 course lunch, and all the dishes were spaced out nicely. Everything from the veggies to the meats were delicious. I liked that we got peanuts as appetizers and oranges for dessert.

It was just ok. Ordered several dim sum and it was pretty good, I’ve had better. The duck tongue dish is flavorful but the small tongues are very hard to eat and little meat/​grizzle on them. How do you get a hold of soo many duck tongues anyhow?
The ambiance is an old theater, and reminds me of a place where they would’ve played old XXX movies though. But I digress, back to food. We all shared the pecking duck 3 course dinner. The skin and leg platter was ok, served with chips and flour shells. I wish the skin was crispy, would’ve been much better. The second was duck meat served chopped up for lettuce wraps, that was good. The third was soup with the leftover bones and tofu and veggies. This was good but it was missing some flavor notes, needs some depth and heat.

I love coming here with a large group so we can share different dishes. There is plenty of seating and no reservation is required unless your group is more than 30 people.
If you are new to dim sum, be sure to come with someone experienced or else you will have a hard time not just with the ordering but also taking a bite into each mysterious slimy looking thing.

I’ve been here twice in the past month and neither of them were on days that they have the dim sum carts. However, we ordered from the dim sum menu, which I really like because
a) their dim sum menu has pictures for people who don’t know the names of all their favorite dim sum dishes and who can’t read Chinese as well as they should (like me)
and b) it means they make everything when you order it (so it’s fresh).
Dim sum (and other dishes we ordered):
Fried green beans with pork sauce — amazing
Clear noodles with beef and bean sprouts — very good
Radish cakes — decent
Chicken feet — flavored well, but I’m still not a fan of all the little bones
Steamed pork buns (cha sao bao) — husband loved them
Shrimp dumplings (har gow /​xia jiao) — good
Sticky rice wrapped in lotus flower and steamed — one of my favorites… I could come here and order two or three of these and eat them all by myself for a whole meal and I would be completely satisfied
Pork/​shrimp dumpings (shu mai) — my friend who had these for the first time, he described these are heavenly
The service was slightly better than your average Chinese restaurant. We were greeted and seated quickly and the food didn’t take too long to come out.
Also, the friendly boss lady gave us free dessert because my mom was talking to her in Chinese and telling her all about how her little baby girl (yep, me, in my mid-​twenties) just moved to St. Louis. Anyway, she seemed to like us and gave us a sweet dessert soup with tiny tapioca balls. Yummy!

Would have been a three star review, but the chang fun was so fresh and yummy and that’s my favorite thing.
This was just a surreal experience. This place could be featured in a Stephen King book that is made into a movie. Its in what used to be a theater — where the seats used to be is where the restaurant is.
The food was pretty good. I don’t know if it was because we were late for dim sum but they would offer us things off the menu or describe them to us and then go to the back to make them if we consented to trying them. The good part was that we got everything made fresh; the bad part was we couldn’t actually see most of it before we agreed to try it. Still, the descriptions were good so not too many issues with that.
They also made Teen 1 an extra portion of the coconut cake to go since she liked it so much. That was a nice touch that was much appreciated.
We were the only non-​Asians in the place, which is always a good sign.
I’ll be back for some chang fun and coconut cake; maybe try to go earlier so i can see if they do more with carts.

This dim sum experience was a little surreal but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I was interested in trying some place we had never been so I perused the reviews and lists before settling on two choices — the wife made the final decision.
I read through the reviews before narrowing it down to the two that she chose from and decided that the objections noted largely fell into the following categories:
1. People who did not have dim sum — I discounted them immediately as there can be a wide gap between the dim sum experience and the lunch/​dinner dining experience.
2. People who do not understand dim sum — I discounted their perspective on everything but the food because they had actually tasted what I wanted to taste.
3. People who are dim sum aficionados — I treated their opinions like gold as long as they were established Unilocalers.
So…on to the review…
We decided on dim sum but the women in my family dragged their collective asses so long that a 12:30 arrival looked sadly optimistic by the time we left the house. My very strong preference is to arrive quite a bit earlier so that everything is fresh and hasn’t been riding around on the carts for an hour or more. You will understand this concern if you enjoy Hong Kong style dim sum. It is all hand-​made and in most places they do run out of things. The teen drove and we had a bit of trouble finding the place which led to an even longer delay in arrival. Still, we walked right in and were seated immediately. I attribute this to the fact that we were the only people in the dining room initially. I asked the woman who seated us if we would be able to get fresh dim sum and she assured me that we would. This was the beginning of the surreality.
There was a considerable number of staff clearing and re-​setting tables so I am guessing that we had arrived shortly after their Saturday rush had departed. Regardless, a woman appeared with a cart even before our beverages arrived. The wife quickly grabbed a couple of items off the cart and I picked one that looked especially good — shrimp & scallop steamed dumpling. The interesting thing about my first bite was that the noodle had a really good taste and consistency. The filling was good and tasted very fresh but I kept flashing back to the noodle — it was simply better tasting and had a more appealing consistency than most of the places we go.
A few minutes later the same woman appeared with a different cart full of stuff. I picked out the bbq pork buns that I like and tried a bite. Rather than the red pork that you typically find these buns had a shredded pork barbeque inside of them. The pork was good but what was amazing was how fresh and flavorful the rice flour bun dough tasted. Once again, the starch stole the show.
About this point in the meal, a waitress turned up with their picture menu. I picked out a couple of things and was told that it would be a few minutes because they had to make those items in the kitchen. Also, a woman showed up and pitched several items to the wife that weren’t on the menu. She bit on the notion of shrimp & tofu and then the woman said «ok, I’ll go make it for you.» Absolutely surreal!
Other dishes came and went. Some we loved, others weren’t a great hit. When we were finally finished the kid decided on a dessert. She liked it quite a bit so the lady who pushes the cart around simply brought her one in a go container. She also took home an entire order of pot stickers which she ate with dinner and declared delicious.
As we walked out I noticed that there were several Chinese families in the restaurant having dim sum — none of which I saw on the carts or on the picture menu. Surreal…

Came here for my dad’s birthday dinner because he’s a total foodie’s nightmare who’d rather eat mediocre midwest quality chinese food than opening up his tastebuds to the vast culinary wonders the world outside of generic chinese restaurants has to offer.
Anyway, chose Wei Hong because pops wanted peking duck, and WH turned out to be one of the best bets in STL. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the food quality and above average asian-​restaurant-​level service.
Food:
–BBQ combo appetizer with bbq pork and jellyfish, well-​prepared standard cantonese bbq pork, and really refreshing jellyfish with a subtle spicy kick
–Braised beef and tofu beancurd casserole, I thought this was delicious and super flavorful despite some beef chunks being too fatty, parents thought the tofu beancurd was undercooked
–Peking duck (½ duck courses), more authentic than Lulu’s with the crispy duck skin, also came with 4 crispy duck thighs, steamed buns/​hoison sauce/​cucumbers/​onion for wrapping; I thought they had those asian pancakes made specifically for wrapping the peking duck but turns out they just had generic tortilla wraps, peking duck ghettofied…
–Stir fried duck with lettuce wraps (²⁄₂ duck course), the stir fried duck cubes were too salty, parents also complained that they were overcooked
Service:
–Very friendly and patient for a typical chinese restaurant, much appreciated especially since I flew in redeye in the morning and was in a super over-​worked/​menopausal state of mind by dinner time
Bonus star:
–I asked them to make my dad some sort of a special birthday dessert that’s low on sugar, the lady whipped up a freshly-​made beautiful asian fruit cake at the end of dinner, really delicious and light-​tasting, pops loved the little impromptu dinner surprise and they only charged me $ 20 for the 8″ cake

We took my grandmother here for her 80^th Birthday lunch earlier this month. She originally wanted to go and do fried fish at Hatfield’s but they were too far away for us since we had other appointments to keep. I used my trusty Unilocal app to find a place that was nearby and highly rated and found this restaurant. I loved the theater atmosphere and the old highly intricate furniture.
The staff was very nice. My grandmother wanted a coffee and they modified their Vietnamese coffee to satisfy her very straightforward taste buds. Then when she tried to order a Saint Paul Sandwich even thought it was not on the menu, they knew what it was and recommended Egg Foo Young instead.
Although the wait was at least 20 minutes during a relatively slow lunch hour, the food was fresh and hot and generally pretty good. I felt that my Chicken with Cashews was a little bland with too many pieces of celery. However, I also tasted the Kung Pao Chicken which was spicy and yummy with a better balance of vegetables. The soups were above par for me. The Crab Rangoons, Egg Foo Young, Pork Dumplings, and Coconut Dumplings were acceptable but nothing to write home to grandma about.
Overall, I plan to bring my mom and try out the Dim Sum the next time I am in St. Louis.