Red Star Restaurant
be served the traditional way


After realising that Wah Lok at Carlton Hotel was fully booked, i suggested this place as an alternative for a mother's day lunch with my paternal grandmother. The crowd here was shocking, and we had to join in a long queue before getting seated.



Basically a dimly lit and warm place with only a few fans for circulation. I was pleased to see that the dim sums here are traditionally served on pushcarts. However,due to the overwhelming demand, the carts were too bombarded to travel from table to table so we had to approach the carts for our food instead.

To me, dimsum is a form of heartwarming food; one in which you can sense the efforts put into making them. Hence, with my expectations set high, disappointment is most probable. Their dimsums are pretty standard and definitely far from those to-die-for quality but at least some were note-worthy.


Egg Tarts

The one and only to be raved about, this is probably my favourite dish among all. I loved how the soft custard of a heady egg taste matched with the crisp tart shell. Perfect level of butter and sweetness there. yum!



Siew Mai

Substantially filled with firm and not too fatty meat. Being tasty enough, this was quite good as well.



Har Gow

I found absolutely nothing to shout about this- the skin was overthick with a bland, pasty and far from succulent filling.



Spring Rolls

Awfully sogging with oil, but at least the tasty filling saved it.



Char Siew Bao

A mediocre skin dough encased with some petite meat pieces in a flavoursome and wet marinade. Not too bad.



Roasted Meat & Char Siew

Dad specially ordered a small platter for us to share, and all it took was one slice of charsiew for me to conclude how bad it was. It was terribly saltish and tough that i found it really hard to even swallow it. Certainly not worth another try.


Following that, we had a few other dishes which appear more on the average side. I wasn't particularly into the pan-fried carrot cake and the steamed spare ribs as they were not what i really fancied. Mum and grandma also ordered a bowl of century egg congee each, which noticably turned watery after a while.


Pan-fried Carrot Cake


Steamed Spare Ribs


Century Egg Porridge

Being a special occasion, the whole place was packed with people and became really stuffy. A long queue was built up at the cashier counter, imposing another 15 minute wait before we finally settled our bill. The whole meal came out to be less than $50, with most of the items priced at only $2-3 a plate. Seriously worth it for the egg tarts but i just had one last complain- that atrocious $9 plate of meat was the most expensive item!

Nevertheless, this is still a resonable place to have a casual dimsum meal with its considerably cheap prices.