"Royal Seafood serves dim sum on carts seven days a week, and it's pretty much packed at all times. (Although skipping work on a weekday and going for a cheeky dim sum brunch will most likely guarantee your spot, so keep this in mind.) The Chinatown spot looks pretty normal-sized from the street, but inside you'll find a palatial, carpeted room where extended families and friends occupy big round tables for hours at a time. It's also a great place to dine solo—we once witnessed someone working their way through a mound of chicken feet and an entire bottle of Hennessy (by themselves) at 9:30am. We respect it. You come to Royal Seafood to pick whatever looks good off carts at a rate that your stomach can barely handle, and we would never get in the way of that. But if you need somewhere to start, keep an eye out for plump har gow, perfect mounds of sticky fried rice, and slippery rice rolls with beef and shrimp. Plus aggressively flaky egg tarts." - Willa Moore
