Hei La Moon
Chinese restaurant · Downtown
83 Essex St, Boston, MA 02111
Highlights
Traditional dim sum with carts, plus banquet-style dining.
Traditional dim sum with carts, plus banquet-style dining.
"Grab a seat in Hei La Moon’s light-filled, bi-level space and tuck into bountiful spreads of seafood, dumplings, and sizzling plates of beef and chicken. Dim sum cart service is available on the weekends." - Valerie Li Stack
"This gilded dim sum destination relocated to a smaller space in 2022 and changed its name to Food Opera, but the food and the experience remain top-notch. The menu is full of good bets here, including the taro dumplings, bok choy drizzled in oyster sauce, and steamed roast pork buns. (Looking for more dim sum? Empire Garden Restaurant and Winsor Dim Sum Cafe are two other go-tos in the neighborhood.)" - Nathan Tavares
"Hei La Moon offers classic dim sum, perfect for a brunch crowd." - Adam H. Callaghan
"Dim sum at Hei La Moon is an exercise in restraint, because every single menu item looks delicious. But this is our gameplan when we’re here: aim for as much texture variance as possible. That means ordering dumplings (shrimp hargow, chive dumplings, and pork shiu mai), rice stick noodles with roast pork, sesame balls for the crunchy, sesame-coated exterior, and the durian crisp and baked egg custard for dessert. Add on a pot of tea for $1 and it’s hard to find a better weekday, sit-down breakfast than what you get here in this butter-yellow, sun-soaked dining room. Just know you’ll only see carts on Saturdays and Sundays." - lala thaddeus
"Dim sum at Hei La Moon is an exercise in restraint, because every single menu item looks delicious. But this is our gameplan when we’re here: aim for as much texture variance as possible. That means ordering dumplings (shrimp hargow, chive dumplings, and pork shiu mai), rice stick noodles with roast pork, sesame balls for the crunchy, sesame-coated exterior, and the durian crisp and baked egg custard for dessert. Add on a pot of tea for $1 and it’s hard to find a better weekday, sit-down breakfast than what you get here in this butter-yellow, sun-soaked dining room. Just know you’ll only see carts on Saturdays and Sundays." - Lala Thaddeus
