Sun Sui Wah Seafood Restaurant
Seafood restaurant · Bellevue ·
Classy Chinese dining room with dim sum, squab, and crab
Classy Chinese dining room with dim sum, squab, and crab
"A famed dim sum establishment with two locations in British Columbia opened a Bellevue outpost last year to a lot of hype and as one of several hot new dim sum openings in 2024, but a recent review in The Seattle Times found it lacking. “From the beginning, the word from dim sum aficionados was that the quality and execution was inconsistent,” the Times wrote, adding that the struggles may stem from a lack of skilled dim sum kitchen workers in the local labor pool. Restaurant management apparently agrees — owner Ken Tan told the Times he’s bought out his Canadian partners and plans to “rework and rename the restaurant this fall.”" - Harry Cheadle
"This popular Vancouver-based spot has a Bellevue location where people often line up well before opening, even on weekdays. It’s not all hype—Sun Sui Wah serves some great dim sum dishes with flair. Inside the grand chandelier-filled dining room with a live fish tank, big groups gather around lazy susan-topped tables and ponder a picture menu that’s about the length of a car parts catalog. While the famed har gow is a bit of a letdown, you’re in good hands with dishes like the shatteringly crispy shrimp-stuffed egg roll, meaty shui mai, and the deep-fried taro dumpling with a rich ground pork center that's like breaking open a Lindor truffle." - kayla sager riley, carlo mantuano, aimee rizzo
"A popular Cantonese food destination with roots in Hong Kong that opened in Vancouver in 1988 (and later in Richmond), Sun Sui Wah recently brought its mark of excellence to Bellevue. Typical of dim sum restaurants, diners can order baskets of buns and other dim sum items until 2:30 p.m., at which time the kitchen starts to turn its focus to the dinner menu, which includes Sun Sui Wah’s upscale squab, duck, and abalone platters. Families with children like to finish their dim sum dining with pig-shaped mango pudding." - Jay Friedman
"Bringing a mark of Cantonese excellence from Hong Kong and Vancouver, the Bellevue outpost of Sun Sui Wah serves dim sum until 2:30 p.m., after which the kitchen shifts to an upscale dinner menu featuring squab, duck, and abalone platters. I learned the restaurant chose the Seattle area because of its proximity to their successful Vancouver market and a strong local Chinese community, and there were three-hour waits when it opened—clear evidence they were on to something." - Jay Friedman
"This popular Vancouver-based dim sum restaurant has a Bellevue location where people are lining up well before opening, even on weekdays. It’s not all hype—Sun Sui Wah serves some great dim sum dishes with flair. Inside the grand chandelier-filled dining room with a live fish tank, big groups gather around lazy susan-topped tables and ponder a picture menu that’s about the length of a car parts catalog. It’s easy to be overwhelmed, but you’re in good hands with dishes like the shatteringly crispy shrimp-stuffed egg roll, meaty shui mai, and the deep-fried taro dumpling with a rich ground pork center that's like breaking open a Lindor truffle (you can avoid the bland har gow). While Seattleites have a couple of superior dim sum options in Harbor City and Jade Garden, Sun Sui Wah fills a void on the Eastside admirably. Plus, after 5pm they have a dinner service that involves squab—which we look forward to checking out." - Kayla Sager-Riley
