Tho Yuen 桃園茶樓

Cantonese restaurant · George Town

Tho Yuen 桃園茶樓

Cantonese restaurant · George Town

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92 Campbell Street Georgetown, 10100 Penang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

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Since 1935, Tho Yuen serves up classic Cantonese dim sum and hearty noodles in a lively Georgetown teahouse that buzzes with local patrons from dawn.  

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92 Campbell Street Georgetown, 10100 Penang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Get directions

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92 Campbell Street Georgetown, 10100 Penang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Get directions

+60 4 261 4672
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"The history of this teahouse spans eight decades but the décor and the tableware haven’t changed much – it’s always reassuring to see the tea set with the image of a rooster. Cantonese dim sum are made the traditional way every morning at 3:30 am and tend to run out quickly. Come early and enjoy the bite-size morsels with Pu’er tea. If dim sum is sold out, go for fried noodles, bee hoon or the fish balls, which are also delicious." - Michelin Inspector

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"Tho Yuen gets a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand for its Cantonese cuisine. Standing firm for eight decades, this teahouse still makes their dim sum the traditional way – every morning at 3:30am. Apart from dim sum, fried noodles, bee hoon and fish balls are also good to try." - MICHELIN Guide Asia

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Low Lee Ling

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Came here for the special Hong Tho noodle. Taste is good. The crab meat fried rice is awesome. Crab meat is fresh and the fried rice has "wok hei". Price may be higher but quality of food makes the visit worth. Need to come early if you want to taste their dim sum. Overall, it's Great experience and will surely visit again

Victor Khoo

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It has been a few years since I went back to Tho Yuen. A local traditional Chinese restaurant serving dim sum (morning), noodles and dumplings that has been around for decades popular with many locals and families, including my grandparents from my mother’s side. In keeping with time, the restaurant has been freshened up but still has its old charm and look, with some improvements. It’s now air conditioned and it looks nice and clean. The food is still the same. Consistently good and taste the same as how I remembered each time I ate there. The price is very reasonable. There is no service charge and no. SST. All in for what we had came to RM$62. Sar hor fun (dry version), crispy noodle (medium), dumplings and fish balls, choy sum (medium), and pu-erh tea. I probably ordered too much for 2 of us 🤣😋.

Yong Chieh Gooi

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Decided to try this place out one of the weekends and arrived after the dim sum was sold out. Hence we only had the noodles option which was in our option decent but not exciting, lacking that special flavour that brings out the wow. Still a nice place to try out, and will update my comments once I have tried out the dim sum offerings.

Sriranjan Chaudhuri

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Old place which is famous for dim sum and Cantonese cuisine. Has been able to maintain a bit of its old world charm despite some upgrades. Went with a local friend who loves the place. We liked most of the food. Some of the dim sum was outstanding, others not so much. Service was sketchy and the whole place had the ambience of a busy market. Some of it caused by really loud groups that frequent the place. This old institution has received the Michelin Bib Gourmand mention and some of the dishes showed us why. For my wife and me it was good, not great.... the lack of consistency can be a bummer.

Layar Jaring

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If you want to try their dim sum you need to come much much earlier, probably before 9am since they open at 6am. I came at 1pm and there's not a morsel of dim sum left. Haha. If you have choice, try to order from a local waitress. We ordered from a non local waitress and she couldn't fully understand us and got our orders wrong. I asked for crab fried rice but she didn't understand me. Pointed at the menu and gave me their standard fried rice. It's delicious, don't get me wrong, just that it wasn't what I wanted to order, which was a bummer. However that doesn't detract from the fact that this was an incredible fried rice. Oily, yet not swimming in it. Rice wasn't clumped. Individual rice pieces well coated with flavour and oil. I am sure it would've been better if it was the crab version which I wanted. The prawn crispy noodle and the stir fried noodle vermicelli both came piping hot. With different base taste which was good to have as you can order both without worrying that they taste the same. The fact that they come with fresh ingredients was a happy bonus. Sadly I found the fish (grouper) tough. The ginger and green onion gave the dish a refreshing taste. If only the meat was less tough, it would've been perfect. In general I enjoyed the meal especially in a nostalgic environment that you don't find much anymore. Just a few blips that need ironing out.

Deanna Lee

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I came here for dim sum with high expectations, given their Michelin standard, but was quite disappointed. Maybe they're good for their regular stir-fry dishes. I tried the ee fu mee, which tasted good, but the portions were small and lacked ingredients ie "liau". For the Dim sum, I tried the siew mai, pork ribs, and prawn beancurd rolls, which tasted above average, but the size was small too for the price. The egg tarts and egg cakes were below average. The service was slow on a busy Sunday, and I sat near the entrance. Since it's dim sum served in a push cart style starting from the back to the front, by the time the cart reached the front, most of the items were gone and not replenished. This occurred for each cycle of all the carts, even when I reminded the server to offer me some of the dishes that were gone. But since the food was mediocre, small in portion, and big in price tag, I didn't bother getting more anyway. I won't return, as there are many other better, friendlier, and more value-for-money options elsewhere.

Hammerhead

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This is one of few Michelin awarded restaurant that well deserved due to their consistency and their ability to maintain high quality of their food even though regularly flooded with huge crowd. They have all the right ingredient for their fried food, ie, fried rice, char hor fun and etc, the color, the taste, the wok hey, you name it they have it correctly done by their master chef.

droneon hu

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The duck egg tart had a strong duck egg flavor. The fried noodles were very fragrant, but they got a bit salty toward the end — perfect to balance out with some chrysanthemum tea.