Best dim sum in Vancouver

The Taiwanese dumpling house's Alberni Street branch, for xiao long bao and dan dan noodles.

• Elite 30 #18Source ↗

  A menu built around the brand's best-known dishes and its handmade-dumpling heritage from 1972 Taipei, in a bright minimalist room with attentive service. A cocktail and zero-proof drink program extends the meal.

  Standout dishes: crab and kurobuta pork xiao long bao, shrimp and kurobuta pork spicy wontons, braised beef noodle soup, hot and sour soup

Dim sum and seafood under chandeliers since 2009.

• Elite 30 #3Source ↗

  Accomplished Cantonese cooking with seafood as a strength, and wok skill that gives clear flavours and wok hei. The owner's attention to ingredients and service, and a busy room that suits family dim sum and celebrations, add to the appeal.

  Standout dishes: lemon BBQ pork pastry, purple yam custard ball

Cantonese and Shunde dining room in Richmond, for dim sum and duck stuffed with glutinous rice.

• Elite 30 #16Source ↗

  Known for authentic Shunde cooking and a concise menu that favours simplicity and technique. The reviewer credits consistent quality under chef May Chau over two decades, and a judging chair named its dim sum his favourite.

  Standout dishes: chef's special stuffed duck, steamed dumplings with crab meat and pork, sweet and sour pork with fresh fruit, braised duck with plums and taro root cakes

Richmond Cantonese room for dim sum such as crispy-topped barbecue pork buns and abalone pork dumplings.

• Elite 30 #22Source ↗

  Refined Cantonese cooking alongside a selection of Sichuan dishes, with polished dinner service led by master chef Peter Kum. The reviewer valued the skill with live seafood and the playful, finessed dim sum from veteran chef Lai Wei.

  Standout dishes: stir-fried egg white with Nova Scotia lobster, Sichuan peppercorn fried squab, spicy beef rice rolls, steamed sergestid shrimp dumplings

Cantonese seafood and dim sum on River Road, from winter melon soup to salted egg yolk crab.

• Elite 30 #9Source ↗

  A kitchen grounded in Cantonese tradition yet willing to explore new ideas, with classic dim sum, dried seafood specialities and local seafood. The spacious dining room suits a relaxed dim sum lunch or a seafood dinner.

  Standout dishes: wasabi mayo steamed king crab, Dungeness crab and Manila clam claypot