Fan's Restaurant

Dim Sum: Not as good as it should be. Most of dim sum has less stuffing (we had a lot of dishes but forgot to take a photo). Entree Dish; Relatively good and tasty. We loved Stir fry fish with XO sauce and braised beef brisket. Service hours; Unexpected close without online announcement. Wasting my time to drive to Dartmouth.

We're from BC and came here for lunch because we want to try the Chinese style lobster. They have a lunch special menu. The food portion is quite big, we had a lot of left overs. The service speed is kinda slow, but it's understandable since we ordered a lobster. It's nice that they have the lobster readily available on the menu, as many Chinese restaurant ask you to either reserve a lobster beforehand or bring your own. Food flavour is decent, a bit on the salty side. I'd recommend coming here if you want to try Chinese style lobster, price is very reasonable.

We ordered couple dishes, most of them were fine except the "Palace style shrimp" (in Chinese 花雕明蝦). I was expecting the shrimps to be cooked in chinese cooking wine, but they gave us sweet and sour deep fried shrimp which was disgusting. We didn't touch the dish after the first try. If you're from Vancouver/Toronto and craving for real chinese food, you will find this place disappointing. :(

Come for Fan’s authentic Cantonese dim sum on Saturday and Sundays. The place was busy when we went on Saturday at 1 pm. We ordered off a sheet of paper that didn’t have price but had the sizes of the dishes which probably corresponded to a price somewhere if you asked. We got our food pretty quickly and I must say, even though the portions looked small, they were very filling. We ordered 8 dishes and had to grab 2 take out boxes for what we couldn’t finish. We enjoyed the cilantro and shrimp dumplings and the custard bun the most. All in all, we paid around $50+ for everything and it was worth it as Fan’s is the best dim sum place that we’ve tried in the HRM.

Though I really love the food at Fan’s our first delivery experience was horrible. An hour after we’d ordered, I called because our food wasn’t here. We were told that the food had left and should be here soon. Twenty minutes later and still no food so I called back. They called the driver and told me 10 more minutes. Almost 15 minutes passed and the driver showed up as I was calling to cancel the order because our food had been in the car at least 45 minutes. We sent the food back and called the restaurant to let them know we had sent the food back with the driver. It’s now 8:15 pm, almost 2 hours after I ordered dinner & now we need to figure out something else. The restaurant was very apologetic but didn’t do anything else. No replacement food, no discount on a future order, not even a couple of free spring rolls for our next order. I’m very disappointed and very hungry