Decided to check out a very fancy-looking restaurant (apparently it's inspired by secret agents like James Bond) called Voynich for dim sum lunch. We decided on their "Kwai" set lunch which is $218 HKD (about $38 CAD) per person, and thought it seemed somewhat reasonable considering the variety of dim sum included:
"Kwai" set lunch
Steamed shrimp dumpling with black truffle sauce
Steamed pork dumpling with crab meat and black caviar
Steamed mixed mushroom dumpling
Stir-fried rice noodles with shrimp and scrambled egg
Fried rice with seafood and dried scallop
Xiao long bao
Creamy chicken filo pastry puffs
Except what we were not prepared for was the portion size. The menu actually states every dim sum item in PLURAL FORM, but in execution, you get ONE PIECE of each dim sum. $218 HKD all of a sudden seemed like a complete and total rip-off. I get that the presentation is nice and there's some gold flecks in the har gow and the smallest dollop of caviar on the siu mai, but sorry, even with the quality of ingredients, this amount of food absolutely did not merit such a price point. (This doesn't include the tea fee, either, mind you.) The dim sim here doesn't taste any better than any other plebe dim sum I've had, either. The set meal also included your choice of rice or noodle dish, but again, in the smallest portion you can imagine. (To put in perspective, an order of fried rice or fried noodles at a regular Cantonese restaurant is around $15-20 CAD, but the portion is about five times bigger than what we got here.)
We were not nearly full enough from this rip-off of a lunch set, so we ended up ordering xiao long bao and the creamy chicken filo pastry puffs on top of it. And that's when we learned that we should have just ordered à la carte from their regular dim sum menu, where both the prices and the portions are much more reasonable. A ROOKIE MISTAKE.
But, hey, at least the interior design is top-notch.
Voynich
Harbour City, 4/F, Unit 401
Canton Rd.
Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
(852) 2688-2408
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