Lunasia Dim Sum House, Pasadena CA

As a Cantonese, I the highest rating I can give a 2 star to this specific Lunasia Dim Sum House. The environment is OK, but it is more like a Hong Kong style cafe than a dim sum house. Service is also fine. The BIGGEST PROBLEM is the food. The flavor is way toooooooo strong. Either too sweet or too salty. 蛋挞 (Egg Custard Tart) is the worst. The egg is over steamed and the coat of it is way too thick. The finish of the dim sum is bad. Look at the scallop dumplings (墨汁皮带子虾饺) I showed, everything is scattered around. TBH, I’ve never seen such dumplings before. BTW, I went to the Lunasia in Alhambra quite often. The dim sum there is much much better than here. If you want to spend a nice morning with fined dim sum, go to the Lunasia in Alhambra, don’t bother this location.

Excellent food. Otherworldly dim sum. Only item I would not order would be the so called sauteed pea pods greens. It is actually just sauteed spinach. Perhaps this is an Americanization of a much beloved dish I miss.

The reason I live to eat! Not eat to live. Alhambra’s Lunasia is just as good if not better. (But often has longer waits)
Modern Dim sum with authentic flavors. Don’t miss this fantastic establishment.

The wait can be pretty long, and we found out you can get in line ahead of time through Yelp.

There’s a parking lot (paid, but there was no attendant when we went) behind the restaurant, and you can enter from there as well.

When you’re seated, they give you QR codes to scan to look at the menu and order. Everyone can order from their own phone, and it will be charged to the table. The food was good, but I think it was way overpriced.

Waiting time is pretty long, both before and after being tabled. The dishes are bad and don't worth waiting. The almond milk shown in the photo is over sweet. It's nothing but almond milk plus plenty of sugar and a square bread placed on top. We wait about 15min for this simple but crazy dish. The other dim sum dishes taste bad as well. I would never come back again.

A solid 4 stars. Very tasty dim sum and the portions are huge! Slick ordering right on your phone and the food came out fast. Service was timely and the wait wasn't too bad on a Saturday afternoon. I'd come back again.

Tasty dim sum and the portions are huge! Also I loved their fried rice.but stir fried string bean was not seasoned well.
Service was so so.a girl rushed us to order tea! Overall, I'd recommend this place.the place is clean and calm. I'll come back again.

They provided a QR code you need to scan in order to view the menu on your phone. Food comes after you place orders on your phone.

Here goes. For starters, my wife and I were asked to show our vaccination cards at the entrance - an unpleasant surprise. Not a hint of this on the website, not a sign on the door. We had the cards with us by sheer coincidence. Not good.
The food was underwhelming. The wonton soup was fine, but the eggplant was unpalatably sweet. Soup dumplings, which we normally love, arrived in individual tinfoil cases, like little muffins, and turned out to be dry, chewy and tasteless. I suspect they were defrosted out of a pack.
The service also was sub-par: the waiter would place our food on the corner of the table closest to the passage and leave. So each time we had to reach across from where we sat and set it ourselves. The soup came with the spoons fully submerged inside the bowls. We literally had to fish them out and wipe them down with napkins. A Japanese couple next to us were also struggling and ended up packing their food away and leaving.
So yeah, one star and no repeat visits.

I would definitely recommend to people I know.
Dim Sum is good and the noodles they call -cause looks different with the noodles I knew- are vwry good too

Food was tasty, but apparently my 28% tip wasn't enough for them so they decided to increase it. Noticed the increase on my CC statement. Thieves! Server: Dylan.

It was ok - their dimsums (the shrimp shumai, pork soup dumplings) were slightly cold.but tasted ok. It was an ok dimsum place for pasadena but not the better one objectively.

We came in after lunch rush. The wait time was about 5 minutes. Each table is separated with two big plexiglass wall dividers. You ordered the food with the QR code. We had a variety of dim sums. They came very fast. The food was tasty.

We really enjoyed the food here. Our only quibble was how one of our dishes came so late, we'd managed to finish eating everything else, and we didn't really leave room for it.

Great experience. Fast service, incredible food. Ordered from their website (they give you a QR code when you sit down) and food arrived seamlessly and wordlessly. Nothing was missed, everything was fast and good.

It's too expensive on doordash. They priced it too high. Expect to pay 35% more if you're buying online on top of the delivery fee and tip. If you normally pay 6$ for a dish in person, you pay 9$ for the same thing online even if you're picking it up. That's ridiculous. Just go in person or get it from somewhere else.

Overprice! No parking … $5 to park to eat …. $7.00 for 4 pierces of shrimp hagow! Will never come back … and will never frequent their other locations cuz I’m sure it’s a rip off there too! Service was below average, when I asked a question the responses were unprofessional … and acted as if I was bothering them …