Dim Sum and Noodles Reviews

This is a no frills, ten table restaurant located at Rodin Place, a small mall behind the Rodin Museum along Benjamin Franklin parkway. We ate here after a visit to the Barnes Foundation and before going to the Rodin. We had the lunch special dim sum sampler, which featured three pan fried and six steamed items as well as a small fruit dessert. All of the items were delicious and fresh. There was a perfect amount for lunch--you aren't going to go hungry but you aren't going to be stuffed. This particular item is only available on Saturdays and Sundays, so unless you want to order nine individual dim sum plates and pay three times the price you can't do better for variety or price. The service here was also perfect--the server was very friendly and explained everything that we were going to get and even what sauces to use with each and the items came at just the right intervals--so nothing got cold. Would come back in a heartbeat--if I were in the area.

We arrived following a visit to the Barnes Foundation, which is around the corner and ordered a dim sum sampler, eggplant and garlic hotpot and chicken with string beans. The first two were excellent and the third very good. The dim sum was the first we found in the East that matched what we had had years ago in the Bay Area. In addition we were given hot towels at the beginning and end of the meals.

An unassuming exterior with excellent food and service inside. This is my local go to Chinese restaurant when I don't visit Chinatown. I recommend the jalapeno ricce bowl or the Seafood Ramen Noodle.

Expecting basic Chinese, we were very pleased by the quality of our meal. We even risked ordering a Thai vegetable and tofu curry, not something I'd typically do in a Chinese restaurant. The bamboo shoots seemed like they DIDN'T come out of a can, hallelujah, and the curry (in coconut milk, of course) tasted like some we'd eaten in Thailand. Our other dish was a very different Dan Dan noodles we'd had elsewhere, with lots of hot pepper and hints of sesame, peanut, and cilantro. .

Amazing food and fantastic service. The noodle dishes were about the best I’ve ever had. The fried shrimp wantons contained whole shrimp. I wish I lived closer so I could try the entire menu!

My idea of dim sum has the actual carts going around. I know a lot of places have the items on a menu, but to me that is not really worthy of having Dim Sum in your restaurant name. The waitress apologized for how the pictures of the food at the entrance did not really match what you get. For example, the sticky rice picture showed 3 small leaves of rice and the actual order gives you one medium sized one. Attention to these details (and the pictures were there a long time because they were faded) makes a place better in my opinion. If the server says "I know, but..." to every customer, why not just change the thing?

This is original Dim Sum with many different varieties of dishes. Go for the fresh Vegetables and dumplings. Eat as much as you can.

Meal was awesome, affordable, great service, location is central easy to find, waiter was great and very nice. I would recommend to all!

We stopped here just after visiting the Barnes Foundation, which is around the corner. The dim sum sampler was a good as what we had been used to many years ago in the Bay Area. We also had an excellent eggplant hotpot and a good chicken and green beans dish. We will plan to come here again when we next visit the Barnes or visit the Rodin Museum.

After visiting The Barnes, my fav museum in Philly, my hb &I I needed an energy fixer in order to make it up the hill to The Philadelphia... so, we checked out never failing Yelp's reviews for Chinese food....and, am proud to say to you, my fellow Yelpers, you aced this new establishment and I am in total agreement with four & five star reviews! I used to live many years in the heart of San Francisco & very seldom do we ever run into a Chinese eatery that brings that exceptionally great place to mind. But, as my hb & I were sipping the hot & sour soup we looked into each other's eyes and said in unison, "San Francisco!" The fried dumplings and so generous eggplant plate were equally on spot, yes! Excellent service including steaming hot towels to wash hands was appreciated as was an entire wall with mural of various scenes of early Chinese eatery with servers, cooks in kitchen that was so interesting & well executed I could not take my eyes of it as I was eating! Do not hesitate to go especially if you are at the Barnes as this fairly new & hidden jewel is just around the block from the back parking lot....2 blocks away!!

I had 3 dim sum, pretty pedestrian. Dan Dan noodles bland, little substance. Service fine, clean, but unexceptional.

Visited with my daughter, enjoyed the great food but most of all the attentive service. They went out of their way to not be in your face but at the same time make sure you enjoyed your meal. The food was very affordable and of high quality. Will be stopping back soon.

Skip Dim Sum Garden. Come here! Amazing dim sum, pad thai, hot pot, and so much more. Immaculately clean, excellent service (Mei), great food! Highly recommend.

This place took me by surprise. Even though it isn't part of the main Chinatown, it was as authentic and tasty as I would hope it to be. The chow fun was so good. We also had various Dim Sums, which were 10/10. Our waitress was very down to Earth and was very socialable. The food, prices, service, and location make this a must next time that I visit the city.

At last a Dim Sum restaurant that reminds me of the ones I frequented in San Francisco years ago. We stopped off following a visit to the Barnes Foundation around the corner and had a Dim Sum sampler, an eggplant and garlic hotpot and a chicken with string bean dish. The first two were excellent and the third very good. The service included hand towels before and after the meal and a complimentary scallion pancake. We'll plan to return the next time we visit Philadelphia.

Stopped in since we were nearby at the Franklin Institute and we were not disappointed! Shanghai ribs, house special pan fried noodles, meat dumplings and fries shrimp wontons were all excellent! Then a funky cut up orange was served with the bill. We will definitely come back the next time we are in the area.

We were looking for a good Asian restaurant near the Rodin Museum, and googlemaps showed this one just a 3-minute walk away. It's a hole in the wall, but what a great find! We had seafood soup for two, dan dan noodles, shrimp dumplings, and veggie dumplings. I didn't think much of the dan dan, but everything else was top notch.

4 of us had weekend lunch ,shared 2 large soups with delicious shrimp wontons and an order of steamed pork buns made to order. On weekdays there are many dim sum lunch specials. Restaurant has a nice mural,good service, and within walking distance of the Barnes Art Museum parking lot.

Behind an unassuming exterior on an unassuming street we found this little gem. We skipped the “traditional” Chinese dishes and went straight for the Dim Sum. It was as good as the best we’ve gotten in NY’s Chinatown. And the San Dan Noodles in Spicy Chili Peanut Sauce was like heavenly fragrant hot sauce. Will be thinking about that dish for a while to come!

I visited the Philadelphia Art Museum with family and wanted a lunch place our of the museum. We found Dim Sum and Noodles. Fabulous! It's located in raised strip mall near the Barnes. We ordered a mix of dim sum and rice dishes. All were excellent and well presented. Service was excellent and very "authentic" down to the hot towels in wrappers at the end of the meal. It has no pretense of being "gourmet" but I give Dim Sum and Noodles five stars for being true to its DNA and serving great dim sum in a clean, authentic environment.

I really liked this place. The restaurant looked clean, and smell so good that's why I choose Dim Dum and Noodles. Their recommendation was better than my choice! I ordered shirimp dumpling and pan fried pork dumpling. The one with the shirimp was so good, the other one was good too. You should try shirimp dumpling!

We had an enjoyable lunch of dumplings, scallion pancakes and green beans. Place is smaller than I expected, but we didn't have to wait for a table. I would recommend.

We had a great lunch at Dim Sum & Noodles. Excellent dim sum and everything was delicious. The shrimp dumplings and pork dumplings were yummy. The sticky rice was awesome! There was nothing we ordered that we did not like. Can’t wait to go back!

We ordered takeout for a babysitting gig closeby. Was ready quickly but seemed to contain perfectly edible but likely pre-cooked chicken and bolgogi beef and rice combo looked pretty pathetic. Everything was edible but quality not commensurate with pricing. High premium for proximity to many millenials. Better choices available in nearby Chinatown. We'll learn from our experience.

This restaurant has exactly the appeal of a Chinese restaurant in a sttion mall in a large city. But who wild have thought the food could be so bad do close to Chinatown? I ordered the sesame chicken and mushroom soup. It seemed promising that I could choose the type of noodles I wanted. That was the last promising moment. The soup was served so hot it seemed like the water was boiling seconds before. I say water rather than broth since it had no flavor, so the noodles had no flavor. 10 minutes after serving, it was still steaming. There was ample flavorless chicken in the soup and mushrooms that might have been good if the hadn't bee too hot to eat. When the sever came by with the perfunctory check to see how it was, either she didn't hear my reply of "terrible" or she didn't care.