I first went to Po King a while back when my grandparents introduced it to me. It’s a relatively cheap Chinese restaurant that opened a few months ago and offered dim sum for $2.99 per dish. As such, it’s pretty busy at lunch and it’s best to get there a bit before 12 (at least on week days) if you don’t want to wait for a table. Po King is located along Kingsway about a three minute drive east of Metrotown.
Most dim sum restaurants these days require you to order from a sheet and the dim sum is then brought to your table. Po King kicks it old school by bringing carts of dim sum around. One thing to note though is that the rotation of dim sum can be pretty scant at times so if you see something you want, it’s best to grab it right away.
The bean curd with pork and bamboo shoots was quite tasty. Sometimes, this dish can get a bit oily but Po King’s version was not so. Because there is so much pork packed in the bean curd wraps, it is actually quite filling so it’s best to ask your server to cut them in half.
I am always a fan of these Chinese beef balls, especially when there is an accompanying vinegar dipping sauce.
These bbq pork buns also have a sweet topping which makes for a unique combination of salty and sweet. My aunt first introduced these to me quite a while ago and they always make for a tasty filler dish.
We sure do like our bbq pork buns! We also had the regular version with no sweet coating on top. 
My grandma ordered this dish of steamed eel. There were quite a few bones so it is some work to eat it but also worth it.
I really enjoyed this dish of fried leather jacket fish in Maggi sauce. The bones weren’t too difficult to navigate and the crunchy outside of the fish went very well with the Maggi sauce.
We were still a bit hungry so we also ordered some fried noodles with chicken and veggies. This dish was made fresh so the noodles were nice and crunchy.
One of my favourite dim sum dishes is the shredded chicken with jellyfish “salad”. I would say that there was more jellyfish than chicken and I found it to be a bit watery towards the bottom. It tasted good though and I liked the pickled sweetness of the pickled ginger and turnips.
Po King is a great deal for the type of food you get and the price. I’m really glad that another good dim sum place has opened up near where I work. I’ve already dragged my co-workers here a couple of times since first going there with my grandparents.
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150-5665 Kingsway, Burnaby
Tel: 604-436-2986
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I just came back from this Po King Restaurant. I went there with my girl friend on a saturday around 1pm.
This is the worst of the worst restaurant when it comes to service. I don’t say stuff like this just based on a perceived ‘attitude’. I’ll list what factually happened and u be the judge.
1. We were at the door with another 2 person and we wanted a table for 2 (we were there first).. the receptionist asked me if we wanted to share a table. I said no I don’t. She gave me a disgusted look and shouted at me explaining it’s a big table, there’s no more small tables so I have to wait. My girl friend said she wouldn’t mind, so we went with it. We got there and the table was just big enough for 4.
2. She wrote table number on our dim sum card, and she didn’t put it on our table. She actually SLAPPED it onto our table right in front of my face.
3. Another server came along to setup the utensils. He didn’t put things down on the table, he THREW them onto the table. When he was done, nothing was actually setup. All the cups bowls and chopsticks was all over the place.
4. They have no steamed prawn dumplings. The entire time I was there, not 1 single cart pushed around had steamed prawn dumplings. The other foods isn’t any good either.
5. When my girl friend and I have had enough of this BS, we decided to get the bill. They refused to bring us the bill and told us to pay up front. Not everyone had to do this tho. The slightly bigger tables had their bills brought to them.
6. While we were at the cashier counter, the cashier was chatting on the phone the entire time. She was also slapping everything around and even slapped our change onto the counter.
I was thoroughly pissed off with that restaurant. I pried every note, every coin, every penny off of the tray so as not to leave them a single bit of tips.
I hope this restaurant stays open forever. So that these appalling servers and waitresses won’t have to go and work somewhere else and bring down the service quality all over the place and I’d know which place to avoid.
I’m sorry to hear you had such a horrible time there! I’m the first to agree that the service at Po King is not the greatest but it was somewhat offset by the food, price, and location. I did give the service only 2 stars after all. :p
Hi Gigi,
If you check out my post on this place, I concur with “Pissed off customer”. This place is the black hole of poor service. Food is not bad, but honestly, it’s probably the worst service you’ll get from a restaurant of this size. The owner/manager used to run Big Lai Palace. Same problems there before they shut down under suspicious circumstances. It’s really too bad, I used to like going there. But I couldn’t take the abuse anymore.
Hi Sherman – I haven’t been to Po King in quite a while so I guess either (a) service has gotten quite a bit worse than my last visit, (b) I was “lucky” and service was tolerable, or (c) I had such low expectations for service that it honestly did not bother me.
I had no idea it was owned by the same ppl as Big Lai though…I’d never been there but heard some pretty shoddy reviews from people who had.
Hi Gigi,
You are probably right that it got worse because when I first starting going there, the rude owner was actually trying hard to be nice. However, as we began having problems after 10+ visits, she was becoming more rude. I think the true colours of the owner and staff cannot be suppressed forever. Too bad, I really didn’t mind the food.
Hi Sherman – that’s really is too bad…let’s hope that some other dim sum establishment pops up in the area with some better service so we can go there instead :p