Yummy Dim Sum

Located in Oakland Chinatown on 10th Street between Webster and Harrison. This Dim Sum spot is still affordable. Most types of their dumplings and items are about $1.25 each, or $5 for a box of 4. They accept credit cards but there's a small percentage charge to help cover their fees. I ordered the siu mai (4 steamed pork dumplings), har gow (4 steamed shrimp dumplings), tofu skin rolls (3 rolls filled with water chestnuts, woodear mushrooms and minced pork), and 1 ham sui gok (deep fried mochi dumpling filled with minced meat). Not bad for a quick and fast pickup at the counter. Street parking in this area is challenging since it's Chinatown, but you can be in and out for takeout orders. They do have about 4 tables inside if you wish to dine in.

My favorite place to grab man tao and Malaysian cake. I highly recommend as they are not too sweet and is very reminiscent of your mom making pastries at home. They are super affordable and have tables inside for you to eat your dim sum or baos. I typically grab to go but their spare ribs rice or meat cake rice is also very tasty and something Chinese people love eating. The service is quick and the ladies working are very sweet. Sometimes they get intimidated when you don't speak Cantonese but they have an English translate menu with picture on the side you can also point to.

Good grief, Charlie Brown! My first time visiting in a just about a year, and prices went up again! Same tasty food, albeit a little smaller in size, and way too expensive for takeout dim sum! One order of shrimp dumplings or pork dumplings USED TO cost $3. Last year it went up to $4. Now it's $5! And still hungry after eating too!

Excellent service from all the ladies at this little dim sum shop. The steam buns along with some of the dim sum items (siu mai, beef balls) are delicious!

My favorite item here is their combination steamed bun, aka the dai gai bao (big chicken bun). The dough of their steamed bun is just the right texture. It's not too dry, and it's not too moist. The filling of their bao includes large chunks of chicken, hard boiled egg, Chinese sausage, and black mushroom. The filling is seasoned nicely but I have encountered chicken bone occasionally, so be aware. I think they're a bargain at $3 each! Try them!Cash only. They have pictures you can point to order.

Located in one of the side streets next to the Asian Cultural Center in Oakland Chinatown, Yummy Dim Sum isn't a place that people will regularly wander into on a whim. From the outside, it's actually not terribly easy to tell there's a dim sum place here as it has an unappealing sign, and when you get inside, it's the same as well, but coming to Yummy Dim Sum will be for a very different experience than if you were to go to Peony Seafood Restaurant just a short walk over.What Yummy Dim Sum does offer though, is cheap and affordable dim sum, to-go (no sitting in at the moment).When you first walk in, there's just a couple of large menu boards on the left, and the counter to order is on the right.The staff here is going to be hit or miss, as this was literally the experience of one staff was friendly, the other one didn't really care about anything than getting us out the door. But considering it's a takeout only place, I guess service isn't really much of an expectation to begin with.First, let's talk about the price just to get that out of the way. They are probably the cheapest place that offers dim sum in this area out of all the places. Back in the day, there had been several dim sum places, and you had more options for an actual dim sum restaurant to eat out. Nowadays, there's really just one main dim sum place in this immediate area, and that is Peony. There's a wide variety of other restaurants though that will also offer dim sum, and other takeout only dim sum places too but at a much higher price. Yummy Dim Sum will off you the best bang for your buck if you just want dim sum.Food wise, because of how cheap it is, you get what you pay for. While it's not bad when taking into account how much you're paying, it's certainly not going to blow you away by any means. The portions are small, but not so small that it's no good, but also more like a taste of dim sum, rather than a meal of it. Again, price to portion, it's about what you would expect. Their ha gao is pretty good, their shu mai is not bad and actually has shrimp and not just pork, their shrimp roll is okay, and their pastries were pretty good. The baos here were hit and missing with the chasu bao and the chicken bao, but not too bad. They charge you on the pastries stuff per piece, while most of the other dim sum dishes are done in a tiny batch, like 3 pieces, but if you take into account the per cost, it's the same thing really.All in all, Yummy Dim Sum is a great place for those who are just looking for a cheaper option, eating food that's not bad and in some places pretty good, and want takeout. Naming themselves Yummy Dim Sum was certainly overreaching in the first place, so there was no chance they would meet that standard. However, I would still be comfortable calling them, Yummy Enough Dim Sum, which looking at this case I am all for. Pop on in if you're interested in some takeout dim sum without having to pay much more at almost every other place around in the area, at least nowadays.

The dim sum resembles Yank Sing dim sum and tastes just as good.The chef is from Toi Shan and learned his craft in a nice restaurant there.Now he teaches others how to make his dim sum with the thin skin.We order take out on a regular basis and the chive and shrimpdumplings, ha gow and fried taro root cake are delicious.

We discovered Yummy only recently. In retrospect, this is an unforgivable oversight! We are already regular customers at this point, and we can't imagine not going there every two weeks!

Gotta try their chicken and spareribs over rice plate, cheap and delicious. Place isn't great but food is what I came for. Definitely a stop if craving

Update: Came back for gai baozi (steamed chicken bun). The bun came out warm, and the dough was the right consistency and taste. However, something tasted a bit off with the chicken filling. Possibly, the oil. I also found a small hair inside.Despite everything, the bun was still tasty, warm, and affordable. Hard to beat at this price point.