Cheung Hing Seafood & Dimsum (Formerly China Village), Belmont

Reviewer: Foodnut.com Cheung Hing 600 Ralston Ave Belmont, CA 94002 650-593-1831 Cheung Hing Website

Cheung Hing replaces China Village Seafood Restaurant in Belmont, California located just off the Highway 101’s Ralston Exit. The former had been around since 1996, serving dim sum during both lunch and dinner, as well as standard Cantonese Chinese cuisine, but changed hands in 2022. It appears that they may have a similar menu and chef from before. The interior and exterior are still the same too, so is the phone number.

Cheung Hing has several locations in San Mateo, Millbrae, and San Francisco. Those concentrate on Chinese barbecue dishes and don’t serve dim sum.

Dim sum costs more at dinner, presumably because it is freshly warmed up. We visited for a dim sum lunch. They use carts and servers to dish out their dim sum on weekends. Some stuff (hardcore Chinese dishes) keeps going round and round. They had 59 types of dim sum on their menu. Our last visit was in fall 2023.

Be sure to read:

• Beginner’s Introduction to Chinese Dim Sum Lunch
• Top Dim Sum in San Francisco

Decor, Vibe – Cheung Hing is a small step up from typical Chinese restaurant decor. Lots of families and couples of all ages were dining. A nice mix of folks.

Cheung Hing Menu

The menu is pretty extensive for such a small restaurant. Lots of pictures, so DIM sum newbies should not be scared. The servers all speak English, so no worries for those that do not speak Chinese.

Conclusion – This restaurant hasn’t changed that much since the ownership flip. They serve solid, classic dishes, not modern imaginative ones like top spot HL Peninsula. Prices have gone straight up unfortunately. There aren’t that many dim sum options in this mid Peninsula area located from San Mateo through Palo Alto, making the spot fairly busy even mid week for lunch and a good bet.

Cheung Hing Lunch Picks:

$1.50/person tea charge.

Deep fried meat dumpling ($5.98) was pretty good. Large, Crispy and flavorful filling. 8/10

Steamed prawn dumpling or har gow ($7.88) had 4 medium dumplings filled with well flavored but chopped up shrimp. 8.5/10

Shrimp rice noodle roll ($7.88) is the classic version.  Solid, nothing super. 7.5/10

Cilantro rice noodle roll ($7.88) it’s perfect for vegetarian, resemble portion size and quality. 8/10.

Pan fried pork buns ($6.98) do not look like the picture on the menu and in Chinese are a different type of dumpling. 6/10

Deep fried sesame balls ($5.98) were small, warm, fresh, and filled with dark sweet paste. Decent. 8/10

Honey walnut shrimp ($11.98) it’s a small dish that is popular at banquets and for dinner. Average quality. 7.5/10

Steamed BBQ Buns ($6.98 for 3) are better than average versions. 8/10

Scallop & Chives Dumpling ($7.88) are more interesting than the usual har gow shrimp dumpling.  Fish egg top. 8/10

Steamed Chao Zhou Dumplings ($6.98) had 3 large sticky dumplings with peanut, pork, cilantro and a slight pepper kick. Fair. 7/10

Budda delight dumplings ($6.98) are for vegetarians.  Lots of chopped mushrooms. 7/10

Sticky rice in lotus leaf ($7.88) was below average.  Not steamed long enough. 6/10

Green tea mochi ($6.98) was fried and too sweet. Order the Black sesame one. 7/10

Black Sesame mochi ($6.98) was done well. Nice chewy and not too sweet. 8.5/10

Boiled chinese broccoli with oyster sauce ($9.88) was cooked just right. Nice healthy ballast for our gluttony. 8/10

Boiled okra ($9.88) was pristine and cooked fine. 8/10

Banquet Dinner 2023

At the end of 2023, we had Cheung Hing’s $428 10 course dinner menu.

• BBQ Combo Plate
• Crab Meat with Fish Maw Soup – eggdrop
• Honey Walnut Prawns
• Peking Duck
• Sauteed lobster
• Braised mushrooms and snow peas
• Beef cubes w/ teriyaki sauce
• Steamed live fish
• Dry Scallops with egg white fried rice
• Dessert

It was enough food for 12 people.  Quality was solid, but not top notch. Service was scattered because the place was so busy.

 

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