This vast, bustling dim sum house offers quality as well as variety. It's a blur of constantly moving dim sum carts laden with dumplings, buns, meat, vegetables, offal and sweets. As with all the top dim sum restaurants, the wait on the weekends can be long.

High-end Cantonese dim sum restaurant where you order off a checklist instead of from waitresses pushing carts. Try the sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves, the whole steamed Dungeness crab, the deep fried chicken wings, the Peking duck and the conjees.

The delicious dim sum includes everything you could hope for: har gow, shu mai, steamed fish, stir fried beans, fried chicken, pork chops, chicken feet, char siu bau, beef noodles, lobako (fried turnip cake) and custard tarts.

Considered by some to be one of the better dim sum houses in the San Gabriel Valley, The Kitchen serves the standard assortment of dim sum items -- shu mai, har gow, bao, chicken feet -- as well as a couple of unique offerings like fried green tea dumplings.

In addition to standard dim sum offerings like shu mai and Chinese broccoli, they offer rarer dishes like cubes of pigs’ blood, beef tendon with chili and curried cattle tripe. Dessert options include mango pudding, hot tofu with syrup and other dishes.

A large, formal Chinese restaurant that's packed during peak dim sum hours. The portions are large and the prices are reasonable.

A more upscale take on traditional dim sum. The menu is well translated into English, but it's doubtful you'll find anyone working there who speaks it.

Almost as if to prove how ubiquitous dim sum is in the 626, this dingy shack plunked in the middle of an inauspicious block manages to offer decent quality, basic dim sum -- shu mai, har gow, bao, lobako and more – at rock bottom prices.