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Yank Sing

  • Address: 49 Stevenson St., Financial District, San Francisco, CA, 94105 | Map It
  • Phone: 415/541-4949
Write a review | Avg. member rating: 4.0/5

Fodor's Review:

This is the granddaddy of the city's dim sum teahouses. It opened in a plain-Jane storefront in Chinatown in 1959 but left its Cantonese neighbors behind for the high-rises of downtown by the 1970s. This brightly decorated location on quiet Stevenson Street (there's also a big, brassy branch in the Rincon Center) serves some of San Francisco's best dim sum to office workers—bosses and clerks alike—on weekdays and to big, boisterous families on weekends. The kitchen cooks up some 100 varieties of dim sum on a rotating basis, offering 60 different types daily. These include both the classic (steamed pork buns, shrimp dumplings, egg custard tartlets) and the creative (scallion-skewered prawns tied with bacon, lobster and tobiko roe dumplings, basil seafood dumplings). A take-out counter makes a meal on the run a satisfying and penny-wise compromise when office duties won't wait.

  • Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V
  • Closed: No dinner
  • Other location: 1 Rincon Center, 101 Spear St., Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, 415/957-9300

Member Reviews and Ratings

Reviewed by Lexma90 from Denver on 11/25/09
We go to Yank Sing every time we visit San Francisco. It provides good-quality dim sum, a variety of dim sum that's good enough for us - while we eat dim sum several times a year, we're no experts - in a clean, pleasant restaurant. If you time it right, there's little or no wait for a table. It's always a fun experience, and our kids enjoy it too.

Member Rating: 4.0
Ratings details: Food: 4.0 Atmosphere: 4.0 Service: 4.0 Value: 4.0
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