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The food was good, and the price was ok. Anyhow, I would not recommend this restaurant if you are expecting good, quality service. The waiters and waitresses were slow. You have to ask for every little thing (hot sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper, water...) Usually, when you go to a chinese restaurant for dim sum, all the condiments are ready at the table, as for this restaurant, not only do you have to ask for every little bit of condiment, you also have to wait for the waiter to give it to you piece by piece. By the time I got my salt and pepper, my congee was already cold. And by the time I got my hot sauce, most of my dim sum were cold. The manager even had the ridiculous mindset to think he can ask me for 15% gratuity as I was walking out the door! I asked him if that was really neccessary even if I didn't feel the service was that good, he then rudely marched to the counter and grabbed a flyer of a specail menu that states on the very bottom in very small prints, " 15% gratuity is recommended for a party of 10 or more". However, I was there with only one other friend, which makes the 2 of us with bad, rude service. I felt like I was being panhandled for money, just like how homeless people would approach me in the streets for some change, but it seemed unneccessary for a known restaurant. After I said the service wasn't too good to deserve 15%, he told me how the restaurant was rated in the top 100 of best restaurants. The review and rating was for the year 2004! Try to get the same rating for this year. Other than poor management, everything was toleratable, but I will not ever go there again, and I don't recommend it to those who dislike being panhandled.

This place isn't the cheapest place to eat dim sum, but they are consistent and the food is good. It's not greasy or full of MSG like some of the other dim sum resturants. Not all the waiters speak english, but the food comes out fast. They have a good variety. The jook use to have the big flakes of salt in it and was really great on a cold day. The last three times I went and ordered it, the big flakes of salt were missing. That's the only fault I can find with the food.

South sea seafood village has just acceptable dim sum, but phenomenal crab jook and a really wonderful selection of teas. everytime my parents come to the u.s. to visit (they live in taiwan/ thailand), they ask me to take them to sssv for the crab jook and the tea service.