126 Wan Dou Sek (Geylang)

126 搵到食, is a pretty catchy name for an old-timers dim sum restaurant. I heard alot about it and also the notorious queue that is fending me from visiting the outlet though I love dim sum alot.... So one faithful morning of a public holiday, me and me pals have decided to drop by for a late morning brunch that apparently made us waited for a good one hour before the food arrived.

Though the queue was short, we still took about half an hour before we could get this crampy seats inside the air-conditioned area. The seating area is comfy and very squeezy HK like with people consistently walking around.. Getting shoved, jabbed and elbowed is a common thing here, however, it makes up for the HongKong like Char Chan Teng culture. Its noisy, aircon pretty strong to keep everybody cool headed and the menu for ordering is thick like a photo album. For a good 8 hungry breakfast goers... we ordered 23 dishes with an assortment of steamed and deep fried stuffs. Drinks came in plastic (Dou Hua) containers and sorry... no coffee or potted tea is served... Tables are tiny yet its kinda cosy and fun.

Ordering took us about 15 mins and we waited for 15 mins before our first order arrived. The fried stuffs came first then slowly the steamed stuffs arrived... The food is pretty nice, ingredients fresh, however filling are just right, though below my expectations... there is no WOW Factor in their food.

Some of the food that we ate and how we liked it. 1) Har Kow & Siew Mai - according to dim sum lovers world wide, these 2 dishes is the must have and the benchmark to gauging if its a good dim sum place. Though the filling is fresh and crunchy, skin thin, yet it lacks the wow factor. It just tasted kinda better then normal.

2) Char siew bao - HK styled of course with the flower topped looked tasted regular only, filling could have been a little more generous

3) Xiao Long Bao - Looked Tiny to me, skin is rather thick and non elastic, and theres no soup in the bao... So its kinda dry and not so tasty.

4) Nai Huang (Salted Egg) Bao - Tasted more like custard to me, the filling is dry and the bao so tiny.

5) Chicken Feet - This is nice and yummy, well braised and skin chewy, pretty well done.

For a group of 8 and moderate eating, the bill came up to be about $95 which is a good price for brunch!

Service is good, I mean for a place like this, we would expect angry faces and loud rude shoves and shouts yet it is not so. Staff is helpful, friendly and extremely efficient. This I am WOWed....

So I'm sure to return though the food is only slightly above average, they made it up with efficient and friendly service.