Dim Sum Icon

We all heard about how Gudetama has incorporated into Dim Sum dishes at Dim Sum Icon and decided to give it a try especially on the part where the Golden Custard fillings oozing out of Gudetama’s butt.
Unfortunately, the theme for Gudetama was over during our visit and it was changed into little twin stars. Having heard of the little twin stars and following the hype, we were luckily to get a high table that accommodates 6 pax.
We have heard queues up to an hour and there was no surprise when we saw the notice. What matter most was that we were lucky to have seat. However do note that you may have to wait up to an hour under peak hours.
Even though theme Gudetama has been over, we still can find trace of it in the restaurant like this cute little display board right at the shop front.
For those who will like to get Gudetama merchandise, clothing are available for purchase too.
Crowd gradually comes in after us and soon the place was fully packed. With theme Twin Stars served with their Dim Sum, Dim Sum Icon has become an «instagram-​worthy» place to visit. Almost every table I observed had their dish snapped by the camera before consumption.
If you are a fan of Little Twin Stars, you can grab this disposable paper mat for your collection.
Even Chinese tea over in Dim Sum Icon was served in the cute little Twin Stars tea cup, not mentioning the Tea Pot too!
Pu Er Tea — 10 per pax
The speed of serving from the kitchen was quite efficient and soon, our table was all swarmed by the plates we ordered, leaving minimum space for photography.
A «Soon Kueh» version of steamed shrimp vegetables dumplings. Skins were as sticky as soon kueh with bouncy chewy prawns and vegetables as fillings.
Steamed shrimp with vegetable dumplings 鲜虾菜苗饺 — 29 HKD
Steamed chicken feet with black bean and garlic sauce was sweet and came with an attention catching presentation with slice red and green chilli on top. It will be better if these chicken feet were eaten when warm and since we took some time for photography, texture did not taste ideal.
Steamed Chicken feet — 29 HKD
Mushroom, chicken, prawns and fish maw were wrapped by the bean curd skin. This combination was interesting and have a unique taste on its on.
Steamed chicken pieces with fish maw 鱼肚滑鸡扎 — 29 HKD
Cheese tarts comes in a pair featuring the Little Twin Stars. Taste was sweet and cloying, not to our liking.
Cheese Tart Topped with White Chocolate 白朱古力芝士 — 49 HKD
Topping up the Siew Mai with scallops and Little Twin Stars picture did enhance the appearance and I could not bear to eat them up. Scallop was fresh with minced pork fillings. A good thing about having Dim Sum in Hong Kong is that the smell of pork was not as strong from Siew Mai.
Siew Mai with Scallop — 69 HKD
Steamed beef balls was rather unique and was bouncy. Taste was quite pleasant with appearance similar to a big minced meat ball.
Steamed beef balls with bean curd sheet 山竹牛肉球 — 29 HKD
The Glutinous Rice reminds me of our Singapore’s version of Malay Fried Rice «Nasi Pattaya». Dish was nicely done with glutinous rice wrapped with a layer of egg and placed onto a bed of shredded lettuce. With carbo loaded from the glutinous rice, our stomach got filled up rather quickly.
Pan-​fried Glutinous Rice Dumpling with Egg 蛋煎糯米鸡 — 39 HKD
Crispy deep fried bean-​curd roll with shrimp was delicious and was not too oily if you dont mind without Little Twin Stars on it, you may order these.
Pan-​fried bean curd sheet roll with shrimp 鲜虾腐皮卷 — 35 HKD
Pour some soy sauce over and enjoy the silky smooth rice roll with beef in it.
Steamed beef & coriander rice roll — 安格斯牛肉肠 — 39 HKD
We were all spoilt by the oozing effects of creamy custard bun in Singapore. To disappoint, though these little buns were cute, they did not bring any bursting effects and so you do not need to worry about the sudden attack of hot custard fillings! Fillings were too watery and had strong vanilla taste which we find too sweet.
Creamy Custard Bun 奶皇流沙包 — 49 HKD (3 Pcs)
I seldom get to see double rolls from the dim sum place and interestingly, it was not bad. We got an overdose of shrimps here as most of the Dim Sum has this as ingredient. Apparently, they have shrimps in its core fillings wrapped by fried fritters («You Tiao») and rice roll, giving a layer of smooth exterior and crispy 2^nd layer then a soft 3^rd layer. If you love having textural bites, try this.
Steamed shrimp with vegetable dumplings 春风得意肠 — 29 HKD
Dish not commonly found in Singapore. Apparently before I could take a picture, 2 of the dace cakes were eaten by my famished friends. This cakes were not too oily and texture was springy, similar to the usual beef balls we had.
Deep fried dace cakes 鲮鱼球 （5 pcs) — 49 HKD
Dish was more of Bean Curd Sheet or more commonly known as «Tau Ki» in Singapore taste. The

After seeing a magnitude of cute/​gross photos of Gudetama buns, burgers and dim sum, I couldn’t pass up the chance to see for myself while I was in HK.
Located in The One Shopping Center, I was super surprised when I found out that there isn’t a wait at all. Our party was seated before we even got a chance to take a picture with Gudetama outside!
What we ordered:
— Seafood Rice Rolls
— Burger
— Bacon Rice
— Chocolate Buns
While everything was adorable and great photo ops, nothing tasted good. The rice rolls were hard and dry, the rice felt like it was day old and even the fries tasted stale. Only thing worth getting is the famous chocolate buns just for the novelty of it! Just keep in mind that if you wanted to see the pooping effect, you have to make sure to poke a little hole in it’s little bum!

We didn’t bother getting a number since we saw that the wait was going to be at least 90 minutes.
Since it was the middle of the afternoon, we just wanted to squeeze one of their buns! We ordered a take-​away /​take out. Paid with credit card. [Yay! Hard to find places in HK that a) takes credit card and b) without any minimum purchase] The cashier said it would be ready in 20 minutes.
There is no area for you to sit so you either stand or sit on the floor. Twenty minutes passed and we still didn’t get our to go order :(Another 15 minutes and it was finally ready.
We were so excited to squeeze the buns! However little did we know that we needed a chopstick to poke it in its tooshie. So when we did squeeze it the «poop» came out a bit weird, from the bottom. But it was a fun experience nonetheless.
…Hey wait a minute! After uploading my photo I saw that it’s suppose to just come out from the butthole! Did we get a funky bun? :(
As for the buns itself, it was just meh. The center was filled with chocolate, the Asian kind so it’s not that sweet.
Would I go back again? Probably not. It was just entertaining to squeeze the buns!

Came here with my best friend for an early lunch at 12:30pm today. Sole reason was due to the Gudetama promotion that they are doing right now from August-​September, the cute little tamago/​egg cartoon character that has become a popular hit in HK recently.
Food: ²⁄₅
The food itself was really mediocre, definitely not worth the price, but have to say, everything was really adorable, because hey! Gudetama is just way too cute! Their runny egg yolk buns weren’t runny at all, which was extremely disappointing, although we did see some of the other customers get proper runny ones. Ours was just solid and dry.
Service: ²⁄₅
Service was meh, the restaurant isn’t actually a proper restaurant, probably a little café type of thing with perhaps 20 – 30 seatings, so it really wasn’t that big. Yet it was extremely difficult to get the attention of the waiters and what not.
Overall a very disappointing experience and definitely not something I would try again, and personally am not too sure whether it’s worth it even though they are selling super cute dim sum dishes.