Koi Palace - Daly City

Good place for authentic Chinese food but worth the price? no. the fried rice the ink was terrible, simply stick with the basilikum fried rice. the boiled chicken was good and peking duck, but all they are looking in a dimmed sum is not there. they have no many number of veggie stir fry options and their pan roasted chow noodles was okay, not the biggest. tofu court was bad

We only ate here for the dimsum, but honestly everyone of what we have ordered was very good. we usually started with the suceai and hagao as Litmus check that immediately got our stamp of the permit. next were the ersatzrib, casiubao, xiaolongbao and shanghai dumplings super good. baked Taro dumpling was brilliant, carrot/deikon cake was good as expected, lomaigai was perfection, even the chicken cakes were thick and creamy. as desserts were sesameballs satisfying and durian puff was creamy and not exaggerated.

Great place to eat place to invite friends and family meetings! highly recommended?.

Lousy quality food and way overpriced for dim sum. So har gao is $8.50 let that sink in…That’s absurd.We got 10 dishes and paid $70 in total for it. That’s really expensive and the food was not even hot for takeout. We got har gao, shui mai, maligo (because no maligurn), plain rice roll, shrimp rice roll, egg yolk lava bun, and custard pineapple buns, beef balls, and fried tofu. The rice rolls were a bit cold and this hard even though we drove one block up home to eat it. I did like how the shrimp was very large in the shrimp rice roll. The egg yolk lava bun was cold and the supposed runny lava was chunky and dry. The bread was tough. It’s not worth the expense of buying dim sum here if everything you get is cold.

Just a warning. This place is quite authentic. The prior two times I was with someone that spoke Cantonese and there was no hiccup in service, hence the higher rating. If this was just my last experience I would have rated them more a 2.5 to 3. Went there last on a Sunday night and it was more traditional service with a limited menu. No dim sum, especially pork buns which was the hankering. I would have appreciated if they had guided me to order half of what I did, I had no idea the serving sizes as the prices ran from $9 to $170. I believe this is the same Koi Palace in terminal 3 at SFO, and honestly, my kids liked that meal a lot more than our Sunday meal for 3x the price.