We went for yum cha on a Sunday morning. Dickson is meant to be the 'China Town' of Canberra - not so - better places to eat & they are not in Dickson.
Got there at about midday & had to wait only about 15 mins - not a problem. Got our table - two trollys were going around the restaurant - steam coming off the bamboo containers - all looked good.
Ordered eight dishes (not all at once), Chinese tea & fresh chilli. Chinese tea was good i.e.. actual tea leaves in the pot, couldn't complain about the chilli - hot and spicy. the dishes though were not very good, in fact below average. All the dishes only had 3 items per plate. e.g.. stuffed dofu was 3 pieces of puffy tofu with a bit of chicken squeezed in the middle. Pork ribs looked good and tasted ok except the bottom of the plate was cubed bits of taro just making the dish look bigger. Dumplings quite small and not hot enough, beef tendon was also not hot. Battered whitebait too oily. Only good dish was the tripe which was hot and tasted ok.
Went to pay and was very disappointed $73.40 for eight average dishes that didn't taste good.
Staff were very pleasant though.
Whole experience left a bad taste in our mouths. Definitely will not be going back & will tell all my friends to avoid.

Approximate cost: $73

Have only been there for yum cha during lunch. They are always packed out so if you wanna get a table, you have to go early. The premises is not wheelchair nor kid friendly as it is situation on first floor and can only access it by climbing a rather long flight of stair. Seating arrangements is quite cramped. No proper high chairs for children. They only have booster seat with no restraint so the kids could potentially fall.
Service standards are hmm so-so. Can never get anyone's attension. Food though is one of the better ones in Canberra for yum cha. Have not tried dinner.

I have to say I was rather disappointed with our dining experience. I ate here with about 100 others for a function. We ended up having to wait for a table to be made up and rolled out as there weren't enough seats. We went into another room and went to sit down but were scolded and told they had other guests coming to eat in there. We waited so long for food I considered eating the table cloth only to be disappointed with the quality. Everything had meat in it despite many vegetariams being present and we were told that they could not arrange vegetarian dishes. I'm not strict so could eat it but the chicken texture wasn't good. The dishes tasted of MSG. I was satisfied with one dish. It was chilli prawns. This was quite nice. The rest was not good at all and I foumd myself staring out the window wondering if I could escape and get some reasonable grub.

Approximate cost: $35