The Pattaya restaurants that take this dish seriously — ranked by quality and editorial verification.
Proper dim sum is a Cantonese ritual — small plates of dumplings, buns, and rolls, each made fresh, served with strong tea, ideally consumed in a noisy room with carts circulating between tables. Pattaya doesn't have many places doing it the old way, but the ones that do are excellent and worth the trek. This is where to go for a real Sunday yum cha.
The restaurant occupies a sprawling space at the Amari Pattaya on Beach Road, with the dining room organized around six visible cooking stations - Japanese sushi/sashimi/robata, Indian tandoor and curry, Chinese dim sum and wok, Italian wood-fired pizza and pasta, Mediterranea...
The brunch format is genuinely sprawling: international cuisine stations spanning seafood (oysters, prawns, sushi-grade raw fish, sashimi), grill (premium meats including occasional Wagyu), Asian (sushi, dim sum, Indian tandoor, Thai), Mediterranean and European (cheese, charc...
Beyond duck, the menu runs to 200+ items: crispy pork (kao moo krob), Hainanese chicken rice, fast wok-fired stir-fries (the kitchen's prep speed is famous - dishes typically arrive within 8 minutes), seafood claypots (crab, prawns, sea bass), Chinese soups (corn-rib, fish maw...
The dim sum program is what most guests come for - particularly the all-you-can-eat dim sum buffet (typically weekends 12:00-15:00, sometimes available weekday lunches).
For the dim sum, order: All-you-can-eat dim sum buffet (weekends)