Three Chinese restaurants. One Tsim Sha Tsui tower. Five floors between them — and all three have decided that the way to win is to charge you HK$7 for a basket of dim sum.
This is the most entertaining thing happening in Hong Kong food right now, and it is happening inside a single lift shaft on Nathan Road.
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What's actually happening
The ONE is the thin, tall mall at 100 Nathan Road — 29 storeys, and Hong Kong's tallest retail complex, because Tsim Sha Tsui ran out of horizontal space decades ago and started building shops upwards instead. Its upper floors are given over to restaurants, several of them large Chinese banquet halls.
Banquet halls have a structural problem: they are built for weddings, and weddings do not happen on a wet Tuesday lunchtime. That leaves an enormous dining room to fill, and dim sum is the traditional tool for filling it.
What is new is the pricing. All three are now advertising dim sum from HK$7 — a number that belongs to roughly 2005, and which each restaurant is leaning into. Grand Ballroom is literally branding its menu 時光倒流價, "turn-back-the-clock prices".
12/F — Grand Ballroom (潮‧囍薈)
The Tao Heung group venue, and the most straightforward of the three: more than 15 dim sum items at flat HK$7, HK$8 and HK$9 tiers, no discount arithmetic required.
The listed items are Chiu Chow-leaning house standards — custard buns, turnip cake, taro cake, Teochew dumplings, and spare ribs served on cheong fun. The promotional window is daily, 10.30am to 3pm, which is narrower than the restaurant's own opening hours, so turning up at 10am will not get you the price.
Grand Ballroom (潮‧囍薈)
A full banquet floor doing flat-price dim sum with no conditions attached — the simplest deal of the three.
13/F — Palace Wedding Banquet (煌府婚宴專門店)
One floor up, Palace is running the same HK$7 / HK$8 / HK$9 structure, pegged to a 20th anniversary and served daily, from the breakfast session right through to afternoon tea. That span matters: unlike the 12/F deal, lunch is included, and it runs seven days a week.
The item list skews classic-teahouse: ma lai go, dace fish balls, char siu puffs, red-oil wontons, jujube cake. It is described as limited-time, but — and this matters — no end date has been published.
Palace Wedding Banquet (煌府婚宴專門店)
A 20th-anniversary promotion that runs daily from breakfast through to afternoon tea — the only one of the three that covers lunch — with a classic teahouse item list.
17/F — Eternity (凱薈)
Four floors higher, Eternity plays it differently. Dim sum also starts from HK$7, but the real mechanism is a stacked time-slot discount — and this is where you need to pay attention:
- Monday–Friday: 20% off at lunch, 30% off at afternoon tea
- Saturday, Sunday & public holidays: 10% off at lunch, 20% off at afternoon tea
Translated into plain Hong Kong: a weekday afternoon at Eternity is the deepest cut in the building. It is also the one deal that rewards going at 3pm on a Wednesday rather than at noon on a Sunday.
Eternity (凱薈)
Dim sum from HK$7 plus percentage discounts that vary by day and time slot — the deepest discount, and the most conditions.
The ONE dim sum, floor by floor
| Floor | Restaurant | The deal | Best time to go |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/F | Grand Ballroom (潮‧囍薈) | 15+ items at flat HK$7/8/9 | Daily, 10.30am–3pm |
| 13/F | Palace Wedding Banquet (煌府) | HK$7/8/9 bands, 20th-anniversary offer | Daily, breakfast through to afternoon tea |
| 17/F | Eternity (凱薈) | From HK$7 + 10–30% off by time slot | Weekday afternoon tea (30% off) |
Is HK$7 dim sum actually any good?
Set expectations correctly and you will be fine. These are large banquet kitchens, not the twelve-seat specialists in our guide to the best dim sum in Hong Kong. Volume production means consistency rather than finesse — the har gow will not have a paper-thin wrapper, and nobody is folding fourteen pleats.
What you get instead is a proper yum cha room: trolleys or order sheets, tea, noise, families, and a bill that lands somewhere absurd. On the HK$7–9 tiers, three people can eat a genuine spread for less than one plate of pasta in Central.
The honest caveat: the cheap tiers are the cheap tiers. Order the abalone anything and the arithmetic evaporates. Stay in the promotional bands and the deal holds.
How to play it
The advantage of a price war in a single tower is that you can compare before you commit. Ride up to 17/F, look at Eternity's board, then walk down to 13 and 12. Ten minutes, three menus, no MTR ride between them.
My own rule: weekday afternoon, and go to Eternity — 30% off on top of a HK$7 base is the best number in the building. If you want zero conditions and a straight flat price, Grand Ballroom on 12/F is the uncomplicated answer.
Either way, this is a Tsim Sha Tsui afternoon. Follow it with a walk down Nathan Road, or make a day of it via our cha chaan teng guide and the best bars in TST once the tea has worn off.
Cheap dim sum at The ONE: your questions answered
The verdict
Hong Kong has spent two years being told that eating out is unaffordable. Then three banquet halls in one building quietly decided to compete on price, and a basket of dim sum went back to HK$7.
Go while the fight lasts. Nobody has said how long it will.
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