Precious Island Tea Shop

366 New Dorp Ln, Staten Island - 10306
168 reviews
Dim Sum Cantonese
(718) 668-2700

Food is traditional cantonese style, very big portions and tasty. Friendly service and parking on site

Delicious dim sum. Their congee is not the best imo, watery and no flavor

Love this place! Great dim sum. It is always crowded around lunch but worth the wait for a seat. The food is equal and if not better than NYC. The staff is amazing and helpful. You no longer have to drive to Brooklyn or go into the city for dim sum.

Nice place. Popular. Had no problems with service. Everybody was very helpful and attentive. Food was great, but we only had dim sum. Loved their dessert.

Brought my group here to celebrate my mother’s birthday, who specifically wanted dim sum. Regret this decision.Here’s a summary:Arrived to an incredibly warm restaurant, extremely bright lights, no background music, decor etc. unwelcoming.Given menus without dim sum. When asked for dim sum, the waiter shrugged. I ordered several apps for our group of 8. Then after ordering, was given the dim sum menu. Nothing explained, waiter actually seemed irritated.Now, I realize dim sum service can often be weekends only. But I called and asked before reserving and was told dim sum all the time.No wine list. The waiter pointed to 2 bottles on a shelf. Kind of odd because pricing per glass didn’t jive w bottle pricing. Felt like he just winged it. Even tho pricier, opted for bottle to simplify.WATER is not provided. When asked for tap water the denied us water. They only offer Costco small bottles of water at 1.5$ ea. This is unacceptable on several levels. Some ppl, like us, don’t purchase plastic bottles of water. NYC tap is fine and eco friendly. Also, for a group of 8 ppl, let’s say, everyone has 2 bottles of water … 24$ in water? So they’re either padding sales by not giving water to diners or their tap water isn’t potable. Either way, not good and I hope they remedy this.The food was fine. Not good, it bad. Staff plopped our food down without any explanation of what we were served. Sauces? We had to request and then request again what the intended use was for them. The staff was not hospitable.We frequent many dim sum restaurants. Our lackluster experience isn’t from a cultural miscommunication. The restaurant felt like we were their first customers, or we were being punked.Couldn’t recommend it less. I’m sorry to give such a poor review, but what we had planned to be a special meal, was instead quite odd and disappointing.The highlight of our meal were these cute pigs.Otherwise no recs. Also disappointing, that while I told the restaurant that this was a birthday celebration, they completely ignored this. Usually a restaurant would take note or acknowledge. I mean, we were a group of 8 eating in an otherwise empty restaurant. They could have said happy birthday and thanks for celery here.Again, odd and disappointing.

Don't bother coming here if you're white. The 2 of us came in with 6 empty tables of 6 in the restaurant. The host told that it's a 20 minute wait. Fair. Not 2 minutes later comes in 2 Asian people that sit down immediately at one of the empty tables. When i asked how come they're not waiting and we are the guy says "for a reason". I said what's the reason, he said they have a reservation. Mind you, their phone doesn't work to make a reservation. I said ok you have 5 empty tables I'm making my reservation now. He said no you wait 20 mins. We turned around and left. The racism is nauseating.

Best Dim Sum on the island. Peking duck is on point. Large variety of special dishes.

Best Dim Sum on the Island!

Only reviewing the dim sumPrices are ok, staff was friendly. Food was okay, def not as good as Brooklyn. Food needs more flavor, very bland. Free parking.

I've lived here for quite some time so I was extremely happy they finally opened a dim sum restaurant on the island, and their food is delicious! My family and I eat here at least one month. We love the dim sum noodles with vegetables and soy sauce, Chinese broccoli sauteed with garlic, baked pork buns and many of their other dim sum dishes like the steamed dumplings. They have great service even when they're really busy and the prices aren't bad. Their food is worth every penny. The parking lot is small and they're located on a busy street but there's plenty of parking around the corner.