Rowland Heights: Happy Harbor Dim Sum

Before Leonard left for DC for his Masters, we decided to meet up and go all out one last time and since he was heading to the East Coast, he wanted some good dim sum so we came to Happy Harbor.

Now this spot isn't your typical cheap dim sum fare in 626. It's actually... quite expensive. The bill in the end for the both of us came out to be $30 PER PERSON. That was just ridiculous. Then again, we did order a lot since we wanted to try a few things besides the usual hahah. They also don't have the ladies pushing the cart around. You order off a menu and they bring the items to you. In a way, that's good since you know every single item is either freshly steamed or fried to your order. Located inside the 99Ranch plaza, it is just a mess to find parking and we also had to wait about 45 minutes before we were seated around 11am. Damn Chinese people... eating so early hahah.

Generally I don't really take pictures of dim sum or Chinese food in general, since I eat it so often, but when I saw the many awards and accolades it had won, I decided to bring my camera along.

Happy Harbor Restaurant

1015 Nogales St.

Rowland Heights, CA 91748

Got my hopes up when I saw how empty it was outside... later to find out everybody was inside, escaping from the sun haha.

First to arrive, 鳳爪 chicken feet! One of my favorite.

排骨 spare ribs. Good flavors on it, and not too fatty.

燒賣 shumai. Classic dim sum.

叉燒酥 bbq pork pastry. Another one of my favorite. Buttery goodness haha.

叉燒包 bbq pork bread. One of the best I've had in 626.

芋頭糕 taro cake. It was extremely soft and lots of huge taro chunks.

炸糯米雞 fried lotus leaf-wrapped sticky rice. It sounded interesting so we decided to get it. They didn't really fry the whole thing since it's more like, they pan-fried an egg then added the sticky rice onto it.

咸水餃 salty dumpling. Another fried goodness with pork mixture inside :]

小籠包 xiao long bao. Not bad here either, pretty legit.

炒腸粉 stir-fried noodles. It's similar to chowfun but they roll the noodles then they stir fry it. Really good with hoisin sauce.

春卷 egg roll. Leonard's favorite. Pretty damn good here actually haha.

水晶餃 shrimp dumpling. One thing I like a lot about this place? They gut the shrimp! No disgusting black things like many Chinese restaurants.

We really shouldn't have ordered this but Leonard convinced me that we could finish an order of 蘿蔔糕 turnip cake, even though we already had taro cake earlier. Yeaaa didn't feel that great afterwards haha.

So somehow we spend $60 after tax+tip for 13 items at a dim sum restaurant between two people. Yea... next time... more self-control and definitely listen to my stomach when it says it is full.