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7320 SW Freeway Houston, TX 77074

713-779-2288

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Critics'
Pick
Best Dim Sum
Award Winner 2009

Cuisine(s): Chinese

Hours: Sun-Thu 10:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 10:30am-11pm

Price: $$
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash

Attire: Casual

Features: Business Dining, Catering, Delivery, Family Style, Private Party, Takeout
Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch

Reservations: Accepted, Recommended

Parking: Lot Available

Description

Chef and owner Hoi Fung, a Hong Kong transplant, is from a family of serious chefs. The menu lists 400-plus items, including seafood selections from six aquariums in the front of the room. The menu is sophisticated, as are the customers. A mundane-sounding dish like scallops with garlic turns out to be made from live scallops, quick-steamed and served in their shells. The city's most interesting dim sum is served here on the weekends. You can also order dim sum from a more limited menu on weekdays. (Dim sum is served from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.)

2009 | Best Dim Sum

At Fung's Kitchen, the dumplings are fresher, the seaweed is crunchier and you can get signature killed-to-order seafood items like scallops in their shells straight from the aquarium during dim sum service. You might do a double take when you walk in the door -- if it looks like the restaurant has gotten bigger, it has. Cleverly disguised within the red fabric and golden dragon decorations on the wall at one end of the dining room, there is a set of doors that roll back into the wall... More »
2008 | Best Dim Sum

The sesame balls filled with sweetened red bean paste are hot out of the fryer -- they taste like Chinese jelly doughnuts. The regular dim sum items are all nicely done, but it's the upscale exotica that catches your attention here. The cart with the shell-shaped metallic dishes of seaweed salad also carries a stylish white rectangular plate that holds the incredible combination of sliced sea snails and cucumber in chili oil and vinegar. Don't miss it! You can also order off of chef Hoi... More »
2007 | Best Chinese Restaurant

There's lots to choose from on the 400-item menu, but don't confuse this with your average Chinese take-out joint. Chef and owner Hoi Fung comes from a long line of Hong Kong chefs. He is also a pillar of the Houston Asian community. When visiting Asian royalty comes to Houston, they eat at Fung's. Live ling cod, live lobsters and live scallops -- rushed from the aquarium to the kitchen and cooked simply with a little ginger and chive -- are the restaurant's specialties. And they... More »
2006 | Best Chinese Restaurant

The steamed scallops in garlic sauce at Fung's are exquisite -- probably because the scallops are still alive when you order them. The shellfish come to the table barely cooked and attached to the shell and lovingly decorated with chopped garlic. Chef and owner Hoi Fung adheres to the culinary aesthetic of his native Hong Kong, where the belief is that fresh seafood should be served simply. A little ginger and scallion is all the sauce you'll need on the snow crab, lobster and ling cod that... More »
2005 | Best Chinese Restaurant

When Asian dignitaries visit Houston, they are most often entertained at our finest Chinese restaurant, Fung's Kitchen. The palatial red-and-gold dining room can expand to accommodate over a thousand diners. The 400-item menu includes such exotica as thousand-year-old eggs, seaweed salad and pork-blood squares. And when it comes to Cantonese seafood, you can't beat the place. The whole ling cod are alive in the aquarium until the moment you order them, and so are the fresh scallops and... More »
2004 | Best Chinese Restaurant

Fung's Kitchen Canton Seafood on Richmond, Ocean Palace in the Hong Kong City Mall and Peking Cuisine just down the Southwest Freeway from Fung's Kitchen are all rapidly gaining on the grandfather of Houston Cantonese restaurants. But Fung's remains at the top of the heap, primarily for its 400-item menu and because it's still the best place for exotic dishes such as whole ling cod and fresh scallops and oysters. They don't shuck the shellfish or kill the fish until you order them here --... More »
2003 | Best Chinese Restaurant

Like fresh fish Pick out a ling cod swimming in one of the aquariums up front and Fung's Kitchen will rush it to the stove, steam it and serve it up in a minimalist soy and ginger sauce for you. It is the purest fish flavor you will ever taste. But if fish isn't your favorite, don't worry -- you're bound to find something you like on this 400-item menu. The tofu dishes are especially good. Chef and owner Hoi Fung is originally from Hong Kong and comes from a family that has produced many... More »
2000 | Best Oysters

While many will argue that the only good oyster is a raw oyster, we believe that the oysters in garlic sauce at Fung's Kitchen will cause anyone to reconsider that position. Large (usually huge) oysters on the half shell are steamed just enough to bring out their maximum, well, oysterness, and topped with a transcendent sauce of garlic and ginger, cilantro and scallions. M.F.K. Fisher titled one of her best books Consider the Oyster. This is one oyster definitely worthy of your consideration. More »

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Main Menu

Cold Appetizer

$10.50

Cold"thousang Year Egg"cucumber & Jelly Fish

$5.99

Cold Cut Sliced Pork

$5.99

Sesame Jellyfish

$5.99

Delicious Cold Chicken Claws

$6.99

Preserved Duck Tongues

Soup

L $15.50

Dried Scallop
w/ shredded chicken

M $6.95
L $12.50

Mixed Seafood
w/ bean curd

M $6.95
L $12.50

Fish Meat
w/shredded chicken & ham

M $6.95
L $11.50

White Fungus
w/ shredded chicken

M $6.95
L $11.50

Minced Beef
w/ egg white and cilentro

Crab

Tsing Tao Dungeness Crab
w/ black pepper butter sa

Steamed Dungeness Crab
w/ garlic sauce

Dungeness Crab
w/ house special style

Steamed Dungeness Crab
w/ rice in lotus leaf

Baked Dungeness Crab
w/ ginger & green onion

Seafood

$16.99

Scallops
w/ hunan sauce

Steamed Live Scallop
w/ garlic sauc

Steamed Live Scallop
w/ black bean sauce

$16.99

Crispy Stuffed Scallop
w/ spicy salt

Live Shrimp Boiled
in hot pot w/ wine

Beef & Pork

$12.50

Sauteed Beef Toungue
w/ garden mushroom

$12.50

Hunan Beef

$12.50

Beef Fillet
w/ peking sauce

$12.50

Beef
w/ chinese broccoli

$14.50

Beef
w/ snow pea tips

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Fung's Kitchen

7320 SW Freeway Houston, TX 77074

713-779-2288

Description

2009 | Best Dim Sum

2008 | Best Dim Sum

2007 | Best Chinese Restaurant

2006 | Best Chinese Restaurant

2005 | Best Chinese Restaurant

2004 | Best Chinese Restaurant

2003 | Best Chinese Restaurant

2000 | Best Oysters

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