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2200 W. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO 80223

303-727-9889

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Westword
Recommended
Best Dim Sum
Award Winner 2012

Cuisine(s): Chinese

Hours: Daily 10am-10pm

Price: $

Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, cash, ATM/Debit
Attire: Casual

Features: Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Lunch

Alcohol: Beer/Wine
Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Lot Available

Description

Super Star has at least three menus, maybe four, listing dim sum during the day and dinner after that, with one version for Chinese-speaking customers and another for everyone else, and listing everything from siu mai to shark's fin soup. The dim sum offerings change every day, and every day they are amazing, overwhelming, habit-forming to the point of being nearly narcotic.

2012 | Best Dim Sum

Even a recent expansion hasn't thinned the impenetrable crowds that descend upon Super Star Asian. They huddle and mutter under their breath near the doorway, their eyes peering over the cavernous combat zone, where fast-moving carts dash between big, round tables covered with bamboo steamers of everything under the dim sum sun: terrific shu mai and congee, salt-and-pepper shrimp, barbecued pork buns and egg-custard tarts, chicken feet and Peking duck. And while you'll bust your belt, beg... More »
2009 | Best Chinese Restaurant

The spartan Super Star Asian is primarily known for its dim sum, but that's really just the start of what it does. The restaurant has another menu for those days that aren't Saturday or Sunday, those hours that aren't between early morning and just-past-noon. It is this menu that offers the quote/unquote French-style cubed beef in black sauce, the shark's fin soup, the jellyfish salad and the completely non-threatening sesame chicken. As a dim sum restaurant, Super Star is among the best in... More »
2008 | Best Dim Sum

We've lost count of how many different versions of dumplings are served at Super Star; of how many different ways pork can be prepared; of how many huge plates of delicious salt-and-pepper shrimp we've seen disappear just before the cart makes it to our table. But an unexpectedly delicious dish is always just a cart away. Taro balls, for example -- who would've thought taro balls could be so good And even the simplest plate of steamed greens is a treat, Chinese collards redolent of... More »
2007 | Best Dim Sum

When it opened early in 2006, Super Star Asian didn't just raise the bar on Chinese cuisine. It took the bar, broke it over its knee, threw the pieces away and then made an entirely new bar that's held so high you can't even see it from the kitchens of most of the Chinese joints in this town. The daily dim sum is amazing -- an ever-changing, never-ending panoply of delicious things to shove in your mouth, the best you're going to find anywhere outside of Chinatown in San Francisco or New... More »
2007 | Best Authentic Chinese Restaurant

If we could go to only one restaurant for the rest of our lives, Super Star would rank high on the list. Although there are probably better restaurants in Denver, sitting in that blank, almost anonymous space (just a restaurant-shaped hole in Alameda Square, next to the place that offers herbal medicine, phone cards and tax advice, just down from the other place with the $1.99 Mexican lunch combos), we can't quite remember their names. Though Super Star offers a regular lunch and dinner menu... More »

Round two with Dean Huang, exec chef of Super Star Asian

By Lori Midson | Thu, March 15, 2012

Dean Huang Super Star Asian 2200 West Alameda Avenue, #5A www.superstardenver.com 303-727-9889 This is part two of my interview with Dean Hunag, exec chef of Super Star Asian. Part one of our conver... More »
Super Star Asian's Dean Huang on the stink of "fine shrimp sauce," food sculpture and the city's best Chinese restaurant

By Lori Midson | Wed, March 14, 2012

Dean Huang Super Star Asian 2200 West Alameda Avenue, #5A www.superstardenver.com 303-727-9889 This is part one of my interview with Dean Hunag, exec chef of Super Star Asian. Part two of our conve... More »
Super Star Asian is remodeling and expanding -- big time

By Lori Midson | Thu, October 6, 2011

Shawn Tram is rattling off the names of Denver chefs and restaurateurs who have recently stuffed themselves to the brink at Super Star Asian, the Chinese emporium, renowned for its dim sum, that Tram ... More »
Sum More, Please

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 06, 2006

"Yes, please." "Yes, please." "Yes, please." For two solid hours at Super Star Asian, from one until three on a Sunday afternoon, the food never stopped coming. Brought on carts and plates, on unbreakable orange plastic cafeteria trays carri... More »
Shark Bite

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 06, 2006

I had my very first bowl of shark's fin soup last week at Super Star Asian (see review). As a culinary indulgence, it wasn't worth the money; if I'm paying $46 for a bowl of soup, it had better come garnished with about $38 in small bills. But as ... More »

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andrei_abiin | CO | 1 Reviews

| Wed, March 28, 2012

Shark fin soup is nothing but a symbol of a status for Chinese!!! It has no nutritional value or tatse what so ever. It gives only some texture. It is really a SHAME to consume shark fin soup. It's inhuman to support the shark finning and restaurants that sell this product!!!!
SAY NO TO SHARK FINNING, REMAIN HUMANS !!!! SHAME ON YOU Super Star Asian!!!!
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Matt703 | 1 Reviews

| Fri, January 13, 2012

JUST SAY NO TO SHARK FIN SOUP. Was really looking forward to going there for Dim Sum. Since I heard that it has some of the best Dim Sum and one of the very few places in Denver to get my favorite thing BBQ pork Bao's. BUT being a huge supporter of the stop shark finning cause. There is no way I would ever set foot in a place that serves Shark Fin soup. Can't believe they are allowed to even serve it. NO way Superstar!! NO way will I ever come to your restaurant.
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westwordbestof | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

The spartan Super Star Asian is primarily known for its dim sum, but that's really just the start of what it does. The restaurant has another menu for those days that aren't Saturday or Sunday, those hours that aren't between early morning and just-past-noon. It is this menu that offers the quote/unquote French-style cubed beef in black sauce, the shark's fin soup, the jellyfish salad and the completely non-threatening sesame chicken. As a dim sum restaurant, Super Star is among the best in the city. But as a straight, nose-to-tail Chinese restaurant? There's simply no place better.
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Super Star Asian

2200 W. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO 80223

303-727-9889

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2012 | Best Dim Sum

2009 | Best Chinese Restaurant

2008 | Best Dim Sum

2007 | Best Dim Sum

2007 | Best Authentic Chinese Restaurant

Round two with Dean Huang, exec chef of Super Star Asian

By Lori Midson | Thu, March 15, 2012

Super Star Asian's Dean Huang on the stink of "fine shrimp sauce," food sculpture and the city's best Chinese restaurant

By Lori Midson | Wed, March 14, 2012

Super Star Asian is remodeling and expanding -- big time

By Lori Midson | Thu, October 6, 2011

Sum More, Please

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 06, 2006

Shark Bite

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 06, 2006

andrei_abiin | CO | 1 Reviews

Matt703 | 1 Reviews

westwordbestof | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

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