BEST DIM SUM RESTAURANT
Legend Seafood Restaurant

	A few dim-sum delights from Legend Seafood Restaurant include, from left, front row: taro puffs, shrimp dumplings and look funn (steamed rice pasta rolls) with shrimp; middle row: egg custard tarts, seafood dumplings, scallop and spinach dumplings, and shrimp pork hash; back row: barbecue pork pastries, steamed barbecue pork buns and sweet sesame balls. One of the pleasures of enjoying dim sum is that you can have as little or as much as you like.
	Joaquin Siopack | The Honolulu Advertiser

You can tell right away that this no-nonsense banquet room is among the yum-cha restaurants favored by immigrant Chinese — though you'll also see plenty of locals not of Chinese ancestry. It's Hong Kong-style chaos at its best, where the rice gruel with pork intestine is served, and you must compete with other tables for the attention of the ladies strolling by with their carts. Legend has a more comprehensive dim sum menu than most on the island, including dishes cooked tableside. Best egg custard tarts ever.

Two locations: 100 N. Beretania St. 532-1868. Breakfast and lunch: 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday- Sunday; dinner: 5:30-9:30 p.m. daily. Also, Waikiki Trade Center, 2255 Kuhio Ave. 926-8999. Breakfast and lunch: 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. daily; dinner: 5:30-9 p.m. daily.

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