Oriental Pearl Restaurant

decent food and not expensive! food: 🌝🌝🌝🌜 👍: The desserts like the fried sesame red bean ball and the steamed custard bun were really good. The vegetable and tea were also very good. **Make sure to get the dishes that come straight out from the kitchen to make sure they are not cold. 👎: Just like most other dim sum restaurants, the staff pushes the carts around, but it seemed like the carts only circulated around one area of the restaurant because we had to wait a long time until we could pick our food. Also, the food is decent and might be better than a lot of other dim sum places around, but a lot of the food we got were cold. When we asked for our food to be heated, the staff refused.. environment/service: 🌝🌝🌝🌜 The space and bathroom is very big and decently clean. The service is very fast-paced like most dim sum restaurants, but the staff here are really rude. I would say other than some of the cold food, the main problem was the staff and service. This grandma pushing the cart around was really rude and short-tempered. She misheard our order, but yelled at us. All the staff seemed to be rushing us too.

My husband and I are addicted to the hot jasmine green tea & dim sum here! Friendly staff, quick service. We love the atmosphere and its fun seeing all the steaming carts with stacks of dim sum roll by. We live an hour away and travel here once a month to get our dim sum fix! 10/10 recommend this place!

TL;DR Do not go there! Not worth your time or money. I used to go there a lot. It is one of my favorite Dim Sum places in Atlanta. Therefore, when I moved back to Georgia after five years away, this was one of the first places I tried. The result... It is such a disappointment. We should have left when I don’t see many people during a Sunday lunch. Service - The waiter who served us was rude and exceptionally not helpful. The restaurant ran out of Dim Sum… We wait for another 20 minutes for a new batch to come out. One of the servers pushing the Dim Sum cart didn’t even try to make a whole round across the dining area. The guy went back to his station and proceeded to wander around. Food - Most of the Dim Sum plate we got was bland. You can tell some of the items on the cart have been there for a while and looks dried. The only good dish I had was the chicken feet, which we waited for close to 25 minutes after sitting down. I don’t have much to say any more about this place. Just don’t go and waste your time. If you know any place that I should try out, let me know.

Just like all dim-sum restaurants, the service and employees were fast and accommodating. Some of our dishes didn’t seem fresh and tasted “re-fried” but other dishes were fine. We went right when they opened, not busy at all. We ordered their sweet and sour pork and beef chow fun and they weren’t my favorite. Oriental pearl was more pricey compared to our favorite dim sum joints. Definitely a must-try to sample all of the dim sum restaurants in the area though. Interior can definitely host parties and large groups.

Average quality Dim Sum. The shrimp they use in the Dim Sum is not fresh. It is hard, dry, and tastes like cardboard. To be fair, I'd found several other restaurants that used this poor type quality shrimp. The front door is dirty. The cloth-covered chairs looked dirty, liked they never have been washed. Also the plum sauce and mustard lids looked dirty. The servers try to give good service, but are not trained properly. So this is primarily due to poor management. The used tea pots are emptied and then refilled for the next customer, rather being washed first. This practice should not be allowed due to the Covid pandemic. When you sit down, they try to serve you Dim Sum before you even have a chance to order drinks. Finally, all of the servers are just standing around when they are not surviving food. Their time is better spent cleaning something. Most of the short comings of this restaurant is due to poor management.