Bistro 1968

Free parking!!! They have a lot next to their entrance with pretty wide spaces. What a treat. If you don’t want to wait in line for a table, it’s best to get there right when they open or at least by 11am. They also had a projector where sports was being shown. Maybe they do football Sundays?

Of the dishes we tried, these stuck out to me:

-baked pork bun. Their bun was so unique. It tasted like the pineapple bun topping - the best part of the bun!

-sticky rice in lotus leaf. This was a generous portion and had a lot stuffed into it

-pan fried noodle in chili oil sauce. I could’ve eaten a whole plate. It came a couple veggies too: mushrooms and snap peas

-pumpkin sesame ball. 4 balls in one order. Two of them are red bean and 2 are pumpkin??? Wasn’t really sure why they call it pumpkin when two were clearly stuffed with red bean. They were tasty though!

-lobster roll. This was good but I’m not sure if I would order it again. The consistency of the lobster tasted a lot like shrimp and who knows, there might have been shrimp in there. The crunchy wrapper was good though.

They have the dim sum staples too including two versions of har gow - regular and golden. According to my friends, the golden one wasn’t really that much different in taste than the regular. It just looked fancy.

A dish that fell short was the XLB. There wasn’t much soup and the dumpling wrapper was on the thicker side. It had a lot of filling but reminded me more like a meatball than a dumpling.

I’d definitely go back to try a couple more dim sum dishes and their regular menu items. I was salivating at the large plates of noodles that were being delivered to other tables.

I thought the price was in line with some of the other nicer ambiance dim sum places. The food tastes fresh and I didn’t feel sleepy after.

Delicious reopened dim sum spot. Literally all your classic dim sum dishes hand made and fire. One of my favorite new spots. Meat balls fire. Duck fire. Har gow delicious.

food was awesome. but a bit pricey. looks like staff not enough for the surge of customer. will be back.

This newly opened dim sum place is basically the same restaurant as the defunct Bistro 168 restaurant in Arcadia. The dim sum and food menu is about the same. Their formula is to provide good food and good service at a reasonable price. But with inflation, don’t expect huge portions for each dish.

Hearing everyone on Yelp’s raving about this restaurant during their grand opening period, we decided to give it a try to see if the restaurant stills provides the food food as the Arcadia location.

We walked in the restaurant and got a modern feel for the place. Its decor seemed to blended in the modern design with Chinese elements.

Besides the good vibe decor, their foods is where this restaurant excelled. All the popular dim sums we tried were outstanding. We had har gaw, Siu Mai, char siu bao, sticky rice in lotus wrap that had exceeded our expectations with excellent quality food and delicious tasty.

The regular dishes are amazing as well. We got their mandarin pork ribs and it was stunningly delectable. I love the crispy outer layer with tender inner layer meat. The sweet and sour sauce was mixed in the right levels of savory, sour and sweetness. It seems that they have an excellent chef that’s helming the kitchen.

The service was equally impressive. The waiters were very quick in taking orders and the food came out in a very short amount of time. I believe they will do well with their dinners.

Parking is in the back and the lot is kind of small but there are plenty of street parkings.