Don Mee Seafood Restaurant

Great place! The food was delicious, lots of options and flavours. The service was nice and appreciated. I love how it's like a mobile buffet! I recommend. The place looked amazing when I walked in!

I found it somewhat mediocre... not bad, not particularly good, just a typical Chinese restaurant. The only really good dish we had was the hot pot beef. Even the fresh lobster with ginger and scallions wasn't that good, ginger seemed weak.

Service was decent.

Ambiance was ok... they had tablecloths, atmosphere was that of a typical Chinese restaurant

Again, I'm surprised this place has such bad reviews.

We had togo dim sum.

Shrimp Balls 5/5
BBQ Pork 3/5 - a little dry...didn't look like the advertised pic lol
Shrimp Xíu Mai 5/5

Worth a stop when in Chinatown.

Overall good food, could have been more flavor forward but I don't have much experience with authentic Chinese cuisine to say it's right or wrong. We enjoyed the food. Attentive service. Coming back to Victoria, and we will be back!

Great service and ambiance. The staff were very friendly and frequently carted more dim sum options.
We especially enjoyed the scallop congee and garlic bok choy. I don't remember the names, but the vegetable dumplings, sesame balls, and shrimp balls were also wonderful. I found the prices very affordable.

I should have listened to the bad reviews and skipped this place but gave it a try because someone personally said it was good. The over priced food was bad and the service was even worse. The beef was as hard as cardboard and the beef lettuce wrap was so salty that we had to drink 3 bottles of water afterwards. Skip this place and go any other Chinese Restaurant down the street. Would not recommend!

Service was very slow. To order a soda was like pulling a tooth. OMG food was lacking flavor. The carts are always on the other side of the room like it was a special area of the restaurant. Who knew that was possible? We waited for 30 minutes, yes, 30 min for BBQ BOA, Here is the kicker before that we were asking for BBQ. All we got from the staff was I don't know. I have shrimp rolls....... BOTTOM line never again will we go there !!!! DON'T......

FOOD WAS SO GOOD, I FORGOT TO TAKE THE TIME TO TAKE PICS BECAUSE I WAS EATING SO FAST. I actually sucked the meat off of my chicken feet. This place is so much better than the dim sums I've had in SoCal, USA. I don't see how people complain about service when there's clearly a language barrier. They understand enough to get you what you And of course we fought over the bill.

While we were visiting Victoria, BC in Canada during our stopover from our cruise, we decided to check out Chinatown. It's pretty small, maybe a couple blocks at the most. We wanted dim sum so saw this restaurant and decided to try it out. When entering the place, we expected that it was ground level, but we had to go upstairs to dine. Also didn't see any elevators so I wonder how this would service the handicapped. We got our table fairly quick but got seated a little far (all the way in the back) from the main area. Let's start with their service: I would say their service was lacking and very slow. I felt where we sat, we were unnoticeable and ignored a lot. It took them almost 15 min before we even got our waters. We also wanted a regular menu to order off and we had to ask like 3 times before we finally got it. We also asked for our soy sauce bottle to be refilled or changed out since there was hardly anything left and that took many tries to get one. I finally flagged a waiter to just grab another one from an empty table. The dim sum cart ladies were not very pleasant and gave us a hard time when ordering. We ordered first one tray of xiao long bao to try. Then we requested another tray and the lady gave us a stare and raised her voice and asked "just one" like she was annoyed that we didn't order more or if she was thinking why we didn't just order 2 trays to begin with cause she had to get another tray and mark our paper. Another problem with where we were seated is there are steps to get to our table so the carts can't come up so that means whatever we ordered, they would have to come up the few little steps to drop off the food. So I think that's why they would be annoyed. Now on to the food: thinking it was a legit dim sum restaurant in Chinatown, it would be decent to good. Boy were we wrong! All their dim sum items were terrible! Tasted like it was made a day old or from frozen. Did not taste fresh at all. The xiu mai, har gow, xiao long bao were terrible! Had no flavor and it felt like it were microwaved. The sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves was so mushy and was missing a lot of ingredients a normal one would have. People have raved about Chinatown in Victoria, but this particular restaurant was not a hit at all. Definitely avoid this place and do more research of other places to eat around in Chinatown. Only reason I gave it a 2 star is because the prices were decent compared to here in San Diego. Or else I'd give it a 1 star for its service and food quality.

Dim sum is the same usually everywhere you go. Here at Don Mee, they have authentic Taiwanese and Chinese dim sum dishes! The food comes out hot and prepared right away! The service lacks a little because they are busy from open to close. Normally a little bit of a wait, but well worth it! The duck is seasonal, so be prepared. The pork and seafood are a must try!

This is my son's experience at this restaurant. Absolutely terrible service. The manager did not even come by to apologize.

My family and I went to Don Mee in Victoria Bc Chinatown. The service was ok and we got our first item (hargou) as we were seated. I took my first bite of the hargou i bit something hard, when i took it out of my mouth it was a piece of metal the size of the tip of my pinky. We asked for the manager from a young waiter who was very confused and had no idea what to do. We waited for around 10-15 minutes for the manager only to see the young waiter comeback from the kitchen ALONE without the manager. He goes back and we wait for another 10 minutes just for the young waiter to comeback from the kitchen saying "The Manager says he is very sorry and the food will be on the house," (the Manager didnt even comeback to apologize or anything. The last thing we wanted was to continue eating there knowing a chunk of metal was found in our first dish.