Sassy Foods - in Portola, San Francisco, CA, USA

Delicious local vegan dim sum! I love the Siu Mai and the Shrimp Har Gow. I looked forward to this place opening all last year. The staff is so great, and I always look forward to grabbing lunch. You can taste the care and quality of the menu. Please support your local vegan dim sum!

Food was amazing! It felt very authentic and just as flavorful as non-plant based dimsum. I would say this is up there as one of the best vegan places in SF. Pretty good value for the price as well, the portion sizes for the plated dishes are very large. The staff were very friendly and service was great!

Decently extensive vegan dim sum menu. Food was so so good our party enjoyed everything. I especially enjoyed the rice rolls, XLB, and salty dumplings. Prices are very affordable, we spent about $20/person and were super full. Staff is really friendly and warm too. Can't wait to go back and try more!!

Amazing vegan dim sum! The vegan menu is pretty extensive and everything we got was so delicious can’t wait to come back!

Great vegan dim-sum. Even my Chinese wife who eats meat enjoyed it.

Love, love, love this place! Wish I could come more often, but vegan dim sum/yum cha is a very special occasion. As a young vegetarian->vegan, going out to eat with my mom and friends meant generally only having a handful of choices, that almost always being Buddha's delight, or gai lan, steamed veggies, with plain rice. Sassy Foods has brought me back to my childhood with delights I haven't had in years, but my omni friends and family have agreed that it still tastes great, and has the spirit of authentic dim sum in each dish. One time, we even got these pear-shaped things and my mom said she hardly sees them outside of HK. Pictured and thoughts upon... Lo mai gai/sticky rice: The gold flake makes this feel so fancy and elevated. This was my absolute favorite dim sum morsel hands down as a kid, pre-veg. And this vegan lo mai gai is cooked just right, when steamed in the lotus leaf it becomes a very aromatic and unique flavor. I just wish it had some vegan yolk of sorts, because that is the best part, but very hard to replicate. Har gow/shrimp dumplings: The yellow wrapper has a nice chewy quality to it, a little thicker than I remember har gow to be, but this balances well with the vegan shrimp. There is a gentle flavor here that is captured very well, but I will admit myself, this one tastes the most obviously vegan. I like that because I'm vegan, but if you're hesitant on mock meats, this may not be the one for you. Chiu chow dumplings/peanut chive: The purple wrapper is super cute! These ones did not survive for a picture, but they are the most beautiful cute things ever. Taste wise, very fresh while still savory. The texture is very interesting, crunchy and soft at the same time. Siu mai/pork dumplings: I love these but my mom thinks they're salty. Cheung fun/rice noodle roll: these are a must have! There are different filling options for whatever suits your preferences. We got the Chinese donut one this time but other ones we tried before have been great too. Xiao long bao/soup dumplings: Not the restaurants fault I burnt my tongue, too delicious to not let it continue to burn my tongue further. Worth every second of flavor. Nice thin wrapper, good amount of soup, and the filling wasn't mushy. Taro cake: I LOVE when taro cake is prepared this way! This is not a sweet dish! Have it with chili oil and a splash of soy, or use any extra rice noodle roll sauce. Everything I've tried here is delicious, the level of "dim sum theatre" here is just right in my humble AB-half-C opinion. No frills, but you'll get what you want hot and fresh, you just have to know how to order. I really wish they had the egg tarts a little more available, as I've been here a handful of times but they've been sold out/not available every time. No free red bean soup either but it's okay because we never have room after all the delicious stuff!

Everything we ordered was delicious! Especially the xiao long bao. Really excited to come back and try more! Service was a bit slow but the staff are really sweet.

It’s great to have a big vegan menu and they were fine with substitutions and the food was good and the restaurant is big and parking was easy and the portions were large and Chinese pop music was fitting and fun, but the taste wasn’t great. It was just alright.