Fish tanks filled with about-to-be-entrées line the wall near the open kitchen at T.C. Choy’s Asian Bistro, which draws crowds for fresh seafood and some of the best dim sum in the Tampa-St. Pete area. Founders Tak and Chan Choy also own the large Oceanic Asian Supermarket and know the value of variety and exotic ingredients. Dim sum is only available during lunch, when the restaurant can get particularly crowded while the selections are wheeled around the dining room on carts. The Asian Fusion cuisine is served with heavy Cantonese influence here with entrées such as Peking duck, buffalo sushi, tofu medallions and Japanese buckwheat pasta with crab, cucumber, seaweed, scallions and tomato. Fresh seafood includes eel, snapper, octopus, lobster and prawns. The fried, whole perch, which arrives upright on your plate, is a treat.
Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner Wed–Mon. Closed Tue.
"The longest menu in town and the freshest inventory, even if you don't count the best dim sum dumplings."
— Tampa Bay Times
Fish tanks filled with about-to-be-entrées line the wall near the open kitchen at T.C. Choy’s Asian Bistro, which draws crowds for fresh seafood and some of the best dim sum in the Tampa-St. Pete area. Founders Tak and Chan Choy also own the large Oceanic Asian Supermarket and know the value of variety and exotic ingredients. Dim sum is only available during lunch, when the restaurant can get particularly crowded while the selections are wheeled around the dining room on carts. The Asian Fusion cuisine is served with heavy Cantonese influence here with entrées such as Peking duck, buffalo sushi, tofu medallions and Japanese buckwheat pasta with crab, cucumber, seaweed, scallions and tomato. Fresh seafood includes eel, snapper, octopus, lobster and prawns. The fried, whole perch, which arrives upright on your plate, is a treat.
Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner Wed–Mon. Closed Tue.
"The longest menu in town and the freshest inventory, even if you don't count the best dim sum dumplings."
— Tampa Bay Times