Fans of good old dim sum, listen up. If you’ve been making the regular trek to Upper Thomson Road for stacks of steaming baskets filled with siew mai and har gow at Hua Nam Restaurant, you’d better head over a couple more times before the place shutters for good at the end of March.
Run by third generation owners in their 50s and 60s who wish to retire and haven’t been able to find a suitable successor, the 49-year-old eatery is one of the more popular haunts along the cafe-crowded stretch. From humble beginnings as a roadside hawker stall in the ’50s to its current coffeeshop space in a shophouse, Hua Nam steadily produced about 1,000 steamers of handmade dim sum daily at its peak — but the increase in surrounding competitors and the MRT construction nearby has affected its profits.
So if you’re craving old school dim sum, you know what to do before April rolls around.
