the good stuff about Sum Dim, what is it?
Question · by grant_clover_94108 · Member since Sep 2026 · 1 post · 7w7 weeks ago
Dim sum restaurant in San Francisco, CA
3.8 · 726 reviewsOpens today at 11:30 AMOpens today at 11:30 AM
Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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What Sum Dim offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Friday or Saturday, before noon.
Busiest Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 PM.
Far East Cafe is next door for Cantonese food.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 19, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
Closed now. Busiest Sat and Sun, 1 to 4 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about Sum Dim.
3.8from 726 reviews on Google
Sum Dim Sum offers quick service and generous portions but struggles with food quality and customer service consistency. Customers describe a mixed experience at Sum Dim Sum, with some enjoying the quick service and tasty food, while others report issues with food quality and service. The atmosphere is often noted as busy and somewhat chaotic, with complaints about cleanliness and staff attentiveness.
Listed on 0 of the 26 directories AI reads.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
34 San Francisco avg
Signal and how much it countsSum Dim
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Sum Dim, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Sum Dim, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Sum Dim. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Dim sum restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 9, 2026.
Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 9, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Sum Dim Sum is a dim sum restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 24 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Dim sum restaurant |
| Address | 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM |
| Phone | (415) 362-1118 |
| Rating | 3.8 across 726 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Sum Dim Sum | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 362-1118 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Bubble tea | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Dim sum | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Made-to-order dim sum | AI guess | |
| Links | Website | http://www.sumdimsumsf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA. Phone: (415) 362-1118. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum."
Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Chinatown view point | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |
| Old Saint Mary's Cathedral | Church | 1 min walk |
| America & Asia mural | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |
| California St & Grant Ave/Chinatown | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Hidden Dragon Mural | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |
| Parking garage | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
3.8 average across 726 reviews: Google 726. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)
Sum Dim Sum offers quick service and generous portions but struggles with food quality and customer service consistency. (AI guess, from 726 reviews.)
Listed on 0 of the 26 directories we checked.
| Directory | Listed |
|---|---|
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Not listed | |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Groupon | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| OpenTable | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Tripadvisor | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco dim sum restaurants run 24 to 47. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sum Dim scores 24, below the San Francisco average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Sum Dim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 73 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 85 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 0 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a dim sum restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sum Dim Sum | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.sumdimsumsf.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city | City Sum Dim is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the dim sum restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# Sum Dim Sum, San Francisco CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/sum-dim-sum-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/sum-dim-sum-san-francisco-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Sum Dim Sum is a dim sum restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 24 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Dim sum restaurant | | Address | 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | | Phone | (415) 362-1118 | | Rating | 3.8 across 726 reviews on Google | | Quietest time | Tuesday | | Updated | September 9, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Sum Dim Sum | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (415) 362-1118 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Bubble tea | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Dim sum | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Made-to-order dim sum | AI guess | | | Links | Website | http://www.sumdimsumsf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Sum Dim Address: 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA. Phone: (415) 362-1118. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum." ### When to go Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Chinatown view point | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk | | Old Saint Mary's Cathedral | Church | 1 min walk | | America & Asia mural | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk | | California St & Grant Ave/Chinatown | Transit station | 1 min walk | | Hidden Dragon Mural | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk | | Parking garage | Parking lot | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 3.8 average across 726 reviews: Google 726. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.) Sum Dim Sum offers quick service and generous portions but struggles with food quality and customer service consistency. (AI guess, from 726 reviews.) ### What people like - Quick service - Generous portions - Interesting $15 menu ### What people do not like - Undercooked chicken - Food quality inconsistent - Poor service and communication - Long waits for food - Unclean environment ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Listed on 0 of the 26 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Alignable | Not listed | | Angi | Not listed | | Apple Maps | Not listed | | BBB | Not listed | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Brownbook | Not listed | | Chamber of Commerce | Not listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | DexKnows | Not listed | | Facebook | Not listed | | Foursquare | Not listed | | Groupon | Not listed | | Hotfrog | Not listed | | Manta | Not listed | | MapQuest | Not listed | | MerchantCircle | Not listed | | Nextdoor | Not listed | | OpenTable | Not listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Tripadvisor | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yellowbook | Not listed | | Yellow Pages | Not listed | | Yelp | Not listed | ## Questions people ask ### rough idea what Sum Dim costs? ### the good stuff about Sum Dim, what is it? ### walk in at Sum Dim in San Francisco, or is it appointment only? ### last update from here was when? ### Worth the hype at Sum Dim? ### picking between the two, is Yank Sing the safer bet? ### Which dim sum restaurants are open late in San Francisco? ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? ### What dim sum restaurant questions is San Francisco asking AI most? ### Are the hours on Google right for this place? ### somewhere cheaper in San Francisco that is not a risk? ### same day tables, does that ever happen here ### anything good on Grant to kill time near this place? ### address for this place, anyone have it? ### how much is a first visit around here ### best dim sum restaurant in San Francisco ### first visit at Sum Dim, what do I need to bring? ### Busiest day at Sum Dim, anyone know? ### Where can I find the best dim sum restaurant in San Francisco? ## The AI Score: 24 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco dim sum restaurants run 24 to 47. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sum Dim scores 24, below the San Francisco average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Sum Dim | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 73 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 85 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 0 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a dim sum restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Sum Dim | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sum Dim Sum | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.sumdimsumsf.com/ | Subject of this page | | San Francisco, California | City | #city | | City Sum Dim is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the dim sum restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best dim sum restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/dim-sum-restaurant - Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco ### Nearby - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view - /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJo7SnirKBhYARAlLOw0n_s9k (accessed Sep 9, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 13, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 13, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Dim sum restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Sum Dim Sum, San Francisco CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 9, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 9, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
</header>
<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Sum Dim Sum is a dim sum restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 24 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Type</td><td>Dim sum restaurant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 362-1118</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>3.8 across 726 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Tuesday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 9, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Sum Dim Sum</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 362-1118</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>11:30 AM to 7:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Bubble tea</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Dim sum</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Made-to-order dim sum</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>http://www.sumdimsumsf.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-sum-dim">
<h3>Visiting Sum Dim</h3>
<p>Address: 601 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA. Phone: (415) 362-1118. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Colorful Chinese corner locale with Koi Palace ties that serves bubble tea & made-to-order dim sum."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Chinatown view point</td><td>Tourist attraction</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Old Saint Mary's Cathedral</td><td>Church</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>America & Asia mural</td><td>Tourist attraction</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>California St & Grant Ave/Chinatown</td><td>Transit station</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hidden Dragon Mural</td><td>Tourist attraction</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Parking garage</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>3.8 average across 726 reviews: Google 726. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)</p>
<p>Sum Dim Sum offers quick service and generous portions but struggles with food quality and customer service consistency. (AI guess, from 726 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
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<li>Quick service</li>
<li>Generous portions</li>
<li>Interesting $15 menu</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Undercooked chicken</li>
<li>Food quality inconsistent</li>
<li>Poor service and communication</li>
<li>Long waits for food</li>
<li>Unclean environment</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Listed on 0 of the 26 directories we checked.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Directory</th><th scope="col">Listed</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Alignable</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Angi</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apple Maps</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>BBB</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Birdeye</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Brownbook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chamber of Commerce</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cylex</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>DexKnows</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Facebook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Foursquare</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Groupon</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hotfrog</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Manta</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MapQuest</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MerchantCircle</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nextdoor</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenTable</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Superpages</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thumbtack</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tripadvisor</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Trustpilot</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tupalo</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yellowbook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yellow Pages</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yelp</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
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</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>rough idea what Sum Dim costs?</h4>
<h4>the good stuff about Sum Dim, what is it?</h4>
<h4>walk in at Sum Dim in San Francisco, or is it appointment only?</h4>
<h4>last update from here was when?</h4>
<h4>Worth the hype at Sum Dim?</h4>
<h4>picking between the two, is Yank Sing the safer bet?</h4>
<h4>Which dim sum restaurants are open late in San Francisco?</h4>
<h4>Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?</h4>
<h4>What dim sum restaurant questions is San Francisco asking AI most?</h4>
<h4>Are the hours on Google right for this place?</h4>
<h4>somewhere cheaper in San Francisco that is not a risk?</h4>
<h4>same day tables, does that ever happen here</h4>
<h4>anything good on Grant to kill time near this place?</h4>
<h4>address for this place, anyone have it?</h4>
<h4>how much is a first visit around here</h4>
<h4>best dim sum restaurant in San Francisco</h4>
<h4>first visit at Sum Dim, what do I need to bring?</h4>
<h4>Busiest day at Sum Dim, anyone know?</h4>
<h4>Where can I find the best dim sum restaurant in San Francisco?</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 24 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco dim sum restaurants run 24 to 47. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sum Dim scores 24, below the San Francisco average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Sum Dim</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>0</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>73</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>50</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>85</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a dim sum restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
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<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Sum Dim</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Sum Dim Sum</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>http://www.sumdimsumsf.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Francisco, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Sum Dim is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the dim sum restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best dim sum restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/dim-sum-restaurant</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
<li>/santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
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<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJo7SnirKBhYARAlLOw0n_s9k (accessed Sep 9, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 13, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 13, 2026)</li>
</ul>
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