Talk Dim Sum App Reviews

VERSION
6.9.0
SCORE
4.7
TOTAL RATINGS
345
PRICE
Free

Talk Dim Sum App Description & Overview

What is talk dim sum app? Love dim sum, but don't know what to order or how to order? Bring this app, find what you like, and tap the speaker icon to hear the dish pronounced in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) using iOS text-to-speech.

I made this app after visiting Hong Kong and trying to crash course learn Cantonese in the food courts. The early focus was just on dim sum and Cantonese text-to-speech and my favorite restaurants, but has since expanded (based on user tips and requests and my own interests) to more broadly cover Chinese and Chinese-adjacent food (over five hundred dishes) and include features such as Mandarin (traditional and simplified), search (English and Chinese), saving favorites, AI camera recognition of dishes, speech-to-text pronunciation practice, basic phrases, and over five hundred restaurants in the US (sorry, I gave up on trying to list every restaurant in the world, it's just not feasible).

Tips:

If the voice is stuck in Cantonese or Mandarin even after switching the tabs in the Practice screen, go to the Settings app, select Accessibility then Spoken Content and check the Chinese voice. If it's not one of the Siri voices, try selecting Siri in Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan.

If you don't hear the Chinese speech

1) check the mute switch on your iPhone and make sure it isn't on.
2) text-to-speech for a particular voice sometimes seems to require an internet connect, at least on initial use (same with speech-to-text, the microphone practice button).
2) sometimes a device will have trouble accessing the text-to-speech voice (it's the Hong Kong Chinese voice used for Accessibility in Settings), so try turning your device off and on.

Tapping the speaker icon plays back the Chinese pronunciation at half speed to help you learn. Tap the microphone icon to bring up more options, including adjusting the playback speed, switching between Cantonese and Mandarin, and practicing speaking (the speed and language settings are also in Settings).

Aside from the default speed, the speech may sound not quite natural because the app does not play back recorded speech but instead uses iOS text-to-speech functionality, which utters one character (i.e. one syllable) at a time, which may not match how an entire compound word or phrase is normally pronounced (you can hear this effect when using Siri).

The home screen shows categories of dishes. Tap each category to see the dishes. Or tap on the Search button at the top left (some vocabulary items like "takeout" are not in categories but available in via search).

Talk Dim Sum is developed with:

The dim sum icon from Stock Image Folio on Iconfinder.com.
The technicat logo designed by Dakota Snow.
Restaurant link icons from Simple Icons.
Photos from many dim sum excursions.
Regional map images from Wikipedia (Creative Commons License from Wikimedia).
Swift open source packages: AlertToast, ImagePickerView, LinksKit, Qgrid, SQLite.swift, SwiftUIPager, and SwiftyJSON.

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App Name Talk Dim Sum
Category Food & Drink
Published
Updated 04 July 2026, Saturday
File Size 115.34 MB

Talk Dim Sum Comments & Reviews 2026

It looks tasty but is that all?. Really..?! I know it’s just a 4 star ✋

Simple. Thank you. It is nice app.

Totally awesome app. My husband is from Macau in Speak Cantonese. I’ve been self studying Cantonese for almost 30 years. I was always frustrated when going to the restaurants because the dishes don’t seem like anything from regular Cantonese. So this app is so fantastic. I downloaded this app several years ago when it only had something like 20 or 30 dim sum dishes. About three months ago I went back to the app and was shocked to see it has so many more dishes included. I have memorized all of the dishes in the entire app for Cantonese. I also study Mandarin on the side. And was wishing that this app had also Mandarin. Today I was thinking I bet you it has Mandarin somewhere. And I just found out how to turn it on. I was extremely excited. Love this app and it’s perfect for anybody studying Mandarin or Cantonese and wants toBe able to read the menu in the Chinese restaurant

Love this app, but…. This is a great app and I’ve been able to share the names of some favorite dishes with my son. But just today when we opened the app, we were quite upset to find that all the dishes are now in mandarin instead of Cantonese. What happened? I checked the option for Cantonese instead of Mandarin and it’s all still in Mandarin. Please fix. Thank you!

Made to order. This is one of the best applications on my phone. As a 3rd generation Chinese American, it is a little embarrassing not to be able ask for my favorite items by name. This app has changed all of that. My biggest problem is that the servers now assume I’m a native speaker and start to converse with me in Cantonese about other things. I’m suddenly toast. LOL

Phrases. Can you add conversations on how to actually order something ? Like Yat lung haa cao. Leong tip cheong fun. Yap pei Cha, Fogei lip jau (to put this on a bag),and finally Maai taan.

Great App, if you don’t need to actually need to hear pronunciation.... I wanted to give this app 5 stars, however the most important aspect in teaching a non-Chinese speaker, sound, is unavailable. I’ve been eating dim sum since I can remember. Naturally, I was stoked to find this app. My Mom is seasoned in pronunciation, so I was able to learn a few basics along with the English translation. Unfortunately, while the examples have sound bites, the sound is not working; you can see the app attempting at it though as it highlights your vocabulary word by phrase. I hope this assists in working out any bugs (iPhone 7 plus) because I really want to use this app-seems like it will be really helpful.

Awesome app. A great app to say Chinese dishes correctly

My favorite underrated food app. This application is extremely useful by exploring the various Dim Sum within visuals and audio. If you’re a foodie you have to try this!

Love it!!. I am ABC!! My husband is white. Very good app for him to learn all the dim sum names!! I cannot wait to see more Chinese food added.

THEY THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING. I haven’t been this surprised by such a useful app in ages! I’d recommend it to anyone who likes Dimsum!

so awesome dim sum :). Thank you, so much for creating this app. I can speak Cantonese, however i don’t know how to read a lot of Chinese so the only dim sum names I know are some basic ones! Addition, my kids will love this! This will allow them to learn to order for themselves. If possible add some Boba names :)and the complicated ice and sugar Ritual.

Awful recordings 😂😂. I came across this app while looking for messaging apps. Having grown up in Hong Kong, I downloaded the app largely for novelty. For westerners, it might work as a reference, although some kind do filtering mechanism might help. The reason I didn’t give it 5 stars though, and the real reason I reviewed the app was the laughably bad pronunciation. It’s not that it’s inaccurate - it just sounds like a cross between Jessica Rabbit and a 450 pound manatee. I played the sound and immediately my friend asked what sounded so 核突. Please do not play these in the restaurant. They will definitely 落地笑.

Just what I’ve always wanted. I’ve been enjoying dim sum for over 40 years, but the language barrier is still sometimes a problem. The pictures and sound in this app combine for a complete solution to getting the items I'm craving. Its simplicity and clarity are hard to beat. I'm also impressed by the responsiveness of the developer. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote pointing out that if you don't speak Chinese, it can be hard to get something other than a restaurant's default tea. I suggested that adding various teas to the app would be really helpful, and now he's already started doing it! When I began eating dim sum, it required a 90-minute bus and subway trip to Chinatown in lower Manhattan. Today, there's a big dim sum palace just four blocks from my home in Queens. The Talk Dim Sum app now has a permanent place on my iPad.

Very helpful when ordering dim sum. I don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin. I'm not Chinese, but I love dim sum. I don't even remember how I even came across this app, but it is the greatest. I can now easily order all my favorite dishes; before this app, I'd have to Google a description of what I wanted to order and hope the name would come up, or I look for a photo online (all of which took way too much time, especially when I was hungry). Luckily, this app has both the written name and pronunciation of the most common foods and, in most cases, I just show the waiter/waitress the written names of the foods and get what I want.

Fix audio. A lot of the audio is incorrect

Lovingly maintained. I became interested in dim sum before a trip to San Francisco. I wanted to try it but didn’t know the names of any dishes or what each was made of. I have severe dietary restrictions, so I can’t just take a chance on whatever looks good. The photos on the app are so inviting - so many things look delicious. The app served me well for a trip to Hong Kong a few months later. There are new updates constantly, giving the impression that is made by someone who really loves working on this app and adding to it all the time. Highly recommended!

What happened to the sound?. What happened to the sound?

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Haha. Does its job and covers the main dim sum, informing the basics! 😛

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Dim Sum review. I gave it a sub-par rating because not enough dishes

Sound doesn’t work. Is it suppose to have no sound unless you upgrade?

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 12+ years and older
Current Version 6.9.0
Play Store com.technicat.dimsum
Compatibility iOS 26.0 or later

Talk Dim Sum (Versiyon 6.9.0) Install & Download

The application Talk Dim Sum was published in the category Food & Drink on 12 February 2015, Thursday and was developed by Technicat, LLC [Developer ID: 295241742]. This program file size is 115.34 MB. This app has been rated by 345 users and has a rating of 4.7 out of 5. Talk Dim Sum - Food & Drink app posted on 04 July 2026, Saturday current version is 6.9.0 and works well on iOS 26.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.technicat.dimsum. Languages supported by the app:

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