On Chinatown’s red lantern-strewn Gerrard Street, Plum Valley looks small from the outside, but it’s actually a multi-storey labyrinth of a restaurant. Follow the server’s clandestine direction of “go upstairs, turn right, then left”, and you start to feel hopeful that you’re about to be inducted into a secret dumpling society. And with more than 100 daytime dim sum options and the packed-out buzz of happy tourists and in-the-know students, it’s a society we’d like to be a part of. The food is neither hit nor miss, just Cantonese classics set to satisfy and lure you into a second order of the glossy barbecued pork buns. Come for a midweek cheung fun solo dining session if you work in the area, and then inevitably return with all the fun members of your group chat so you can make use of the lazy susans and secure one of the big, squishy booths.