![]() Teahouse owners gradually added various snacks called dim sum to their offerings. The second is dim sum, which translates literally to "touch the heart", the term used to designate the small food items that accompanied the tea. This refers to the custom of serving teahouse customers two delicately made food items, savory or sweet, to complement their tea. The first is " jat zung loeng gin" ( Chinese: 一盅兩件), which translates literally as "one cup, two pieces". " Yum cha" includes two related concepts. In the tenth century, when the city of Canton (Guangzhou) began to experience an increase in commercial travel, many frequented teahouses for small-portion meals with tea called " yum cha" ( brunch). Most modern dim sum dishes are commonly associated with Cantonese cuisine, although dim sum dishes also exist in other Chinese cuisines. It was tasty and fun.Dim sum ( traditional Chinese: 點心 simplified Chinese: 点心 pinyin: diǎn xīn Jyutping: dim2 sam1) is a large range of small Cantonese dishes that are traditionally enjoyed in restaurants for brunch. Wait, did a wise man say that or that homeless man on West 4th Street? Either way, I have no regrets about our Friday Night Dim Sum. Definitely worth getting.Īll in all, as a great wise man once said, our mistake was another man's gain-our gain-for one's gain is always worth gaining. It was moist and dense and dotted with flavor bursts that reminded me of a similar dish I had at a Vietnamese restaurant in Atlanta. I don't remember what kind of leaves they were (banana leaves?) but the rice was clearly special. ![]() Here, in our final dish, was rice baked in leaves: I noticed, in particular, the use of star anise which imbued everything with a pleasant licorice flavor. There were vegetable dumplings, that were a tad bit gummy:Īgain, though, the flavors were wonderful. The textures and balance of flavors were exemplary. Everything you see above was tweaked with extra, intriguing spices that elevated them above their humdrum fast food cousins. Kirk wasn't that hungry anyway because he ate before he met us.Įven though we'd clearly missed the boat going to a dim sum restaurant on a Friday night, the food was truly excellent. At the table we studied the dim sum menu and agreed on sharing a fried platter of shrimp buns and fried dumplings. No matter, we decided to press on anyway and let the host seat us. This gigantic ballroom of a restaurant had about 100 tables, four of which were occupied. The realization is revealed after the jump, to build suspense:ĭim sum, James suddenly revealed, is a Saturday and Sunday morning ritual. When we reached the top, we had a sudden realization. "I've walked by this place before with a friend," said James Felder, "and he said this is his favorite dim sum place. ![]() "Very good dinner," he said and we nodded and entered and rode a giant escalator upstairs. Here's what it looks like from the outside:Ī man stood out there and beckoned us inside. But because there were four of us, I figured dim sum would be a great option-so I wrote down the clear Chowhound favorite, Jing Fong, memorized the address and led our group there when I greeted them downtown. I knew very little about dim sum except that many people love dim sum and that I'd had a bad dim sum experience last year when shooting our Chinatown video which you can watch in the videos section. ![]() In the meantime, I began my ritualistic pre-dinner research: I went on Chowhound and searched "Chinatown" and somehow, through the maze of threads, wound up on a long discussion about dim sum. We called a few more peeps from our posse and planned to meet on the corner of Canal and Broadway. So on Friday night, when making plans with Diana, I said: "Let's go to Chinatown!" and she agreed. Now that I've been bitten by the Chinatown bug, I make an effort to go there as much as possible. ![]()
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