Sunday, September 21, 2008

The early bird gets the dim sum

If you get there right when they open, there's no problem getting a table. Wait an hour, and you'll have to stand there hungry until someone leaves.

We had all the usual fare, plus something new to me, a sweet tofu that looked like custard. The server skims it off the top of a pot in sheets and ladles it into a bowl, and gives you another bowl of sweet palm syrup to put over it. The tofu didn't taste like much, but I liked the texture and the sweetness.

4 comments:

  1. chinatown here in NYC has street vendors that sell the tofu you mentioned, its nice and creamy and sweet with the syrup

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  2. Which dim sum-eteria was this?

    Claire @ http://culinary-colorado.blogspot.com

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  3. Kitt, I love-love your selection! That shrimp dumpling, pork dumpling, char-siu bao...!!Classic.....
    Hmmm... yum... I should have dim sum soon too!

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  4. That's cool, db. I hadn't seen that kind of tofu before. Must be a southern Chinese thing.

    Claire, it's East Ocean in Alameda, Calif.

    It was good dim sum, blue! I grabbed everything that looked good and was not disappointed.

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