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| (l to r) seafood chow mein, vegetarian platter, chicken feet, rice congee, squid tentacles, shrimp and green onion pancakes, har gow, (centre:) beef cheung fun, turnip cakes |
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| pig trotters with eggs |
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| beef tendons |
My approximately 85 year old aunt was in town and invited me to a wonderful dim sum lunch. There were 8 of us. I haven't had dim sum in a restaurant since covid began. This restaurant had delicious dishes as pictured above. Well some of the dishes are exotic and not to everyone's taste. It is interesting, I enjoy beef tendons and the pig trotters weren't bad, but my aunt ate all of the chicken feet as those have never appealed to me or the rest of our party. Maybe it is because the pig trotters don't look like feet even though they are. The vegetarian platter was delicious, we had a vegetarian in our party. It had snow peas, 3 kinds of mushrooms, and crunchy water chestnut slices.
The restaurant was very crowded, I wore my mask to get back and forth from my table.
Have you ever been to Chinese dim sum?
Linking to Kathy's Food Wednesdays.
I have been having trouble leaving comments on some blogs lately, apologies if they have not gone through or if they went through several times.
This is DrumMajor in Kansas: not so sure I'd be brave enough to try many of those dishes, or maybe just a tiny bite. What a coward I am! Linda in Kansas
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DeleteSounds delicious, I've never had Dim Sum. Have a great day, hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteDim Sum is one of my favorites ..... yummy
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried these dishes, but I have seen plenty of dramas where they are the main meal..those chicken feet..but no thank you. And I understand your troubles with leaving comments too. It seems blogger is changing that window on many blogs.
ReplyDeleteLooks like an interesting dinner! I do love going to the China Buffet here, but haven't been since the pandemic. It was one of those places that is crowded. Of course, I like those crunch things like eggrolls and many of the vegetarian stir-fries.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a good 5 minutes are more to get my Covid booster scheduled and I can't get in until Friday the 13th. So I can understand your worries. Glad you could go to the dinner. It's interesting when I watch all these people eating Asian dinners on TV how they are so close and picking up food from this plate to that plate and putting some meat on this one's rice. Usually, we focus on our plate and no one else's.
ReplyDeletetotally unfamiliar to this dim sum dinner dear Christine ,looks really appealing though your words and images though :) how nice to have dinner with your aunt in town .glad that world is back to it's normal behavior .your comment box has huge comment area today and looks different ,i don't know if i can publish this one
ReplyDeleteDelicious!
ReplyDeleteI've never had Dim Sum and I believe most of those are too exotic for me. However, it's interesting the use of ALL of the animal for our consumption.
ReplyDeleteHow fun:)
ReplyDeleteNice Christine, I've never been there.
ReplyDeleteI've been to dim sum restaurants, but usually choose non-exotic items.
ReplyDeleteNunca comi nenhuma das iguarias mas me pareceu muito apetitoso.
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Sounds nice
ReplyDeletePig trotters ..omg...i've never heard of that. What a nice that must have been for you.
ReplyDeletesomething has changed with commenting...not sure mine went through.
ReplyDeleteI've never been to a dim sum restaurant in the States. I remember fondly the food in Taiwan when I lived there many many years ago. I especially loved the street food.
ReplyDeleteHi Christine, I am not familiar with this meal at all, so am happy you shared with us. It all sounds delicious, I would enjoy the veggie platter too as a side. thank you for linking with food wednesdays
ReplyDeleteYes, it seems the form for comments has changed. Weird.
ReplyDeleteRica comida me diste ganas. A mi paso pero ya le he cogido el ritmo. Ve si tienes comentarios en spam y cuando comentes en un blog con moderación en los comentarios. Ve si te sale una raya negra con mensaje. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteI've had a couple of blogs where the post didn't publish. I have returned to see they didn't go through. Very frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI've had Dim Sum in California, but that has been years ago. Never had any chicken feet, though. This looks like a special feast and treat. So glad your aunt enjoyed it and took you. I am glad you explained what everything was because the only things I was familiar with were the congee and the chow mein, which I was told was an Americanized dish. I've also had squid, which was fried. Thanks for sharing, Christine.
I never had this dish - sounds good! Yes, blogger runs wild again...
ReplyDeleteI've only had dim sum when someone made a dish or 2 of it at home, never out. My FIL used to love to make Chinese food of all kinds, but he's been gone a long time now, so I only have Chinese food when I go out. I don't know about chicken feet, but I guess it is a good way not to waste any parts when you slaughter the animal. Happy Wednesday. hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteI miss good dimsum! This is so yummy.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a post about dim sum. It will appear next week.
ReplyDeleteThe Dim Sum looks yummy. I went once in Chinatown in Montreal and loved it so much! I haven't had that cuisine in ages. Actually I'm so far away from civilization now, I will need to learn to cook what I want! ☺
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that blogger has changed it's comment format all together so maybe them working on it has caused all of these problems. Now for the dim sum, it looks so darn good. What a nice treat to have lunch out. Have a lovely day today.
ReplyDeleteI too have had trouble leaving comments but so far i have managed to do it as far as i know.. I have never had a Dim Sum Lunch nor from your description do i think i will partake in one..lol I've never felt the need to eat the feet of any animal but then neither do i eat catfish because to me they are bottom feeders and who wants to eat that? Well apparently alot of people do...lol my husband is one.. But now i want some Korean food! Bulgogi and KimChi.. MMmm Happy Food Wednesday! Hugs! deb
ReplyDeletePleased you enjoyed The Dim Sum.
ReplyDeleteBlogger does seem to be causing a few problems again, this seems to happen from time to time ...
All the best Jan
all of that food looks so good!
ReplyDeleteThe food looks so delicious! I'm having trouble commenting on most of the blogs I visit, including yours. I don't know what Google changed but it didn't turn out well! I can't even sign into my account when commenting. Rather, I have to manually type in my info!
ReplyDeleteIt is Very frustrating Martha
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