Jul
09
Saturday Dim Sum 9:45 am
Last Saturday I had a strange post-hangover craving for Dim Sum, headed to Chinatown to my favorite restaurant (don’t know what it’s called because I just know where it is without really looking at the awning)…I rarely drink now so I get hungover and drunk very easily! The older I get the less I want to drink. I remember in college I drank almost everyday without getting sick. How things have changed.
One of my favorites, sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf.
Each pocket is filled with sticky rice, meat, vegetables, and a chinese sausage. Sometimes they use seafood. It’s just very savory and salty..
I always request a super spicy hot sauce. Chopped green peppers (the spiciest kind) and soy sauce. It is painful to eat but I am addicted to the burn.
Shrimp Dumplings
Another variety of shrimp dumplings, this one with snow pea leaves. I love the starchy translucent skin of these dumplings.
The wrapper is made of glutinous starchy flour, creates a transparent skin and a very chewy texture.
Fried tofu.
Fried sesame balls, a typical dim sum dessert.
Fried sesami balls, part of dessert. The outer shell is covered in sesame seeds, the middle layer is made of rice flour, when cooked it makes for a very sticky, chewy texture, the innermost part is filled usually with red bean paste or something sweet. Eating these is supposed to make your ‘luck expand’.
This fried dish below was both sweet and savory. The texture on the outside was lacy, but also very crunchy.
I love dim sum so much!! The last fried taro dish you posted is one of my faaaavorites.
my mouth watered!!!
You made dim sims look super delicious and now my craving has just kicked in! haha might visit our local this Sunday!
i love dimsum!
delicious!!! craving dim sum! do you like the mashed, fried taro with hoisin sauce?
keep up the amazing work! so inspiring.
ok now my stomach is growling.
About hangovers, just drink a glass of water before you go to sleep and another one when you wake up. Most hangovers are caused by dehydration. This trick works great for me. I haven’t have a hangover since starting this regimen.
@ Karl good tip, I always forget because I want to get to bed right away, then I wake up with cotton throat. Awful.
This just KILLED me and now my belly is aching for dim sum. Damn you work! But tomorrow for sure!
Wow, makes me hungry now, i love the one where it looks lacy outside, i think it’s taro inside with meat and stuff one of my favourites! You should try some of the puddings!
oh I LOVE dim sum. I have been living in LA long enough now that I should have found a place, but I never seem to think of it, or am doing something else on the weekend. Now that I’m living even closer to Chinatown, I really need to find a stellar place to hit up now and then. Thanks for your photos and the reminder!
@STYLEFYLES you’re welcome!
This looks so delicious. I am also addicted to the burn of too-hot food. It’s terrible. I know I’m killing my tastebuds gradually, but I can’t stop. I get much worse hangovers now in my mid 20s than I did ever before. Time to grow up!
I love your ability to take beautiful photos even outside your studio in a hectic restaurant atmosphere!
xo
Ah, I need to go for dim sum asap. It’s been awhile for me!! I had to check my own blog posts to see exactly when was the last time… and it was Nov ’09 LOL.
You’re crazy! You really go wild with those tiny little peppers. I like them but it hurts my stomach so bad when I use too much of them. And I don’t eat them… I’m not as brave as you are!!
please give us the adress, or at least directions!
pleeeeasssseeee!!
It is on Elizabeth street between Canal and Bayard…? Yea.. It has a maroon awning and a fish tank on the store front.
OOohhh…. I love the fired sesame balls and the fried taro (never know what they’re called). My absolute favourite dim sum dish which is mostly what I eat since I don’t particularly like prawns….
I’m craving dim sum now….
That last dish is made out of yam
The filling is braised pork. I love dim sum but I don’t eat pork so I stick to the seafood stuff. I love this dish though, whenever I find a chicken version, I jump on it.
In Malaysia, we usually have the steamed dim sums with the crispy chilli oil you featured before from the Asian grocer.
Oh! Looks so yummy…
Luckily, there are a lot of Chinese restaurant and I can find them easily…But I don’t know are them as good taste as this one..?
Delicious!! Looks like a good cure for the hangover!
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ohh this looks so good!!
OMG it looks so good…
Looks yummy!
Oh, my. It all looks absolutely DELECTABLE.
the filling in the sesame balls doesn’t look like it’s green bean paste (usually the case for those sold in my country); they look like lotus seed paste but it’s just my guess cos of its colour (green bean paste is paler). you can find mooncakes with this filling too.
i love my chili padi too. i’d think your tongue’s seasoned if you accompany each item with 2 slices!
@++F+ yea I really have to stop though I think its bad for you to eat spicy foods all the time.
I am glad to see that you found “luxe” and beauty in inexpensive, accessible places, so kudos to you for this post!
gotta love the seed sesame balls, I eat it everyday when I was a kid ! this post make me drools, haha.
Shrimp dumplings are some of my favorites. I’m also addicted to chopped green chillis in fish sauce… Makes even terrible Thai food taste good.
You’ve just made me decide on going for dim sum again this Sunday! Thanks for the mouth-watering photos.
Oooh, joong! I love it! Yum.
i think this place looks like jing fong? they have the waiters and waitresses go around with the pushcarts, and they stamp your card with smiley faces for everything you order. i study in new york and it’s one of the places i go to when the asian in me needs to be revived.
i’ve been reading your blog for ages and this is the first time i’m commenting because i actually have something to add other than a compliment on how amazing you are! you should definitely make a trip to asia sometime… i would love to see a world i’m familiar with filtered through your mind.