Dim Sum anyone??

[Alex2kMommy]

Oh my gosh, those photos are making me so hungry! I've only been to dim sum a couple of times, once with a Chinese friend, and once with a group of coworkers, one of whom loves dim sum. Most of the dishes are made with ingredients that a typical American palate would find pleasing, but there are the unusual items. I think you'll find lots to try. I agree you should try the char siu bao, it's very good. Although I've always seen it called hum bao? Not sure if there's a difference, but it sounds like the same thing. Yummy regardless.

 

[arminnie]

Just remember to ask what it is before you tell the server you want what they are bringing by.

The first time I had Dim Sum I was SO hungry on the way there - I thought I was about to starve to death. So the first thing they bring by - I say yes I'll take that. My friends said "You should ask what it is" so I did. When they said chicken feet I made them take it back.

So I'm still very, very hungry and anxiously awaiting the next thing. Well it was something with a little tiny egg on the top of it - I guess some kind of little bird egg. One of my friends says "Oh that looks like an abortion". Well at that point I lost it and could not eat one thing the rest of the meal.

But I have learned to like Dim Sum - but to be careful what you say yes to.

 

[XYSRUS]

Those sesame balls are DELICIOUS! My husband makes fun of me b/c I eat so many of them when we go for Dim Sum...remember most items are steamed so the meat and such have a different consistency. Oh...it's so good...you'll love it!

 

[yeartolate]

Those sesame balls are DELICIOUS! My husband makes fun of me b/c I eat so many of them when we go for Dim Sum...remember most items are steamed so the meat and such have a different consistency. Oh...it's so good...you'll love it!

I was tempted to try to make them. But I have not deep fried anything in a few decades!

 

[shortbun]

I always think of dim sum as little presents all wrapped up for me to open and eat!! Dim sum yum!!!

 

[Dismom+two]

I will certainly report back to you Sunday night about my Dim Sum experience! I will even try and take some pictures....

 

[Tantor]

Love dim sum. Those sesame balls are sooooo good.
We usually go with an asian friend of mine.
One thing that is a tradition is that the youngest at the table pours the tea. You could wow them with this info!!

 

[Dismom+two]

Love dim sum. Those sesame balls are sooooo good.
We usually go with an asian friend of mine.
One thing that is a tradition is that the youngest at the table pours the tea. You could wow them with this info!!

OHHHH nice thing to remember! Thanks for that little bit of info!

 

[minnieandmickeymouse]

Seeing those pictures made me hungry!! It's been over 11 years since I had Dim Sum! I would love to do it again some day.

 

[leafette]

Please dear Lord, do not let cantw8 see this. I am already thinking about what could happen

I think I just saw it in the McDonald's thread. My goodness!

 

[arminnie]

Dive in,
feet first

Try dim sum-style chicken feet

WASH chicken feet. Chop off toenails. Not a recipe for the chicken-hearted, so to speak.
But Elizabeth Ching wants to make dim-sum-style chicken feet at home. Specifically, she says, "I would like to know how to puff the chicken feet so they become very light and fluffy."

I can remember the first time I ate chicken feet, boiled in the kosher soup my grandmother made for Friday night dinner. They were spread out on a china plate, pale and bloated.

It never occurred to me not to partake. There was no surrounding taboo, no disgust at consuming bird feet. I just ate them, and they were good: soft, fatty, and salty, the perfect child's food...as much a game as they were a dinner.

First, I bit the center pad off the foot, which detached in a sinewy lump. That was the prime morsel, the fillet mignon of chicken feet. Then I nibbled the cartilage running up the leg.

The toes, which were the most fun, went last, one claw at time. As daintily as an eight-year-old might manage, I spat out the bones. By the time I went through this elaborate technique with each foot (usually two or three), dinner was over.

 

[beattyfamily]

So? Did you go? How was it? What did you eat? What did you like or dislike?

Do tell!