dim sum!

[karizma]

>> whats your favorite dim sum =)...is it just me or do some of those cart ladies want to run you over =/...and some kinda walk past you without looking at you muttering the dishes they have and not even stopping...PSHHH... =P...

faves: [sorry for the bad spellings]

- har gow
- sieu mai
- cheung fun
- lo mai gai
- phung jao <-- chicken feet [i think?]
- lo bac go
- ham sui goc


>> umm...i think thats it? theres probably more i just cant remember =P...

[DaBestSpooner]

ngow bok yip
ngow jop
dan tat
satay ngow yuk
deep fried bacon\shrimp thingie

[angel nympho]

chicken... feet...? :gross:




are dumplings dim sum? those are yummy...

[deez nuts]

lo mi fun (sticky rice)
xia jio (shrimp dumplings)
ya hung (duck blood)
xian zhu jiun (tofu wraps)
nu rao tong fun (beef stuffed long noodles)
chasaubao
and that chitlin stuff forgot what it's called.


and jiu hwa tsa is the tea to go with!

Sorry for shitty pinyin and mandarin version of the dishes. My cantonese suxors. :ph34r:

[kimpossible]

Most of what karizma listed, though I gotta guess on a couple cuz it's CANTONESE(!)... but if she didn't list it

*luo buo gow
*yu to cakes
*the crunchy things wrapped in tofu skins
*the soft tofu in the sweet ginger sauce 'cuz it totally tops off my tummy after all the solid stuff

But *no* chicken feet. No pheonix claws for me. I'll cook 'em but I won't eat them.

[karizma]

>> no chicken feet? where you daring-ness? hahaha..

ok ok english translation:

- har gow: shrimp dumplings
- sieu mai: um...beef and shrimp dumplings?
- cheung fun: like beef or shrimp wrapped in a big fat noodle.
- lo mai gai: rice with chicken wrapped in leaves
- lo bac go: those fried cakes of turnip with the lil shrimp in em
- ham sui goc: umm...fried thing with beef n stuff inside haha...
- oh and ngow lam: beef stomache? i denno which part it is haha...

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by karizma@Nov 6 2002, 08:04 PM
>> no chicken feet? where you daring-ness? hahaha..

ok ok english translation:

- har gow: shrimp dumplings
- sieu mai: um...beef and shrimp dumplings?
- cheung fun: like beef or shrimp wrapped in a big fat noodle.
- lo mai gai: rice with chicken wrapped in leaves
- lo bac go: those fried cakes of turnip with the lil shrimp in em
- ham sui goc: umm...fried thing with beef n stuff inside haha...
- oh and ngow lam: beef stomache? i denno which part it is haha...
wow i just repeated what u said. thanks for making me type all that and going thru the trouble of translating it from cantonese (poor attempt to recall the dish's cantonese name) then to mandarin then to english.

[Chris]

ngaw bak yip
lo mai fan
har gow
siu mai
nan wong bao
har choung
pai gwup (spareribs.)

[angel nympho]

Kimchee?

[amietron]

Originally posted by angel nympho@Nov 6 2002, 05:35 PM
Kimchee?
lol. uhh, sushi? =)
yo, i'm gonna start a sushi thread.

i :luv: dim sum, though. Mmmmmmm.

[not-a-twinkie?]

Originally posted by DaBestSpooner@Nov 6 2002, 04:30 PM
ngow bok yip
ngow jop
dan tat
satay ngow yuk
deep fried bacon\shrimp thingie
I w/ you there on the dan tat's.
yummy.

[ChinaLama]

ok im gonna be a rebel and say dim sum (yin cha) SUCKS! I mean they give you these TINY dishes and if you wanna fill up on that, the $$ piles up. So I'd rather just do normal dishes than dim sum. I drink enough tea as it is anyway.

But anyway...back on topic, i actually kinda like it all. :) hell, i like all food. But i think my fave is like shrimp dumplings or something. Sigh...it's just a pretty big ripoff tho. :(

[BeTheReds]

Sorry I don't know what the hell dim sum is.. but I like me some chasiubao.

[ChinaLama]

dim sum is when people go to restaurants, and waittresses push by carts w/ small food dishes. and if you see something you like, you order it. in mandarin, it's yin cha, or "drink tea."

[BeTheReds]

No, I mean I know what it is, but I don't know any of the names of the food.

[himura-dono]

i'm not about to list the chinese names and risk a beatdown, but karizma, pheonix claws are teh SHIT! they be the yummiest.

and sarah, why you no likin the chick feet? you stick it in ur mouth, eat the skin off, and spit out the toe bones and ankle foot bone thingy. that's it. it's HELLA good.

[blue__blood]

heh, most of my favourites have been covered

ha gao (shrimp dumpling)
ou chap (beef "varities")
ou pat yip (beef stomache I guess)
ja leurn (yau till wrapped in churn fun)
dan tak (egg tarts)
ju houng (pig's blood)
jun jeu gai (pearl chicken.. those mini rice wraps in lily leaves)
Chinese style cha siu bao (ie: white bun not western honey-painted type)

Fried pigeon is always good if they have them....

I used to like foung jau (pheonix claws?) when I was a kid but after I found out what they were, I can't eat them anymore... trauma I guess :P

[wylin]

"you win some and u loose sum dim sum" romeo must die

[Uncle Tat]

Originally posted by ChinaLama@Nov 6 2002, 10:03 PM
dim sum is when people go to restaurants, and waittresses push by carts w/ small food dishes. and if you see something you like, you order it. in mandarin, it's yin cha, or "drink tea."
The food is GOOD just expensive. The whole point is the social atmosphere and chatting with your friends while having appetizers.

I think people get annoyed though when you stay too long...especially the white people who order like 1 dish of dim sum per person and then stay there bs'ing all day with their abc friends.

[bigwong235]

most everyone listed the stuff i like... i love chicken feet!

ugghhh... can't do the duck's blood though. it's just too disconcerting to know that you're EATING blood! my dad bet me 5 bucks i couldn't eat one cube when i was little. got it about halfway down... then it came halfway up. :gross:

[himura-dono]

i like the stemed pork blood rice cakes. the fried one's i've had are from this crappy restaurant in san jo, and i think i'll be hesitant to ever try em again.

[SunWuKong]

i remember in HK i had an indian colleague (from india) and he was technically muslim but he loved beef balls when we went to yum cha. i would always laugh at him about that.

hahhah one time my cousin was in a really shitty mood and her boyfriend said to her "don't worry about it baby, i'll buy you a dan tat (egg tart)." hahhah i thought that was slick. but she punched him for it. :P

[jimbo]

Not forgetting the deep fried custard buns.

Has anybody tried the thai style chickens feet, kindof similar to fung jao but they're eaten cold.

[kwalan]

around LA, especially San Gabriel, Alhambra, Arcadia, and Monterey Park areas... you gotta get to the dimsum places at around 10am to avoid waiting in line... It's not surprising that by 11am, there are hoards of people waiting outside... I rarely wake up early enough on weekends when I'm back home to go eat dimsum with my folks, but it's good stuff.

Any favorites from your area?

I can think of...

Ocean City (buck hoy yiu chune)
NBC
New Capital (theres like 3)

[blue__blood]

mmm, around here, after one is considered "ha ng cha" so dishes are cheaper and that's when people actually start eating stuff. Before that, you see peeps sitting at their tables just drinking tea.

And of course, getting a table before and after one are two different worlds..

[LT25]

I like the short necks (seafood in a tiny shell w/ this awesome black sauce). And seeing the kids from work there with their families. Going without someone who knows what everything is is funny, because I just order what I've eat before... I know what it looks like :blush:

[SunWuKong]

*bump*

[himura-dono]

who...thread resurrection

[kasia]

Originally posted by bigwong235@Nov 6 2002, 09:49 PM
most everyone listed the stuff i like... i love chicken feet!

ugghhh... can't do the duck's blood though. it's just too disconcerting to know that you're EATING blood! my dad bet me 5 bucks i couldn't eat one cube when i was little. got it about halfway down... then it came halfway up. :gross:
wait...i thought it was *pig's* blood.

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by kasia@Jan 8 2003, 05:58 PM
Originally posted by bigwong235@Nov 6 2002, 09:49 PM
most everyone listed the stuff i like... i love chicken feet!

ugghhh... can't do the duck's blood though. it's just too disconcerting to know that you're EATING blood! my dad bet me 5 bucks i couldn't eat one cube when i was little. got it about halfway down... then it came halfway up. :gross:
wait...i thought it was *pig's* blood.
they serve both at the places I go to. I like "ya hong" better out of the two.

[kasia]

Originally posted by Chasiubao_Boy@Jan 8 2003, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by kasia@Jan 8 2003, 05:58 PM
Originally posted by bigwong235@Nov 6 2002, 09:49 PM
most everyone listed the stuff i like... i love chicken feet!

ugghhh... can't do the duck's blood though. it's just too disconcerting to know that you're EATING blood! my dad bet me 5 bucks i couldn't eat one cube when i was little. got it about halfway down... then it came halfway up. :gross:
wait...i thought it was *pig's* blood.
they serve both at the places I go to. I like "ya hong" better out of the two.
ew. either way it's coagulated blood.

...what's it taste like?

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by kasia@Jan 8 2003, 06:06 PM
Originally posted by Chasiubao_Boy@Jan 8 2003, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by kasia@Jan 8 2003, 05:58 PM
Originally posted by bigwong235@Nov 6 2002, 09:49 PM
most everyone listed the stuff i like... i love chicken feet!

ugghhh... can't do the duck's blood though. it's just too disconcerting to know that you're EATING blood! my dad bet me 5 bucks i couldn't eat one cube when i was little. got it about halfway down... then it came halfway up. :gross:
wait...i thought it was *pig's* blood.
they serve both at the places I go to. I like "ya hong" better out of the two.
ew. either way it's coagulated blood.

...what's it taste like?
The texture is kinda like hard tofu. The taste is hard to describe...they normally lightly fry it up with some jiao tsai.

It's one of my favorite dishes that my mom makes, I love the stuff.

The only catch is.............this is gonna sound gross:


If you eat a lot of it....your stool will be darker than normal.

[applehead]

Originally posted by Chasiubao_Boy@Jan 8 2003, 03:19 PM
If you eat a lot of it....your stool will be darker than normal.
EEEEEEEEEEEEW

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by applehead@Jan 8 2003, 06:22 PM
EEEEEEEEEEEEW
well, same thing with strawberries

[applehead]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Jan 8 2003, 03:23 PM
well, same thing with strawberries
really????

[lethal]

Originally posted by applehead@Jan 8 2003, 06:24 PM
really????
Only if you eat a whole hell of a lot.

And its not like darker stools feel different leaving your body... :ph34r: (I can't believe i just said that)

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by lethalweapon@Jan 8 2003, 06:29 PM
Only if you eat a whole hell of a lot.

And its not like darker stools feel different leaving your body... :ph34r: (I can't believe i just said that)
Heheh yeah.

Actually I took a couple of my co-workers for dim sum and we had a lot of it. But I neglected to tell them the side effect. They kinda wigged out thinking something was wrong with them.

It's just the iron from the duck blood that causes it when you consume it in mass quantites, i think.

It also happens when you take pepto-bismol.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

I was never a big fan of Dim Sum because it's not the type of food that fills me up (but everyone tells me it's for the get-together experience, not really the food) but anyways, I'm used to the gigantic keep-your-own-plate rip-off-gigantic-chunks-of-meat type of lunch and dinner thingies and I also am not keen on eating out with many people i.e. like a dog I like to feast on my prey in private. If u wanna hang out, that's cool, but we don't hafta go to a restaurant or dim sum place to do it.

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by FrozenPizza@Jan 8 2003, 06:40 PM
I was never a big fan of Dim Sum because it's not the type of food that fills me up (but everyone tells me it's for the get-together experience, not really the food) but anyways, I'm used to the gigantic keep-your-own-plate rip-off-gigantic-chunks-of-meat type of lunch and dinner thingies and I also am not keen on eating out with many people i.e. like a dog I like to feast on my prey in private. If u wanna hang out, that's cool, but we don't hafta go to a restaurant or dim sum place to do it.
Yeah I feel you on that one. It's a nice to chill...but when you wanna get down and dirty and eat...then dim sum is a drag. I remember I was starving one time since I just got out of the gym....I literally had 2 of everything that passed me by..I snagged whatever came by. I had like 14 dishes around me for myself hahah.

My friends were kinda pissed...but a man's gotta eat.

Dim sum don't fill me up...I usually go and order a noodle dish to accompany my dim sum.

[himura-dono]

coagulated animal blood is yummy...

*does got blood commercial while wolfing down steamed rice cakes of animal blood*

[applehead]

oh god. i'm gonna vomit.

[iris]

Most of the dished I like have already been mentioned but I'm with Angel and Apple on the pigs/chicken's feet and blood. It's just not for me. The blood feels weird in my mouth, first kind of hard, then melts into squish...not very pleasant. And the feet always make this weird "schucking" sound when you remove the bones and then the skin flops around all boneless. I can't get the image out of my mind.

Some not mentioned: I love radish cakes and leek dumplings. I also like the xiao long baos but I wouldn't get them at dim sum. I'd go to a place that specializes in them. In nyc, I used to go to the place above Popeye's down in Chinatown, but it was closed down by the health inspectors. :lol:

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by applehead@Jan 8 2003, 09:09 PM
oh god. i'm gonna vomit.
There there going cold turkey on the binge drinking is hard on the beginning I know.

[applehead]

Originally posted by iris@Jan 9 2003, 05:32 AM
And the feet always make this weird "schucking" sound when you remove the bones and then the skin flops around all boneless. I can't get the image out of my mind.


thanks iris. now i can't either.

[lethal]

I love to end a dim sum meal with a nice mango pudding.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by iris@Jan 9 2003, 08:32 AM
I also like the xiao long baos but I wouldn't get them at dim sum. I'd go to a place that specializes in them.
yeah xiao long baos are much better at shanghainese restaurants.
if the juice doesn't squirt out when you bite into one then it's not a good xiao long bao!

[teaz0r]

i totally love dim sum.
i go there. and start spewing in 3 different chinese dialects and don't realize it.
then the waiter leaves me to bring either the dimsum cart or a picture menu so i can pick and choose. i can however. very effectively say siu mai.

but then i go "siu mai with the gao not that pork...a yellow har gao"
:blink:

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by pipSy@Jan 9 2003, 02:45 PM
i totally love dim sum.
i go there. and start spewing in 3 different chinese dialects and don't realize it.
then the waiter leaves me to bring either the dimsum cart or a picture menu so i can pick and choose. i can however. very effectively say siu mai.

but then i go "siu mai with the gao not that pork...a yellow har gao"
:blink:
hey if we ever go have dim sum together would you order food in singlish for me to hear???
and i want to hear your accented cantonese too

[teaz0r]

i'll order it however you want me too.
/on my knees/

...la

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by pipSy@Jan 9 2003, 03:04 PM
i'll order it however you want me too.
/on my knees/

...la
:D :D :D

you know what i like

chun rak pip

*joob*

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Originally posted by lethalweapon@Jan 9 2003, 02:25 PM
I love to end a dim sum meal with a nice mango pudding.
Mango pudding (mong gwo bo deen?), custard tarts (dan tat?), and custard buns (nai wong bao?) are the best parts about dim sum as far as I'm concerned. It's the dessert stuff that turns me on since the main courses are kinda sorta small ^^

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by FrozenPizza@Jan 9 2003, 03:36 PM
Mango pudding (mong gwo bo deen?), custard tarts (dan tat?), and custard buns (nai wong bao?) are the best parts about dim sum as far as I'm concerned. It's the dessert stuff that turns me on since the main courses are kinda sorta small ^^
man... you had to mention dan tat... i used to walk past a deli everyday in HK and i'd always get a dan tat. $2 HKD baby! that's like a quarter USD.

[lethal]

I miss the take out dim sum places in SF. I'd go for lunch...the financial district was a mere 4 blocks from Chinatown. Grab some dim sum (3 pieces for $1!!) and sit out in the park and eat.

Plus chasuibaos and dan tats for 50 cents!

It wasn't the best quality stuff, but it still was pretty damn good and convenient.