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| - TL;DR: Sui mai does not a dim sum restaurant make.
Lured in my the words "dim sum" on the exterior building, I knew I was in trouble when I walked in to the cafeteria-style setup. I looked at the menu, and the only thing in the dim sum category is sui mai (four types). The sides/apps section included a Pacific Shrimp Ball.
Majority of offerings are premade, sitting-under-a-heat-lamp, exposed-to-the-air offerings you can find at any Chinese fast-food joint. They claim to use higher-quality, organic ingredients but if you're going to serve it this way, it doesn't matter. At 7PM there were no customers, so the freshness of the food was questionable.
The items I sampled were average if not slightly below. Sui mai were huge, golf-ball-sized items, which helped to justify the ~$1.30 charge per piece. Shrimp items were fresh, juicy, and nicely shrimpy. Pork and chicken(?) sui mai did not stand out. I'm not fully convinced these aren't out of a freezer and just freshly prepared.
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