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Char Siu Baau (*** 1/2) This was NOT the steamed, fluffy white bun, but the glazed, shiny, sugary golden brown crusty bun. Just not enough of the good stuff - the Barbecued Pork filling!
Chinese Broccoli with Oyster Sauce (*****) Very fresh Chinese Broccoli, crunchy stalks with soft leaves. Very liberal with the Oyster Sauce... glad it wasn't straight-out-of-the-bottle Oyster Sauce... mild. Excellent.
Chow Mein Plate (** 1/2) A very plain-jaine plate of Chow Mein.... desperately trying to qualify as a Dim Sum entree. Just didn't work.
Crab Ball (*****) A baked Dim Sum in the midst of all the steamed Dim Sum. Baked Crab Ball covered by a crusty flaky Crab shell with a little pseudo Crab claw sticking from the top of the Dumpling. One of the best Dim Sum today.
Crispy Skin Roast Pork (*** 1/2) A little dry. Skin will remind you of the Mexican dish, Chicharrones.
Eggplant Shu Mai (****) Eggplant with attachment of Shrimp - huge pieces of Chinese Eggplant, shiny silvery Green, with a ball of Shrimp attached to the center of the Eggplant. Unique.
Fried Pot Stickers filled with Peas (****) Self-descriptive.
Sesame Seed Ball (****) Sticky Sesame Seeds covering a Sweet Bean sticky chewy interior. Light, and Chewy!
Shaomai (**** 1/2) Small Steamed Dumplings with Pork inside a thin yellowish, wheat flour wrapper. Ttopped off with Crab and Chinese Black Mushrooms. One of the Dim Sum entrees seemingly no restaurant can get wrong!
Shrimp Dumpling (**** 1/2) A delicate steamed Dumpling with chopped-up Shrimp filling and a thin rice flour almost clear skin.
Steamed Meatballs (****) Steamed Ground Beef shaped balls covered with a thin egg noodle skin.
Taro Cake (***) Taro cake is a dish made from the vegetable Taro. Each plate comes with three squares... it is semi-crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. In Bay Area Dim Sum establishments, there is usually some kind of meat embedded in or on top of the Taro Cake. Unfortunately, none in this particular version.
Pot of Hot Tea.
Atmosphere is upscale Hong Kong. A glass partition separates the upper level guests from those sitting at the exterior windowed walls. Would swear I remember a similar type of partition at a restaurant in Hong Kong... Seemingly, everyone who exited Cathay House was driving either a Lexus or a Mercedes.
My youngest son's and his fiancee's favorite Dim Sum establishment in Las Vegas.
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