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| - It's a great little Chinese resto just off the beaten path that specializes in Dim Sum. I've heard great things about it over the year they've been open, but never had the chance until recently.
Just like any Dim Sum place, they have all of the traditional foods, at reasonable downtown chinatown pricing, but also have special prices during the off hours as well. Popular among diners in town, they also cook the food fresh to order as opposed to a mass prep which tends to lead to some dishes sitting around for ages. The Haw Gow is nice and shrimp meaty, with a good texture to the tapioca flour skin, and this is the measure of a dim sum resto the world over... They go it right, and the rest are just as tasty and impressive. found the taro fired pancakes a little too greasy, but still quite yummy. My only complaint is that they don't seem to be able to season the rice porridges very well, as I found the century egg and pork one I ate, and the fish one my gal had were pretty bland in taste, and needed quite a jolt of salt to get it to some semblance of taste.
MEnus are in english and chinese, but it's nice to see that there wasn't a secret chinese menu as a lot of places in Chinatown sometimes do to offer dishes that might seem too alien for non-Chinese. Every thing is there for everyone to trym and treats no one like some fearful tourist.
So overall, it rates a 4 and then some. Decent price, nice and hot, good portions and so on, it's a great addition to the Dim Sum scene. It's a tiny place btw, so finding it full during a Sat or Sun is really not all that hard.
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