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| - Chinese New Year is a time to celebrate and usher in prosperity for the rest of the year. That being said, a couple of my friends and I decided to check out Wing Lei for their biannual dim sum brunch. If you have never been then it should be on your list of special occasions to try. The restaurant does this special one between Christmas to western New Year and then once again for the eastern New Year.
The spread is impressive even by Wynn standards. Once sat, tea service is offered and the dim sum carts are rolled out. All the usual favorites are on there; black bean spareribs, chicken feet, har gow, sui mai, char sui bao, soup dumplings, and more. The soup dumplings and the shrimp balls with soup in them were some definite highlights. Besides the usual suspects, they had more high end items like sharks fin dumplings as well.
Once past the small plates, everything came in abundance. It was like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the main dining room. As far as the eye could see, an endless feast of roasted duck, halved lobster, king crab claws, prawns, sushi, handmade noodles, and other Asian favorites. Think you can finish a meal without dessert? Forget about it. If the carts did not get to you with the Chinese desserts than a walk through the foyer with have you up to your eyes in fusion items.
At the end of my meal, I needed a bell hop to roll me out. For $65 a piece, it was an experience to be had at least once.
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