Occupying the back seating area and upstairs of the excellent and long established Chinatown favourite, Kim Moon Bakery serves up some superb traditional dim sum treats for the discerning
Kim Moon has always been a favourite of mine for nostalgic reasons and because of the goodness of the traditional bakery items that can be had here. Indulge me for a few seconds while I journey back to fond childhood memories of the eggy-sweet odours wafting out the door on to Dundas, people on the Red Rocket stealing hungry glances at bags of bakery boxes tied with red string that this little Chinese boy carries on the street car click-clacks its way down the street... sigh...
While all the good bakery stuff can still be had here, Kim Moon also serves up excellent dim sum. The selection does not stray too far into contemporary takes on dim sum but they stick pretty close to traditional fare and are so much better for it. The mostly older Chinese clientele and relative lack of hipster foodies are testament to the type of food that can be had. Everything from the har gow, siew mai, char siew bao, curried cuttle fish and the like are done as if they can be no other way. And that's a good thing! Kim Moon has by far the best deep fried taro balls in all of Chinatown. Greaseless, delicate and crispy wisps of taro surround the smooth almost creamy mashed taro and ground meat to be found within.
At the risk of letting out Chinatown's best kept dim sum secret, Kim Moon deserves high praise for delivering high quality, old school food at reasonable prices. It's nice to know that fond memories of yore have not faded over the decades... sigh, sigh...