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| - Dim Sum King is located in Chinatown. Street parking is available but may be difficult to find. The restaurant itself is located on the third floor of a shopping center; just follow the signs and keep going up those stairs, then go through the double doors; they may not look like a restaurant entrance but the restaurant is behind those doors.
Dim Sum King is a more traditional dim sum restaurant, with carts rolling across the floor of the restaurant offering various dishes to the patrons rather than the patrons sitting down and ordering from a checklist. Having only been to the latter (and poor ones at that) in the past few years, the carts threw me off a loop for a moment, but thankfully past experience took over, and I was able to enjoy myself. It was a good thing, because the food here was really good. The dumplings felt fresh instead of reheated from frozen, and the turnip cake was spot on. On the flip side, we weren't automatically given any condiments to sprinkle over our dishes.
Dim Sum King is a busy place. The entire time we were there, most of the tables were full and buzzing. It was fast paced most of the time but not consistently so; I noticed that sometimes three or four carts would be passing by our table within seconds of each other. Other times, many minutes would pass before any cart would appear. I also noticed that many of the dishes I had enjoyed at the dim sum places I had been taken to as guest of others fluent in Chinese did not appear near us during our time at Dim Sum King. On the other hand, the same carts/dishes would reappear often. I don't know if this might be because we weren't there long enough for those other dishes to show up, and/or because I didn't know enough Mandarin to ask the servers to fetch me those other carts/dishes.
I would like to come again, and maybe
on the heavy/oily side. It is traditionally served with Chinese hot tea because the hot tea serves as a palate cleanser and helps the system digest.
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