Why my Dad LOVES Dim Sum

If you meet my Dad and you really get to know him you will soon find out that he is, well, not obsessed, with Dim-Sum, but loves it and especially loves to eat it. When we lived at our house in California full time we used to go to Dim-Sum almost every Sunday. We went 2 times since we have been back and he has loved every moment of Dim-Sum. 

Now if you have not had Dim-Sum before, it is a traditional Chinese food.When you go in you are going to usually see a bunch of steamer cart with tons of yummy goodies which are covered up by bamboo pots. The ladies or some times men ask you if you want is in their cart or tray. Sometimes they say the Chinese word for the food and some times they just say all the ingredients as the name. If one of the many steamer carts passes by they will ask you if you want Har Gow which is a bunch of shrimp in a little bit of dough, they will also probably ask do you want Shumai. Shumai is like the King of Dim-Sum if there was a Dim-Sum chain Shumai would be at the top. Shumai consists of shrimp, pork and some dough it is amazing. Another great Dim-Sum dish is Rice noodle roll it is a bunch of ground beef and then on top the beef is a bunch of rice noodle and they pour something a lot like soy sauce all over it. One of my favorite Dim-Sum dishes is Xiaolongbao or in English it is translated soup dumpling. They put juicy meat in to the dumpling and then a little chunk of frozen chicken broth and then they steam the dumpling. What happens is the frozen piece of broth melts and the beef juice go's into the broth and everything is just great. But word of caution you can burn your mouth if you eat it right away.

Now if you go and have Dim-Sum, keep in mind that the Chinese uses as much of the duck or the cow as they can. For example at Dim-Sum when I was just a wee gal (7 yrs) my Dad gave me some very strange looking meat he told me to it and then he would tell me what it was. After I had eaten it he told me what it was. What I had just put in my mouth and liked and would soon be digesting was Duck tongue. Then there was yet another time when a lady with a steam cart came by and she said to my Dad tripe? My Dad did the same thing he did with the duck tongue. I tried the tripe with lots of soy sauce and described it as a gummy bear with soy sauce after I said that my Dad told me that tripe is cows stomach. 

Why I think my Dad loves Dim-Sum is because 1 minute you don't have any food on your table than the next minute you have more food that you can eat! 

Chicken feet 

Congi

Foot balls 

crunchy thing