Dim sum, you know you want some
Let’s be real - you can never really go wrong with dim sum. Dim sum is chinese lunch that is served to you like a bunch of side dishes. However you want to describe it, there’s one thing we can all agree on - it’s pretty damn good. If you never had dim sum, you are basically torturing yourself. Who does that?
So I finally had the urge to get my dim sum fix on. So where to go to do it right? Ocean harbor in Chinatown of course. It is overall the best place to get dim sum. There might be other restaurants that probably have better single dishes but overall, Ocean Harbor got the dim sum game on lock.
This ain’t the dim sum menu. This is for ordering special dishes that are more like entrees. Dim sum dishes come from the carts that the servers push around so you see the food that you’re ordering. Just try to control yourself when you see the food cart from heaven.
From left to right: spring roll, shu mai (pork and mushroom dumpling), seafood dumplings
Shrimp rice noodle roll. It may not seem like anything special but it’s the special soy sauce that you get with this that makes it good. It has a sweet flavor to it, unlike the plain jane soy sauce that’s available on the table already.
The red dish in the middle is chicken feet.
The dish on the upper right is some soy tofu dish. All my life, I thought it was a veggie dish. It wasn’t until this day that I found out it had meat. Shoot me.
Seafood pan fried noodles. Sang Kee makes a much better seafood pan fried noodle. But then again, Sang Kee doesn’t serve dim sum. What can I say? You win sum, you lose sum. Wow that was a terrible joke.
Spare ribs dim sum on left, shrimp dumplings up top. Big poppa seafood pan fried noodles on the right.
My mess. I never thought about it until my friends told me but I always have the messiest eating area. It’s not just at dim sum but anywhere. It ain’t like I’m clumsy and drop foods everywhere, but it’s like some unexplained phenomena that I end up having a gross eating area.
Her plate. As you can see, it’s nice and clean, and this is how it looks when she was done eating.
I don’t quite understand the check either but the servers mark the check whenever you order something. The chinese writing is for the seafood pan fried noodle, while the circles are for dim sum.
I swear I didn’t order that much. This always end up happening too - the dishes are pretty small so you start getting trigger happy with the dim sum lady. Next thing you know, the check has more circles than a bowl of spaghettios.
I go to dim sum often especially in the warmer weather it seems and Ocean Harbor will always be the spot. Feel free to say hi to me when you see me. I’m the guy with 20 dishes on the table eating like I haven’t eaten for months.
