We decided to yum cha today as we were in the China Town area and with no real idea of which restaurant to go to we did that thing of peering through the windows to see which was busiest and had Chinese people in. So Dragon Boat it was. We were seated on the second floor and Steve had his first experience of the yum cha carts where ladies push carts around with different goodies.There were a few sticky moments where cart5 traffic jams took place but that's all part of the yum cha experience. It was interesting to see the mix of people especially the non Chinese crowds who seemed quite au fait with tripe and chicken feet! Even Steve can't stretch to that.
The tea was good. The different dim sum on the whole good. Biggest disappointment was the cheung fun which is like cannelloni I guess but Asian style so the "pasta" is really a thick white rice noodle type wrap and the stuffing was char sui and it was covered in sweet soy sauce. Good cheung fun is gelatinous and slippy but this was quite stodgy and dense. The har gow (prawn dumplings) were really good as were the ham suy gok (salty water corners kind of like a deep fried stuffed dumpling or an upmarket mini Findus crispy pancake which is Steve's description).
I'm not sure we will definitely return there. I think there is a lot of choice and competition so it wasn't so great that we would rule out other places.
The tea was good. The different dim sum on the whole good. Biggest disappointment was the cheung fun which is like cannelloni I guess but Asian style so the "pasta" is really a thick white rice noodle type wrap and the stuffing was char sui and it was covered in sweet soy sauce. Good cheung fun is gelatinous and slippy but this was quite stodgy and dense. The har gow (prawn dumplings) were really good as were the ham suy gok (salty water corners kind of like a deep fried stuffed dumpling or an upmarket mini Findus crispy pancake which is Steve's description).
I'm not sure we will definitely return there. I think there is a lot of choice and competition so it wasn't so great that we would rule out other places.
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