For Xiu’s birthday, we gathered in Flushing for some Dim Sum at Ocean Jewel Ocean Jewel. The dishes here were a little hit or miss for me, my main complaint being that some dishes were served at room temperature or cooler.
We were a party of 12 so we got pics of some, missed others, and I didn’t eat every dish. I can only point out a few of my favorites and a few of my not-so-favorites. I loved the Roast Pork Pastries (triangular). These were served warm, flaky, and plumply stuffed with sweet and savory meat. I wasn’t impressed with their shrimp or beef wrapped in rice noodles, mainly because the noodles didn’t have that bounce these are known for. Surprisingly, a dish of rice noodle chunks with pork ribs on top did have that lovely bounce, playful and flavorful.
We had more than described here (chicken feet, egg tarts, taro cake, roast pork buns baked and fried, shu mai, more I can’t remember) but we left without being completely full and headed across the street to Flushing Mall for a few more bites. I shared Taiwanese Oyster Noodle Soup and Taiwanese Pork and Fish Paste with Bean Thread Noodle Soup with a few friends and filled up nicely.
restaurants who serve tepid lukewrm food should be burnt
You people are torturing me. DIM SUM, GIVE IT TO ME. I don’t even care if it’s bad.
Knife, I agree, but in a less violent way, haha
Soopling, are there any decent Chinese places over there?
@Jessica: I ordered a Chinese takeaway where the side dish was too satly. I called them back and made them replace it. Restaurants charge quite a bit after all.
Most good Chinese restaurants have a nice selection. Interestingly, momos, which are Tibetian didm sums/ dumplings came to India first, especially to Delhi and Calcutta. possibly because of the refuggees
@Soopling: Head to india next time you want to Dim Sums
sometimes I have to force myself not to say anything at restaurants if things go to faulter…it seems like it’s always my luck to have something arrive with a knot of hair in it or gobs of food attached to the silverware. Yes, lukewarm would have bothered me, I don’t speak Mandarin or otherwise so service might be iffy when I go. When at Korean restaurants, I have to force myself to speak Korean in order to get better service and all the special banchan they save in the back for the real Koreans. *sigh*
@taste memory: I hate it when there is hair in my food. I just can’t eat it. You can return it in a restaurant. But what if its a take away and you see it at home? I am a Bengali and from West bengal in india. I stay at Bombay which is at the other end of India. A number of resturant staff AND flower sellers at Bombay are Bengali. I often break into Bengali and have occassionally got discounts or preference in restaurant waiting queues
Taste Memory, I speak Mandarin but at dim sum places, they’re usually Cantonese. They can understand me but sometimes choose not to. I have heard I need to go with Korean friends to get the good stuff at Korean restaurants. =(
Knife, it’s funny how people like someone just cause they’re from the same place, huh?