DIM SUM: WHAT CHINESE PEOPLE DO ON XMAS
It's starting to become a Xmas tradition for us to go to dim sum on Xmas morning- no matter where we are. Last year it was dim sum at the Pearl. This year, it was dim sum with my extended family in Monterey Park. I guess it's because there are so few places that are actually open and have good food, so people in the know flock to the open dim sum restaurants.
When I was a kid, I actually hated going to the dim sum restaurants in Monterey Park. Back then, there weren't any dim sum restaurants on the westside where we lived, so my parents would wake us up super early on Sunday (the only day we actually had the option to sleep in since we had Chinese school on Saturdays) and would haul our asses over to Monterey Park, which is East of LA. Ummm, maybe this is where you start seeing where I get my obsessiveness for food.
One place we often visited was NBC Seafood, which is where we headed on Xmas morning. When we arrived, we found out that NBC was under construction. It was still open and serving food, but there was very little parking, and a whole lot of people were trying to get in. We had 15 people, so we ended up splitting up into 2 tables. This place was sooooooooo busy. They were turning tables like crazy and they weren't very nice about it. But at least we got our fill or yummy dim sum dishes like:
Baked pork buns, chicken buns and fried sesame mochi
It's starting to become a Xmas tradition for us to go to dim sum on Xmas morning- no matter where we are. Last year it was dim sum at the Pearl. This year, it was dim sum with my extended family in Monterey Park. I guess it's because there are so few places that are actually open and have good food, so people in the know flock to the open dim sum restaurants.
When I was a kid, I actually hated going to the dim sum restaurants in Monterey Park. Back then, there weren't any dim sum restaurants on the westside where we lived, so my parents would wake us up super early on Sunday (the only day we actually had the option to sleep in since we had Chinese school on Saturdays) and would haul our asses over to Monterey Park, which is East of LA. Ummm, maybe this is where you start seeing where I get my obsessiveness for food.
One place we often visited was NBC Seafood, which is where we headed on Xmas morning. When we arrived, we found out that NBC was under construction. It was still open and serving food, but there was very little parking, and a whole lot of people were trying to get in. We had 15 people, so we ended up splitting up into 2 tables. This place was sooooooooo busy. They were turning tables like crazy and they weren't very nice about it. But at least we got our fill or yummy dim sum dishes like:
Baked pork buns, chicken buns and fried sesame mochi
Spare ribs and flat rice noodles stuffed with shrimp or fried dough
This strange concoction of shrimp balls and corn- it was allright.
Panfried flat noodles with dried shrimp and green onions served with peanut sauce. The noodles themselves were rather tasteless, so you had to add the sauce to give it flavor.
We spent over two hours there, and by the time we finished and left, there were even more people waiting to get it. I guess it is worth arriving early after all. But we had a great meal and I certainly look foward to getting more dim sum in LA next Xmas.
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