Give Me Some Dim Sum!!

Dim Sum is, without a doubt, the highlight of our month. Side story: we've had to regulate our consumption of dim sum by limiting our visits per month, or else we'd be big as houses and dirt poor. I'd be there every weekend, shoving my face with turnip cake and dumplings.  

Back to weekend feasting: this weekend, we were able to fulfill our dim sum craving!  And although we've been eating dim sum together for almost 5 years, we've never taken pictures before. This is probably because I am way too embarassed to do so. I fear that I, who am already judged (as evidenced by the forks I am always given after being seated), will only be more judged and ridiculed for taking pictures. I am not sure my fragile ego could handle it (evidence: see picture below with weird smile).  In any case, we were finally brave enough to take some pictures this weekend, so that we could blog about our awesome dim sum habits. Go team! 

Above is a picture of what we typically order from the steam cart. The steam cart is the best cart of all the dim sum carts. We get (from left to right): lo mai gai (sticky rice stuffed with goodies that can vary- at Silver Fountain, you'll get dried shrimp, chinese sausage, sliced pork/beef, battered chicken, mushroom- all good stuff), steamed pork ribs (with black beans and spicy peppers), siu mai (shrimp and pork dumplin in egg wrapper), har gao (shrimp dumpling in rice wrapper). In my humble opinion, the har gau and the sticky rice are the best- as you can see from my plate in the back. I apparently don't know what it means to wait.

We also always get turnip cake (above). It's best when it's fresh and hot, and just melts in your mouth. It is a steamed daikon radish (with chinese sausage or pork bits mixed in) cake that has then been pan fried. As you can see from this picture, I wasted no time getting my half of the dish to my plate, all the while sweating because I was sure someone was going to say something to us about taking pictures of the food.

  

Eventually, I realized no one was going to kick us out for taking pictures, so I was able to enjoy my meal. It's unfortunate that I didn't reach that point before the picture on the right was taken, though, where I am so nervous I can't smile properly and end up just looking weird. 

 

After Dim Sum, we took a walk around the lake at the Rio. It was a beautiful day, and a very pretty walk!