Food- Dim Sum in San Francisco
posted in Food |For a few years now Hillel and I have had a bit of a debate about which of two San Francisco dim sum restaurants is better. The two
contenders are Yank Sing and Ton Kiang. I’ve always argued that Yank Sing had
more interesting variety in dishes, but as of today I’ll switch and admit that
Hillel was right. I visited Ton Kiang and I’ve got to say that the variety and
just great freshness of their dim sum put them in the top spot.
I warmed up with a couple of pot stickers, but then they brought around
something that is apparently a new dish they just introduced- green tea salad.
They bring it on a plate with different ingredients (cabbage, garlic, peanuts, I
think ginger and some green tea paste) separate and then mix it together for you
at the table. It didn’t blow me away but it was very nice and it was a new taste
which was great.
Then I had a couple of deep fried pork buns. These were great when fresh-
later on I brough some back for Kat and they were a bit greasy but right at the
table they didn’t come off that way. The snow pea shoots were very good, and the
shrimp and snowpea, and scalop dumplings were just about perfect- delicate but
they didn’t fall apart when you tried to pick them up. Finally a few normal pork
buns, which were super fresh again.
Also checked out a couple of other places the last two days- Straits cafe
opened a branch in some new mall down in San Jose and I found it very
disappointing. And Kat and I went to Aqua which was just great- it was nice to
have interesting modern cuisine with the sea-food angle on it which resulted in
something a bit different from the “usual”.
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