It's Sunday! And the perfect day for a family dim sum hang out. Where will you go? Fremont? San Jose? Sunnyvale? Oakland or San Francisco Chinatown? What is your favorite dish?Dim Sum is literally translated to mean "a pinch or dab of heart" and the light dishes are served with Chinese tea. The meal is consumed in the morning until noon (or two o'clock for some places.) It's like the equivalent of a Chinese-style brunch. The dishes are stacked in bamboo bowls. Shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, rice noodles, onion pancakes, chicken feet, fruit, sweet or salty buns are some of the many examples for dim sum.
My fondest memory is meeting all my relatives in Oakland Chinatown for a Sunday dim sum. My dad would order a few main dishes, pour the tea and us kids would point to all our favorites. I loved the rice noodles with shrimp and all the vegetable dishes (go figure!). My dad loved the duck and oily pork. My mom would gnaw on the oxtail soup bones and my brother would eat anything. Though I was a picky eater, I still inhaled those chicken legs and spit out the bones all all once. Man, it's been a long many years since I've done that! And to be honest, I don't really miss it.
I love to go to Sunday dim sum on occasion, but not often since the food isn't necessary all that healthy. But just like ice cream parlors, fast food and all-you-can-eat buffets, it's the fun of eating and the happy family get-togethers...
Hope you're enjoying this beautiful, hot Sunday - dim sum or not day.
