For many, an “authentic” experience of eating Chinese food dim sum style involves dining in a room of carts bearing tantalizing bites in bamboo steamers or presented on pristine porcelain plates. It’s ...

JUST close your eyes and listen. A Chinese restaurant in the midst of dim sum service sounds like nothing else. You can pick out the percussive beat of plates clattering against each other, the whir ...

That said, nearly every dish served during dim sum is a crowd-pleaser. It just wouldn’t be dim sum without har gow and siu mai, and East Ocean does the two popular dim sum favorites well. The har gaw ...

I’ll never forget my first dim sum experience, thanks simply to the sheer terror of it. I was seated in a massive hall with 300 strangers, all of whom seemed to ...

A newish spin on steamed buns, these savory-sweet treats are sometimes decorated like cute animals for celebrations. They’re nicknamed “Golden River” bao for the stream of salted egg yolk inside. This ...