Atmosphere: South Bay branch of obsessively popular dim sum house features an oversized menu of dumplings (steamed and baked) and, unlike the other branches, an affable (and unusual) outdoor patio.When: Lunch and dinner, every day (closes at 8 p.m.).Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. Email Lunasia Dim Sum House Though I’m sure the teas help as well their healing properties are legendary. It’s the yin and yang of dining out - overeating followed by monkish self-denial. And after indulging in every dumpling and noodle in sight, it was well appreciated. Their nonfat Greek yogurt is one of my favorites. Like I said, there’s a Trader Joe’s nearby. I guess that gives you the time to ramble around the shopping center, doing a little browsing. I guess it gives a nod toward the breakfast-and-lunch roots of dim sum, by closing at 8 p.m., an early hour for such a lively Chinese restaurant. My complaints about the non-printed menu notwithstanding, this is a wonderful dim sum experience. I lean toward the mango pudding, but then, I always lean toward pudding. Almost every table seemed to get the hot almond milk topped with a puff pastry. But there’s a lot more to choose from here - wonderful pan-fried string beans, extraordinary sautéed eggplant, lots of noodle dishes and fried rice dishes, even Hong Kong-style roast duck, and Macao-style roasted pork belly.Īnd there are plenty of desserts - eight in all. And certainly, a fine meal can be cobbled together from nothing more than things steamed, baked and fried. You bite into the jumbo shrimp har gow, the emerald green spinach and shrimp dumplings, the Shanghai shrimp wontons, the crispy shrimp rice noodle roll … and you get shrimp - lots of it.īut then, much the same can be said of any of the 26 steamed dishes, most of them dumplings, and the 12 baked and fried dishes. That’s because rather than being packed with some manner of generic shrimp-like substance, these dumplings - plump critters one and all - are filled with whole, tender, amazingly flavorful shrimp. Especially, if what you bite into are any of the several shrimp-filled dumplings. The dim sum here is exceptional, which is pretty much obvious from the first bite. Here, it’s a choice between premium teas, with exotic names like Anxi Tie Guan Yin, Fujian Shoumei (white tea) and Yunnan Pu’er (dark tea). In most dim sum houses, tea is tea is tea. That said, the first task here, once you’ve gotten seated, is to figure out which tea you want.
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