Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Things To Know To Find The Best Dim Sum In Dallas TX

By Betty Lewis


At this very moment you are probably having some hunger pangs for Chinese food, more specifically for the dim sum variety. As such you would want to find the best and most authentic dim sum in Dallas TX to satiate your cravings at the moment. Do read on in this article so that you will know how to hunt down the best place to get your dim sum.

When you do an internet search for Chinese restaurants you are basically looking specifically for those that serve Cantonese food, as dim sum is more of a specialty of the Cantonese as against Szechuan, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Zheijang cuisine. Thus you will look for a restaurant that will specialize in Cantonese fare as they basically pride themselves in dim sum type foods.

Dim sum are the western equivalent of finger foods, but they are much more than that. In fact, they can be a meal unto themselves and are usually not served with rice or main dishes. They complement all the other dishes on the menu but they cannot be classified as appetizers either. The closest definition would be something akin to a heavy snack.

Find a restaurant that boasts it has Hong Kong dim sum for the Hong Kong residents pride themselves as making the best. In fact in the latest CNN surveys, Hong Kong is touted as the best place to get such food, even more so than other cities that also try to vie for having the best Chinese food. These restaurant should have the most common and most well known representatives of such food.

One of the staples you will look for on the menu will be siew mai, or siomai. These are wonton wraps with meat, vegetables or even seafood inside and steamed to high temperature until cooked. If well cooked, the wonton itself will basically just melt in your mouth, literally. It is best eaten with some shrimp or chili sauce and soy sauce with a bit of lemon dash if available.

Another common fare for this kind of food is the dumpling or the colloquial siopao or siew pao, which is most commonly seen in the movies like Kung Fu Panda for example. It is a steam dumpling that is cooked with a meat filling usually. If it is filled with vegetables it is not usually fully enclosed and looks more like a sandwich. The dumpling filled with vegetables is called Kwa Pao. These dumplings are also served with their own condiments and sauces which add to their flavor.

Definitely if these kind of foods are served on the menu then you will be getting close to the real deal. Just remember that usually these kind of foods are always served piping hot and tis will include others on the fare like chicken feet, spare ribs and har gow, another type of dumpling.

And finally you can tell the place you are going to is the real deal if you can see the clientele. If the clientele if mostly Chinese then you are in the right area, for it means that they really appreciate the taste and only they would really be the ones qualified to say that it is the real deal.




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