![]() Merchandise can sometimes be knockoffs of your favorite brands or have logos meant to resemble those of fancy name-brand bags. Most of the pushcart ladies do not speak English.Though we don’t endorse purchasing knock-off counterfeit handbags, we can provide you with information about where and how to do this.ĭon’t forget that selling counterfeit goods is a crime, so be careful with whom you deal.įirst, you can visit legitimate stores licensed to sell goods. This place will make you feel like you are in Asia. I would recommend Royal Seafood Restaurant if you like authentic dim sum and don’t mind sharing a table with strangers and eating in a noisy place. They are steamed before pan-fried and usually served with a sweet sauce on the side. Turnip cake is made of daikon radish, shrimp and Chinese pork sausage. Stuffed bean curds are shiitake mushroom, ground pork, bamboo shoots and black fungus wrapped in soft bean curd sheets. ![]() Royal Seafood Restaurant’s braised chicken feet are not the best. These chicken feet are deep-fried, washed in cold water and braised for hours before being served. It is definitely a dish that requires courage and practice if it is not in your culture to eat chicken feet. Most of my friends including my children will not touch this dish. To me the best way to judge a dim sum place is through the texture and flavor of the braised chicken feet. This thin translucent dough is also used for steamed chives dumplings.īraised chicken feet, stuffed bean curds and turnip cake The shrimp dumpling is a combination of shrimp and pork wrapped in a thin translucent dough. Roast pork buns are small and soft steamed buns filled with sweet slow roasted pork. Roast pork buns (cha siu pau) and steamed shrimp dumpling The texture of the yolk is the litmus test. Kay said lau sar pau can be used to determine the quality of a dim sum restaurant. Nowadays only the best dim sum restaurants serve lau sar pau. You have to be really careful when you bite into these buns. To me these buns tasted like the yolk of the traditional egg custards and the dough of the classic roast pork buns ( char siu pau). Kay introduced me to the “in thing” for dim sum - the lau sar pau (salted egg custard buns) also known as buns with oozing egg yolk in the middle. These days in most dim sum places ordering is done through checking the boxes on a sheet of paper. Royal Seafood Restaurant is one of the few places with pushcart ladies serving dim sum in New York City. It is polite to pour hot tea for your guests. Once the teapot is empty, tilt the lid and the server will refill the teapot with hot water. Most restaurants give free refills for the tea. ![]() Mostly served in bite-size on small plates or bowl and small bamboo steamers.Ī pot of tea is shared among friends and family. Dim sum means ‘touch the heart’ and the dishes are served pan-fried, baked, steamed and deep-fried. In fact the Cantonese people do not say “lets go for dim sum” instead they say “yum cha” which means drinking tea. Hot tea is essential when having dim sum. Three separate groups of diners were already on our table – a man eating alone, a woman eating alone and a couple eating together. We were escorted to a table with eight chairs and four were occupied. All the tables were lined with pink tablecloths and chairs covered with yellow fabric. The dining room was packed with local Chinese and the head waiter used a microphone to direct “human traffic” to empty tables. Sitting arrangements at Royal Seafood Restaurant With a tip of $5 our bill was only $27.75. I paid $22.75 for a pot of tea with four refills and 10 plates/baskets of dim sum for the four of us – my two friends, my son and I. Royal Seafood Restaurant was a pleasant surprise- serving authentic dim sum for a fraction of the price in regular dim sum places in New York City. ![]() I would not have known if Kay was not with us. Tong Lai is actually Royal Seafood Restaurant. We headed to the right just like the lady said and I began to look for the restaurant. Mott Street was just around the corner from the Chinese herbal shop in Hester Street. The problem was- I couldn’t find the restaurant while zig-zagging in the small streets of Chinatown. I attempted to bring my visitors to Nom Wah Restaurant, the only place I knew in Chinatown for dim sum. Inc, a Chinese herbal shop for a great place to yam cha (drink tea for Cantonese). While going in and out of the stores I asked a friendly lady at C.H.T. ![]() It was Kay’s first time to NYC and she was on a mission to purchase Wisconsin ginseng for her elderly parents in Malaysia. Nothing beats a recommendation from a local! My friends came for a four-day visit and one of the things to do was a visit to Chinatown. ![]()
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