Food: August 2005 Archives

The Wang was just browsing many of the usual LA blogs and came accross a thread about ethnic foods in LA on la.foodblogging.com. The Wang felt his national duty to throw out a few fame dim sum spots of choice.

Rare and explusive to LA is Din Tai Fung. Din Tai Fung is a chain retaurant from Taiwan that has only 5 stores in the world, NY, Tokyo, LA, and 2 in Taipei. Their specialties are shanghai style soup dumplings. These small dumplings are filled with a soup broth and baked. They exploded when u bite into them and require some skills before the chopsticks upon them. Due to its wordly reputation, Ding tai Fung does get quite a lot of tourists and can pack quite a wait line. Specially on weekends, when the special weekend soup dumplings are made. Amongst my personal are the crab dumpling and the red bean dumpling, which are on the heavy side, but each bite is a little sweet delight.

Another dim sum store of some fame is Mission 261. Following in the current trend in Hong Kong, fusion Dim Sum, and the success of Koi Palace (which I absolutely recommand)in San Francisco, we get Mission 261. Located in the mission district of San Gabriel, this dim sum restaurant brings us just a few new twists on old dim sum favorites. There mochi wrapped stuff are my favorites. This includes the shrimp dumplings and many of the desert-type dumplings.