For a while now, tapas – little plates of food you nibble and share – have been big in Vancouver. But, long before tapas ever came to the city, we had dim sum. As much a social experience as a meal, dim sum involves sampling from dozens of different bite-sized Chinese dishes, usually served in small, bamboo steamer baskets.
Filled with everything from shrimp dumplings to fried radish cakes, the steaming baskets are wheeled out on a rolling cart that makes the rounds through the restaurant. If you see something you like, you just flag it down.
There are literally hundreds of Chinese restaurants serving dim sum in Vancouver. In fact, for many people, sitting down to a weekend dim sum is the culinary highlight of the week: It’s cheap, the food is authentic and, when you get down to it, it’s like a buffet that comes right to your table. Options are plentiful in Chinatown, along Main and Fraser Streets and in Richmond and Burnaby. But there hasn’t been a great dim sum place in Yaletown.
Until now.
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Dim Sum (with a twist) Comes to Yaletown
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