Lunasia - Dec 2021
Tim Ho Wan - Sept 2021
New Hwong Kok - Aug 2021
Dim Sum House - July 2021
Atlantic Seafood - July 2021
Iron Teapot - July 2021
NBC Seafood - June 2021
Capital Dim Sum & BBQ - June 2020
Lucky 1 - Jun 2020
Capital Dim Sum & BBQ - Apr 2020
Dim Sum Express - Mar 2020
Kim Su - Feb 2020
Five Star - Jan 2020
NBC Seafood - Jan 2020
Tang Gong - Jan 2020
Dim sum - 2019
Dim sum - 2018
Dim sum - 2016/2017
Dim sum - 2015
Dim sum - 2014
Dim sum - 2013
Dim sum - 2012
Dim sum - 2011
Dim sum - 2010
Dim sum - 2009
Dim sum - 2008
Dim sum - 2007
New York
Afternoon flight into late night arrival in New York. Took advantage of the view from the hotel to take a picture or two before bedtime, then it was up way too early to meet up with Sam and Parveen and to head to Nom Wah for dim sum.
About as OG as it gets, Nom Wah develops a pretty good line 15 minutes before they open. Fortunately we had planned for this and were 30 minutes early. They've got outdoor seating to help with the massive crowd, and the food mostly holds up. Lo bac guo were tasty but fell apart too easily, the har cheung fun skins were waaaaaay too thick, green onion pancakes a tad plain, and while it was nice they had chicken shu mai for those who don't eat pork, chicken is still a bit bland. The deep fried shrimp were massive, tho, and overall it was a tasty enough meal. Maybe not a place you'd go regularly, but a place you should go at least once if you want to explore dim sum in New York.
Wandered over to Brooklyn afterwards, the underwhelming flea market, and the first of many stops that Sam and Parveen made at Bluestone Coffee to escape the chill. Fun to wander and to get some very classic shots of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, and the Manhattan Bridge. Then wandered back to Chinatown for a bit, as it gave us an opportunity to take the ferry across the East River before dinner, and actually wasn't that much longer to get to Queens.
While I had expected some nicely ghetto Peruvian food in Astoria (maybe Caravan Chicken or Don Pollo), Sam instead found a very promising, very artsy place called Caletta 111. The seafood fried rice was extremely pretty, but he sadly couldn't eat any of the ceviche as it had milk in it (what??), and the lomo saltado was a huge miss. They then insisted they didn't take credit cards despite using Clover, so that was the final straw in what was not a good meal. We instead made up for it by getting some very tasty milk tea at I Milky back in Manhattan. Hot taro milk FTW!