Day 1: Fooding
Day 2: Fooding
Day 3: Costco
Day 4: Yue Huang
Dragon Beaux - August 2023
ixlb - July 2023
World Seafood - July 2023
Koi Palace Express - July 2023
Palette - July 2023
Dim Sum & Bun - June 2023
Five Star Seafood - June 2023
NBC Seafood - May 2023
Tim Ho Wan - May 2023
Bistro 1968 - Apr 2023
Colette - Mar 2023
Dim Sum House - Feb 2023
Wah Sing - Jan 2023
888 Seafood - Jan 2023
Lunasia - Oct 2022
Lunasia - Oct 2022
Good Luck Dim Sum - Aug 2022
Longo Seafood - Aug 2022
Atlantic Seafood - Aug 2022
The Dim Sum Place - July 2022
HKC Dim Sum - Apr 2022
NBC Seafood - Apr 2022
Enlighten Bistro 168 - Jan 2022
Dim sum - 2021
Dim sum - 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
Sacramento
Yue Huang is definitely on the fancier side for dim sum in Sacramento, with a very fast kitchen but imperfect service. They forgot one of my orders, although in the end that wasn't worth mentioning as I was not only short on time, I ended up with plenty of food. Har gow (shrimp dumplings) had promise but were ultimately a bit short, both on execution of the skins and quality of the filling. Ngau pak yip (ginger beef tripe) was short on the ginger, much too plain to compete, just like the lo bac guo (turnip cake). The shu mai (pork dumplings) fell in-between: reasonably meaty but not as flavorful as they could be. Final item was the pai gut (pork spareribs with black beans), which were again amply meaty but a tad short on flavor.
Verdict: nice to find some dim sum in Sacramento that isn't stuck in the 1950s, but execution has a ways to go.
Flights back were okay aside from a significant delay, but that just gave time to hang out in Air Canada's Maple Leaf Lounge at SFO. The lounge itself is a nicely executed physical space with a decent lobster bisque and a pretty gross seafood cioppino (generous amounts of seafood, waaaaaay too salty). Still not the worst way to spend an unexpected layover, at least not after ingesting some salad to offset the salt disaster.