Grand China

Edie C. wrote:
>Oh no!!  That's terrible news...  there goes my place for getting
>northern Chinese brunch foods!  Does anyone know where else to go
>for that?
>
>(Northern chinese brunch is kind of the northern version of dim
>sum, but it features more soup/porridge type things, and long strips
>of fried dough literally translated as "oil sticks", and some flaky
>flat breads with sesame seeds on them called "shzao bing" (sorry I
>don't know pin-yin).)

I know of two such places in San Mateo (on weekends only):

Sun Tong on "B" Street around 3rd
and
Hsi Nan on 25th just east of El Camino Real

Both have Northern style dim-sum (just as you described -- and more!) but only on the weekends, and not on carts -- you have to mark off on a sheet or order what you want.