Have you guys tried Dum-Sum in Hong Kong Restaurant in Dormont? I think it is the best of the best in Pittsburgh. Better than Taipei! The problem, though, is they serve Dum-Sum only once a month - the first Sunday of the month. On the first Sunday, in fact, they prepare Dum-Sum for themselves, not for the regular menu dishes, - I guess they have the monthly family re-union on the first Sunday. But, you can still try these special dishes. If you are luck on the day, you can try many different kinds of Dum-Sum which you've never tried before. The regular menu dishes are also wonderful. I think it is one of the best Chinese restaurants I've ever tried. Another good Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh is 'Oriental Kitchen' in Oakland. This is an authentic Cantonese Chinese restaurant. Try Giant Oyster dish, if you like, and Beef Chao Fan. These are wonderful. It is very inexpensive, too. The waitress is a little bit grumpy. The problem with these two restaurant is that they do not accept the credit cards. You have to carry cash! These two restaurants are not well-known to public, although they have been in business for many years. I hope these two restaurants are in good business so that I can keep in touch with a good Chinese taste in PGH. JK Assist. Professor Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery and Mechanical Engineering Univ. of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Best Dum-Sum in PGH
I haven't been to too many places, but the best Dim sum I've had in
Pittsburgh is at Chinese on Carson. There's never a crowd, and the food is
great. They also take credit cards.
A C on C regular,
DanielExcerpts from netnews.pgh.food: 4-Jul-95 Best Dum-Sum in PGH by Jun-Kyo The accepted spelling is Dim Sum. Not to be net-picky or anything. Suh, Ph.D.@pitt. > Another good Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh is 'Oriental Kitchen' in > Oakland. This is an authentic Cantonese Chinese restaurant. Try Giant > Oyster dish, if you like, and Beef Chao Fan. These are wonderful. It is > very inexpensive, too. The waitress is a little bit grumpy. I recommend the hot-pots. Great stuff. (I like five-treasure hotpot. for those of you who like tofu, this one has tofu, despite other offering that says "tofu and vegetable" This one has tofu too, but is 2 bucks cheaper.) Orient Kitchen has been around forever, it's a bit of an Oakland Secret. Chinese families eat here. (Indian people eat at the Taj Mahal, it seems.) Ask for the special vegetable of the day. It's usually a green leafy vegetable prepared anyway you want. I like it with the fermented bean cake (pronounced, ahem, "fuu-gnyo" apologizes to native Catonese speakers). But, it's a bit of an aquired taste to some. Well, that's what my friends told me. I grew up with stuff like that. It's a funny place, they actually have two menus. Once, when I went with some white friends, they gave us this weird menu, listing stuff like chow mein and fried rice. I was wondering "what the hell is this?". So I asked what was going on and she promptly got me and my friends the real (older) menu. So, ask for real menu if you don't look Asian, I guess. The absolutely best thing is that they are open till 1 AM. That is the way things should be. Like Chinatown before they got scared of the triads. Tai Pei tried until Midnight recently, but backed down until 11pm. Boooo. Vital stats: A dumpy place on Semple, next to Larry and Carol's. The chopsticks are of the unwieldy big and plastic type: Expert level chopsticks. BYOB, cash. Delivery? No way. Closed on one odd day of the week. Wednesday, maybe. Waitress sometimes absent, or place empty. Take a table and wait. Someone will come. Overall rating: Thumbs up. -Ikeda.............................................................. : :New Image Press : : my e-mail alias is :4433 Howley Street : : :Pittsburgh PA 15224: :Vietnam American Education Foundation :412.683.1300 : <http://www.saigon.com/~vaef/vaef.html> :412.683.1390 fax : :University Conversion Project :...................: <http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/ti08/UCP_jump_page.html> : :.............................................................:
yes, Oriental Kitchen is wonderful. I recently took a chinese visitor there, and it received rave reviews, especially the unusual items on the alternate menu. that menu and the visitor were concerned mainly with Cantonese items, which strike me as kinda bland. in spite of this, their General Tso's chicken is also very good, better than the other local places I've sampled. note that it's near Mellinger's a beer distributor which has a very nice selection of non-megabrews. regards, mark hahn.