Dim Sum?

David A. wrote:
>I am looking for a good, or great if possible, dim sum place in town.
>Any suggestions.
>
>Dave Abramowitz
>

Rainbow Restaurant - on Lamar just south of the intersection with 360. Quite a bit better than Tien Hong.

David A. wrote:
> I am looking for a good, or great if possible, dim sum place in town.
> Any suggestions.

  Our favorites are Tien Hong (on Burnet) and Rainbow Restaurant (on
  the North side of the 290 West access road just West of 360).  I think
  they're both good, in different ways.  I prefer Tien Hong because
  it's a lot closer to me.  Between the Asians and the church crowd,
  Tien Hong gets very crowded on Sunday, but they do take reservations.

John R. wrote:
>Pardon my native Texan Naivete', but exactly what is Dim Sum?

  I think it literally means "breakfast" (at least, the Vietnamese
  phonetic cousin, "diem tam", means breakfast).  Generally, it means
  a style of eating where you eat lots of different dishes in smaller
  amounts.  The waitstaff would push small carts ladden with a great
  variety of dishes aound the dining room, and you would tackle them
  as they pass (just kidding! |-) and point at what you want.

  I think dim sum is exclusively Chinese.

Someone wrote:
>
>There are 4 restaurants that either do -- or are rumored to -- serve dim
>sum, normally on weekends only.  They are:
>
>1. Tien Hong, on Burnet
>2. Rainbow Seafood Restaurant (or something like that) on 290 West just
>southwest of the Lamar exchange.
>3. Someone told me Pao's Mandarin House is serving Dim Sum, but I can't
>confirm that.

I've had dim sum at Pao's: the dim sum they serve is somewhat different than what I'm used to at places like Tien Hong. I believe they describe it as "northern" dim sum. There was some overlap between their menu and (what I'd call) "traditional" dim sum, but there were quite a few items that I haven't seen elsewhere.

>4. Someone else told me there's a kind of "fast food" Dim Sum being served
>by a restaurant that's north of 183 on Lamar.  Again, unconfirmed.

This might be Mongkok, 10014 North Lamar. I had dim sum there a few weekends ago and was quite happy with it. (I'm not sure I'd describe it as "fast food" dim sum: it seemed to me similar to Tien Hong, or the dim sum at the late Shanghai.  And Mongkok was, at one point, a north branch of the Rainbow Seafood Restaurant: I'm not sure if the same people are running the non-affiliated version.))

==Dwight

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Someone wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good dim sum joint in Austin? I used to go to Rainbow
> Seafood on South Lamar a couple of years ago, but they went under... Have
> missed it since.
>
> I'd like to find a place that does dim sum cart style, if possible. Ordering
> from a menu just doesn't have the same "point and eat" charm.
>
Tien Hong is good but the wait is usually long, so I prefer T&S Seafood (formerly Mong Kok, formerly Rainbow North), with Twin Dragon as a backup. Both are on N. Lamar between 183 and Breaker.