Saturday, August 30, 2008

Dim Sum in a Storage Closet

While Mr. Monkey went to his college buddy's place to watch their school dominate the first game of the season, I had dim sum with Brother Monkey, Torry, and Mama Monkey. We have no ties to any college with a decent football team.
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Happy Harbor Restaurant (1015 Nogales Street, Rowland Heights) is always very crowded. I'm not exactly sure why. I guess the food is decent, but there's really nothing special about this place. See?
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Today we didn't even sit in the real dining room. We sat in a storage closet because "no four table [sic]." Ohhh-kay. Note all the boxes in the back corner. Unbelievable. Hysterical.
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Here is the lovely air-conditioning unit above our heads that whirred noisily under the harsh fluorescent lighting.
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Atrocious ambience aside, the dim sum offerings are tasty enough. Rather than picking from carts, you peruse a menu, tally your desired dishes, and hand your list to your server.
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Shao mai (steamed pork dumplings in a wheat wrapper topped with roe).
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Lotus leaf sticky rice.
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Jie lan (Chinese broccoli).
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Fried bacon fishcake. Blech. Don't get this.
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Three-flavor chang fen (steamed wide rice noodles stuffed with shrimp, cha sao, and beef).
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Xia jiao (shrimp dumplings).
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Steamed cha sao bao (barbecued pork buns).
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Fried glutinous rice dumplings filled with pork and shiitake mushrooms. Excellent.
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Xiao long bao. A far cry from those served at specialty xiao long bao places like Din Tai Fung, J&J, and Mei Long Village.
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Dan ta (egg tarts). Burnt but still rather delicious. My family loves these. Mr. Monkey's family doesn't.
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After dim sum, we went to Lollicup next door. Boba for a buck!
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Yeah, that's a "C" health rating. We live on the edge.
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Hours later, I still have no gastrointestinal problems. Phew.
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I love my cutie boba-loving family.

16 comments:

  1. mmm... I love lotus-leaf sticky rice.

    lol at the storage closet seating.

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  2. I'm a little disillusioned that something that was (a) fried and (b) had bacon in it didn't taste yummy. :(

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  3. parallel lives. i am blogging about my dim sum in rowland heights as i read this/write this comment.

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  4. I'm still gagging at the fried bacon fishcake. Usually you provide such yummy looking photos (and descriptions of photos), but this one just left me with no appetite for breakfast. Ick!!!

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  5. dying at the closet. that is awful!

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  6. BROTHER MONKEY'S TEETH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i got some kind of food poisoning yesterday from a gelson's salad bar. f.

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  7. lol at C rating. You do live on the edge. If you want to cross off another item off your list (whole insects), I found an intriguing possibility... http://www.typhoon-restaurant.com/dinnermenu.html

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  8. the college football lover in me wants to know what college mr. monkey was cheering on!

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  9. Spotted: BroMo's smile caught on camera!

    How I miss decent dimsum. Sigh.

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  10. we see BroMo's smile twice in one week?! amazing! (btw, he has such a nice smile. such a shame he doesn't smile more in pics.)

    C health rating?! yikes! glad to hear your GI is a-ok!

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  11. It amazes me how they stuff people into chinese restaurants.

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  12. heehee... you always get the best tables.

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  13. so sad you had to eat in a storage closet! :/

    your brother is smiling! !!!

    i can't do "C" restaurants. after knowing all the crap you have to do to even get a "B", well yeah....

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  14. fried + bacon = bad?

    i am officially sad.

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  15. I have a Lollicup right down the street from my house. I thought of you and your boba loving family when I realized. :)

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