![]() ![]() But the standouts among the standouts were the chau chau dumplings (pork with chopped, crunchy water chestnuts and peanuts), the fried fish cakes (flat, scallion-pancakey disks with a thin layer of fish paste, and really superb panfried dumplings, juicy enough to almost be soup dumplings. Standouts were the shrimp and chive dumplings (both the steamed and fried versions), the modestly named Shanghai chow mein (with thick, chewy noodles), the deepfried bean curd sheets, and rice cakes with XO sauce (texture tossup between the same dish with slightly less chewy turnip cakes). Had another round of spectacular takeout dim sum from Winsor yesterday, spectacular even after a 30 minute drive home. It was sad to see all the steamer baskets, etc., all piled up, also ostensibly for sale. This was more a nostalgia trip than a great dim sum experience. For the sake of old times, we did pickup from Shangri La the weekend before they closed.There were three diners in the restaurant when I picked up around 3 p.m. Their fried shrimp and chive dumplings were bursting with tender shrimp, the Szechuan tripe was very tender and nicely tingly, and the panfried turnip cakes with xo sauce was, as observed above, much superior to the straight pan fried versions usually available elsewhere. (We’d chosen China Pearl over them because CP offers curbside pickup and W requires you to come in.) It was spectacular. ![]() Two days ago we did takeout from Winsor for the first time.Unfortunately they’ve cut back even further in their Chinatown operations and are now only open weekends.Įta: China Pearl Dim Sum menus (both locations). We loved their sticky rice in lotus leaf, their steamed and their fried shrimp dumplings with chives, and their pan fried pork buns. ![]() Their dumplings were all very fresh and bursting with flavor. ![]() Over the pandemic, though, they were cooking in small quantities and making a lot of things to order – and the quality shot up. As for the dim sum itself, there was usually better to be had at Winsor, Great Taste, etc. We’ve done the Lunar New Year there every year for over twenty years (except occasionally when we’ve been in NYC, whereupon we’ve done Jing Fong), usually with a large group. Our fondness for China Pearl is largely for its festive atmosphere.
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