Best Dim Sum in SF
 

Hi, we are leaving Saturday for SF. Could I have some suggestions for the best dim sum. Thanks.

Yet Wah on Clement Street has great dim sum.

We like New Asia on Pacific.

Another vote for New Asia.

Yank Sing.

owa= I have been going to Yank Sing ( the one in the financial district) for years and LOVE it....

Please, what is Dim Sum?

cd:

dim sum = Chinese tapas

dim sum = "heart's desire"

Food is placed on small dishes and pushed around on carts. You point to the dish you wish and it is placed on your table. A good dim sum house has at least 80 some varieties of different types of "munchies". The carts go round and round and you order and order until you are stuffed or the clock strikes 2pm. Dim sum is usually served between 11am and 2pm.

Dim sum is consumed with tea, not wine. It is a popular Chiense way for families to spend weekend lunches. Chinese papa hides behind his Sunday newspaper and leaves his wife to deal with feeding the kids. It's called a family outing. :)

Two postings with the same title? What happened?

I'm sorry about the double post, but thrilled by all the posts and suggestions. I am constantly amazed by how willing everyone is to take the time and share their experiences and knowledge. Thanks everyone!

If you're shopping in Chinatown and suddenly find yourself famished and in need of food quick, try Louie's Dim Sum (1230 Stockton Street). There are no tables, barely a counter to eat on, and three beat up old chairs that look like they came from my grandmother's kitchen in the 60s. It was cheap and good, though! And as I sat on my chair scarfing my dim sum, I saw a steady stream of local Chinese people picking up boxes of pre-ordered dim sum. One woman exclaimed, "This is the best dim sum in town, you know!"

easytraveler
Thanks for the education.

What you can learn here! Is it true that dim sum means "heart's desire"? I once read it meant "little dishes" and I've always believed that. Wrong?

cd: as we say in Chinese: "You wawa (You're welcome!)" :)

Patrick: it's been variously translated. Literally the two characters are

dim = to touch, to point. A dot.

sum = heart

"to touch the heart" "point to the heart" = (loosely: "heart's desire")

BUT

There have also been other ways of writing the two characters, as a play on words, so you could possibly get other meanings.

HOWEVER, at this moment, I can't think of two characters that come out sounding like "dim sum" and mean "little dishes", which, doesn't mean that it's not possible! Not being very helpful, am I? Sorry! :B

easytraveler

Wellllll if you wanna get technical.....it may depend on the dialect in which you say the words "dim sum." My family comes from some obscure little village in China with a very different dialect. My dad said that our way of saying "rice" (or was it "tea"?) would mean "death" in another dialect. Oh, never mind! Let's just eat some dim sum shall we?

Throwing in my votes for Harbour Village in the Embarcadero and Koi Palace in Serramonte.