[jyl]

Good point, non-Chinese Asians can also be a bad sign for the authenticity of a dim sum place, but realistically Portland's Japanese or Thai or Vietnamese popl'n isn't prone to flock to dim sum houses.

In some cities there are large enough ethnic popl'ns that a good Japanese place can be filled with almost all Japanese, a good Vietnamese place with almost all Vietnamese, etc. In those cities, when I walk into that Japanese restaurant, I can hear people thinking "oh no, there goes the neighborhood". But Portland is too small for that.

By the same token, when a good ethnic place here gets encroached into mediocrity, there aren't so many others to choose from. It's not like LA or the Bay Area, both have dozens of dim sum places that are better than the best one in all of Portland. Here, I'll have to hope that a new place has opened up recently and is still "unspoiled" and is convenient enough to be a semi-regular stop.