from a bicycle powered food cart

Yeah, on Wilshire, 2nd floor of a strip mall. We went there for dinner once - unimpressive. You have to go Sat or Sun late morning for the carts. You have to time it. 10am when they open is too early as all the carts aren't ready. By noon they are pretty busy so around 10:45am is ideal. We went around 1pm once and they were already out of dofu fa. That was a bummer. It isn't as good as the best places in Monterey Park, but it is as good as the typical places there and better than Chinatown or anyplace on the west side.

if your in seattle, try this one Uwajimaya's great and huge place

This ought to be in the thread about snobs.

an irony here is that Leah Chase recently won a lifetime achievement award and in her interview said that Dookey's was not nearly as good during segregation because they could not serve white customers

Dirty rotten white people.. ruining everything... why don't they go back to where they came from?


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Funny thing, my wife is full blood Korean (as far as we know, adopted a a baby and raised in rural south Oregon).

I am a native SoCal boy... blond, blue eyes... so white I boarder on pink.

Wife is a 'county girl', loves meat and potoatos, hamburgers, apple pie...

I'm ethnic, love real Mexican, shushi, Chinese... my favorite thing about visiting her when she lived in Portland was going out to eat.

We have a Uwajimaya in Portland (Beaverton actually), it is smaller and mostly just a Japanese market, but a very good one.

Been there, nice however prices are a bit high... but then we have Gardena ;) YMMV

You all suck

Can you imagine our options here I'm Texas

I think we do ok wrt Indian food, and I've had some ok Vietnamese

We've actually got a couple of ok sushi places, but one went way down hill when the chef defected

That place was where the Japanese went when they were in town visiting, but it hasn't been the same since they brought in a guy from San Diego

The old guy was originally recruited from Japan

The best sushi that I've ever had was Shiro's in Seattle many years ago

You have FANTASTIC Chinese food in Houston. I think they're all on Bellaire Blvd. or in some cluster, but I've been there and you have it very good in Houston wrt Chinese food. I'm sure there must be some Cantonese folk there too, which means there has to be a good dim sum place or two.

Rick - what do you and Mrs. Lee think of C Fu?

Haven't been there. It's just too far. We sometimes go to Great Wall on Camelback and it's pretty good, but usually crowded.

I was just at that place at the recommendation of some of the locals 2 mos ago, and it was loaded to the gills with Chinese, and I thought the same thing.

WTF? It did kind of suck, and there was no dim sum selection per-se. I expected better from San Diego.

Then again, I'm used to Seattle. Chinatown there has lots of good places. House of Hong, I don't care what YELP says.

rjp

Omaha, NE is a black hole of Asian food. I haven't figured out PHX yet, and the dim sum is blah. Can't remember the places I went to but it was somewhere- near camelback in some strip mall next to some discount grocery store.

I haven't been able to find Fried stuffed tofu (Shrimp paste) anywhere outside seattle.

Any advice?

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Guys there are no good dim sum place in san diego. Jasmine, Emerald are two of the bigger Chinese restaurants around here, and they are just bad as far as dim sum or Chinese food goes.

Seattle has plenty of dim sum places in chinatown like house of hong, top gun and more.

I will say that San Diego does have a SUPER Sichuan place called Spicey City. There's one in Irvine on Culver St. too. And their near twin restaurant, called Yunnan Garden, has locations in San Gabriel and in Las Vegas. I really have never had a better meal in the US than at Yunnan Garden and Spicey City. I will probably make a special trip to LA in a few weeks just to go there and for dim sum in San Gabriel or Monterey park.

I used to go to House of Hong so often the doorman knew me by name and car.... I think Top Gun was the place closed for drug deals IIRC..

rjp

drug dealers, pimps, dark allies=good food

LOL - I like dim sum every month or so. Always overeat, of course.

My favorite is to have to track down chicken feet or duck tongues. A white family sits down, and somehow they disappear from the selection. Of course, once you ask, they re-appear suddenly with a smile!

G

Chicken feet- kinda look like BBQ chicken strips.

It's funny- one of my EX's who is so white (Polish white- white) loves chicken feet. Got into it with the chopsticks and the whole bit while I sat there with my fork. I won't touch it. Got all kinds of crap about it every weekend.

Siu Mai, shrimp and chive ball, scallop ball, fan gor (?) (shrimp - cilantro) and real red chili sauce all day long...

We should do Pelican Dim SUm meet somewhere, sometime. No more Hooters.