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>Eat dim sum
>shit is bland as fuck

What other overrated foods are there?

>> No.5128119

protip go to a better dimsum place

>> No.5128121

>eat pancakes
>they were burnt
>there were eggshells in them
>they didn't even have maple syrup

Fucking pancakes.

>> No.5128404

>>5128118
i would suck 118 cocks to have dim sum in my town, OP. I hope you get raped by 118 stallions and die after 118 days of anal pain.

>> No.5128414

>gwai lo calling it dim sum

Nigger, that's like saying "buffet is bland as fuck"

>> No.5128427

>>5128118
I've had bland dim sum a few times myself. In fact, the first 2 times I ate dim sum I thought it was supposed to be like that because it was shit both times. Then I went to a good dim sum place and then another and now I totally love it, just wish it wasn't so expensive.

>> No.5128430

>>5128414

What do you call it you chink faggot? I'm mixed and we call it dim sum, so do my chink friends

>> No.5128440

>>5128430
Usually we call it by [dish names]

Even a full chinese breakfast or dinner has like 10 fucking dishes, so the bite sized lunch/afternoon tea stuff isn't much of a difference other than it's a tad lighter.

>> No.5128441

>>5128430
I bet he'll call it yum cha which means drinking tea in their ching ching language. Except all the Chinese people I know never use that phrase anyways and just go with dim sum.

>> No.5128447

>>5128441
yum means "drink" and cha (moreso pronounced tsa) means tea.

and yum cafe (pronounced gafe) means coffee.

Also, you add a "-la" at the end to be 'friendly' So you ask for "yum gafela" if you want to be pleasant at a cafe.


The more you know...

>> No.5128451

I'm from SEA and these things have definitely increased in popularity(overrated) while keeping the same expensive price. Sure there are better places, but good places costs a fortune.

Also yum cha is used loosely to refer to catching up with friends over a light meal where I'm from.

>> No.5128488

>>5128118
that's like going to mcdonals and saying "man burgers are overrated"

>> No.5128544

can we turn this into a general dim sum discussion thread?

Me and my girlfriend went to tim ho wan in sam shui po last week and it was pretty good. Not really sure why it's starred tho, it just kind of seems like a very well executed dim sum restaurant, of which there are probably hundreds in hong kong.

the pineapple pork buns were pretty crazy but a little cloying. The highlight for me was the tong sui joint they served up, steamed egg white w/ bird's nest. Totally slippery, creamy and melt in your mouth, a gentle sweet and gingery flavour with a nice crunch from the bird's nest.

The meal cost under $25 for us both, I dunno if the price of dim sum is prohibitive even here in australia

and yeah op you went to a shitty restaurant or don't know what to order

>> No.5128703

>>5128451
My family & family friends went to a really well known dim sum restaurant in little saigon(because the one we used to go to is under new management). We ate like Amerifats and it came out to $15 per person.

>> No.5128713

>>5128441
yeah we all call it dim sum

>> No.5128714

You think they clean those bamboo steamers? >implying steam can kill whatever nasty bacteria is on it

>> No.5128721

>eat food that isn't melted cheese and salt
>muh so bland why do people like that *sip oil*

>> No.5128950

>>5128544
If it's a good restaurant, then it deserves a Michelin star. One Michelin star basically means it's good and better than most, two means it's worth explicitly making a trip if you're in the area, three means it's worth making a trip for the restaurant. When looking for new restaurants, I treat one star restaurants the same way I treat any other restaurant, and two for special treats. I live in London, though, with good access to one star restaurants so I have the luxury of ignoring them.

>>5128714
Not really. If you're not careful, washing the steamers can make them smell soapy, and you don't want the wood to soak up that much water. However, blasts of hot water should do the trick. It's kind of like wooden chopping boards, anyway. I don't worry about it. Generally, it's only dough that actually touches the steamer and the steam does kill bacteria.

>>5128440
What if you want to go eat dim sum, what do you say then? "Want to go eat chicken feet, chang fen, cha shao bao, but maybe not those and maybe some other dishes?" Sure other meals have multiple dishes but it's usually different kinds of dishes. If I went to a Chinese restaurant for san shao, steamed fish, stir fried beans, pak choi, and aubergine, I wouldn't call that dim sum.

>> No.5129271

>>5128118
Your pleb is showing.

All insults aside if it was really bland (rather than taste is out of whack from eating salty fast food and snack all your life) then this guy is right >>5128119

>> No.5129300

what are some good vege dishes offered at dim sum? a buddy invited me and I wanna know which lady I have to trip

>> No.5129306

>>5129300
>good vege dishes offered at dim sum?
Steamed leek dumpling and red/black bean cake leap to mind. Turnip cake is not veggie, as it's loaded with bacon and topped with oyster sauce.

>> No.5129321

>>5128118
>This dumbass that ordered only American Chinese food and got served all the 12+ hour shit from the night before

>> No.5129323

>>5128118
What's that white stuff on the far right?

>> No.5129333

>>5129323
steamed buns. like a soft slightly sticky dough normally filled with saucy meat.

>> No.5129336

>>5129323
>>5129333
The ones on the far right are char siu buns, most likely, which have a saucy meat filling. However, I wouldn't say steamed buns usually have a meat filling, I think the majority of places I go to are fifty fifty on the savoury to sweet ratio, savoury also including just vegetable buns. The steamed buns at the top could easily be custard buns or something alike.

>> No.5129352

>>5129336
Yeah my bad, i live in Scotland which doesn't have much dim-sum on offer so don't get it much and I've never had steamed buns without meat filling. on the plus side we have some of the best indian cuisine in the UK

>> No.5129394

>>5128447
>pronounced tsa
Taiwanese detected. In Cantonese, Macanese and Mainland Chinese, it is pronounced "cha." In Min-nan, Hokkien/Fujianese and Taiwanese, it is pronounced "tsa," "tse," or "teh," depending on class and regional origin of the speaker. The only Chinese-speakers to regularly call it 'tsa' are the Taiwanese as Hokkien/Fujianese and Min speakers swap interchangeably between 'tsa,' 'tse' and 'teh,' seemingly at random.

There's a Taiwanese-owned tea shop in my area. The proprietor's surname is, quite fittingly, 'tsa.' I like the sing-song quality of Taiwanese Chinese. It's cute. They sound like nightingales.

>> No.5129422

>>5129394
My (Mainland China) father used to tell me that when he was a kid, he and his peers would make fun of Taiwanese kids for their sing song voices.

>> No.5131160

>>5129422
Guy in Taiwan here. Your father was just jealous. Happy year of the Horsie, BTW.

>> No.5131187

>>5129394
Nah, family is Macncheese and speaks Cantonese. It's not a direct "tsa" but it's not really a "ch" sound either.

>> No.5131208

>>5129336
char siu means barbecue pork. They're called bao as a general term, which means bread.

>> No.5131504

>>5129300
dim sum sucks if you're vegetarian tho hahahha

not saying chinese cooking doesn't have anything to offer vegetarians, temple cooking is one of my favourite things in the world, but you might find dim sum kind of lacklustre as all the star dishes are based around pork or prawns

>>5131187
I dunno if it's representative of cooking in your city but me and my girlfriend got food at a restaurant called Riquexo when we visited, was pretty good. In my mind it's pretty much what european food should taste like, maybe growing up with a chinese mother messed with my palate

>>5128950
yeah it was unarguably a good restaurant. I think the lack of starred restaurants in australia makes me think that one star is a big deal

I dunno if there's dim sum of the same quality here in melbourne, i've heard good things about a few restaurants tucked away in the suburbs.

>> No.5131527

>>5128118
Sashimi. I can eat a whole raw salmon as it is.

>> No.5131565

>>5131504
most asian food is disastrous to anyone with a shrimp/seafood allergy, even the most innocuous seeming dumplings or soups probably have shrimp paste, oyster sauce, you name it.

>> No.5131579

>>5129306
you

what?

what kind of weird ass turnip cakes do you eat in your country?

>> No.5131585

>>5131187
you know what gets my goat? Tsim Sha Tsui. why even use that fucking romanization if it has next to nothing to do with the actual way it's pronounced. and I can pronounce Putonghua/Taiwanese Mandarin just fine

>> No.5131586

>>5131585
I was going to guess the Arabs but good answer

>> No.5131597

>>5131586
hey buddy what do you need? weed, hash, copy watches?

WELCOME TO THE MANSIONS MOTHERFUCKER

>> No.5131605

avocado
i know it's subjective but I find it tasteless as fuck
where i live it's expensive and people treat it like a rare treat
also waffles

>> No.5131669

>>5131605
I'm with you on the avacado thing, Anon.

>> No.5131804

Expensive liquor. I'm talking about yolo fags who order shots of top shelf liquor out at bars. Home drinkers, you're good folk.

>> No.5131806
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>>5131804
>yolo fags
>top shelf liquor

Yes, when I go to the bar downstairs with my coworkers at 6:00 and have a $16 glass of whisky before heading home, it's because I want to impress people on twitter.

You guys kill me sometimes.

>> No.5131815

>>5131806
I think he's referring to the "#PATRON #SHOTS ALL AROUND" crowd rather than the "Macallan neat, please" crowd and I also think you know that.

>> No.5131818

>>5131815
>>5131806
>>5131804
Like the wigger who orders shots of johnny blue at a dive purely because its the most expensive thing they have

>> No.5131820

>>5131815

But #patron #shotsallaround guy is a cool guy, it's like the drinking buddies equivalent of buying a girl flowers. Of course it's frivolous and won't last. That's whole point of such gestures. You're not savoring the fine taste of agave at 2:00 saturday morning.

>> No.5131951

>>5131820
I'm just not of that mindset. I'm all for buying shots but there is no reason it has to be top shelf unless you are celebrating something. Maybe if I had a ton of cash to throw around then it would be different but I doubt it.

>> No.5133233

>>5131951

Patron isn't really top shelf though. It's more like "the least shitty thing" if you end up at some random place where people do shots, as sometimes seems to happen during an episode of binge drinking.

If you're at a nice place, the atmosphere isn't really conducive to #yolo #shotsalaround so the situations tend to sort themselves out automatically.

>> No.5133303

can we go back to talking about dim sum who cares about other people's choices in liquor

>>5131579
like every single turnip cake i have ever eaten has either ham or lap cheung in it. It came with x.o sauce when i ordered it once, dried scallop is the greatest of all time

>>5131597

copy bag copy watch

do you need a tailor sir

>> No.5133367

>>5133303
on the other hand, I think the best exchange rate I got for yen was from these shady Indonesian joint in Mirador

>> No.5133378

>>5128118
Sushi, most over rated trash on the planet

>> No.5133401

>>5131806
>Yes, when I go to the bar downstairs with my coworkers at 6:00 and have a $16 glass of whisky before heading home, it's because I want to impress people on twitter.
that would be what your bringing it up here indicates

>> No.5133581

>>5128441
Because yum cha is Cantonese.

>> No.5133612

>>5133581
I've never heard a Hong Konger say yum cha, just Japanese people. Everyone I've met says dim sum. Mainlanders probably say dian xin, I don't remember.

>> No.5133816

>>5133612
>I've never heard a Hong Konger say yum cha,
你識果尐真係香港人?
I am a real Hong Konger and everyone here say yum cha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum
if you don't believe me,check the wiki.

>> No.5133834

Be careful of dim sum restaurants. Usually they would write the receipt in Chinese which round eyes can't read and conveniently add the gratuity.

>> No.5133860

>>5133834
>>Chinese which round eyes can't read
It is a funny things that what you guys call chinks is chinese northern feature and dim sum is southern food.

>> No.5134090

>>5133816
I know it's the right word, I've just never heard people throw it around. Dim sum seems more common.

>> No.5134588

>>5128950
if I say "I want to eat in a buffet" I still can't say "buffet food sucks, I've tried it and it's bad"

same way I can say "I want to eat dim sum" and I can't say "dim sum sucks, I've tried it and it's bad" since it's more of a mode of consuming food rather than the food itself

>> No.5135063

>>5133860
It is a funny things when what you calls english is a bullshit.

>> No.5136270

>>5134588
I dunno, I think whoever you talk to when you say 'dim sum' they are gonna think of the same range of dishes, while buffets just kinda serve whatever they want. Maybe there are people out there that hate har gao with all their heart, but a light has gone out in their souls

>>5131597
oh fuck is it actually easy to get hash from the mansions? While i was visiting fam in hong kong all i wanted to do was get way stoned and go to tsui wah, the greatest chain restaurant of all time.

>> No.5136323

>>5136270
I keep a birdhouse in my soul.

>> No.5136355

>>5136323
while you're at it, leave the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul.

>> No.5136376

>>5128118
>bland as fuck
Stop smoking/dousing everything in hot sauce

>> No.5136443

>>5136270
easier than it needs to be
some random pakis hit me up while I was chilling in the sitting area of Lan Kwai Fong, and they were like "dude you want some hash?"
and I was like "uhh, maybe, but I don't have money on me right now"
they said first one's free, took me out to a slightly more remote area, and smoked me out, told me if I wanted to buy some another night I could find them at the seven eleven on the corner near Mirador Mansions any night.

tsui wah is pretty good, I had a bomb ass pork chop sandwich and beef shoulder which tasted like yakiniku except better

>> No.5136445

>>5136443

What are the penalties for drugs in HK?

>> No.5136457

>>5136445
I was told that they don't give a shit about foreigners who use
HK is a country with enough problems and a serious enough police force that they focus on shit that actually matters and let's the rest of the city handle itself

>> No.5136455
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5136455

>>5136445
Death.

>> No.5136461

>>5136457

You mean your pakistani drug dealer told you that?

>> No.5136466

>>5136461
no, a cocaine-addicted filipino immigrant who wants to join a triad because she can't find work anymore told me

>> No.5136471

>>5136466

lol

you mean a prostitute you met on lockhart road

>> No.5136476

>>5136471
she wasn't a prostitute, she was just a size queen who I met after casually greeting some darkie outside aforementioned seven eleven

>> No.5136482

>>5136476
>she

you sure? people who call themselves "size queens" usually aren't.

>> No.5136485

>>5136482
do you know what a size queen is? she didn't call herself that, I just surmised it from the fact that every single dude she greeted was African. she reminded me of the white girls back home

now, if you want me to talk about filipino ladyboys, I can tell you what happened in bangkok after I left hong kong

>> No.5136489

>>5136485

while that sounds fascinating, I think we're technically on the food and cooking board. don't let me stop you though.

>> No.5136501

>>5136443
yeah i have no idea how tsui wah make so much stuff to at least a decent standard.

my girlfriend ordered a steak from there once and they asked how rare she wanted it on a 1-14 scale

the pepper sauce it came with tasted like it had oyster sauce in it or something

pretty good tho

>>5136485

I dunno man, maybe she just had a bunch of immigrant friends. : D

>> No.5136507

>>5136501
well she dated at least one of them, and I wasn't about to ask how many of them she's had inside her at one time

>> No.5136558

>>5136485
>now, if you want me to talk about filipino ladyboys, I can tell you what happened in bangkok after I left hong kong
Do tell....

>> No.5136620

>>5136558
it's not that exciting, really, I just looked for locals to meet up with through CouchSurfing and I ended up going out for a drink with two English teachers from the flips who looked mostly female but also had dicks. they acted pretty much like regular women except slightly more down-to-earth and open about their horniness and sex lives. At the end of the night, one of them started interrogating me
"What do you think of ladyboys"
"Have you ever been with a ladyboy"
"What would it take for you to go home with a ladyboy"
"How long is your dick"
I mean, there was no subtlety in it, but I have a gf and he/she was trying to text some other guy to come down to clown, and didn't go on the attack on me until it was clear that there were no other options that night, so my mix of faith to my gf and sense of pride outweighed my curiosity, so I decided not to make a move

Sorry the story's not that interesting. I have more surreal tales from that brief trip

>> No.5136632

>>5136620

lame. next time no ladyboy stories unless you fucked or got fucked by one.

>> No.5136636

>>5136632
even if I did go for it it wouldn't have been an exciting story
>so I got hard, stuck my dick in a trap's ass, came in it, felt ashamed, and went home, the end