On Saturday we went with some colleagues at work to a Dim Sum restaurant in Richmond. This was my first experience of this form of Chinese cuisine. It involves eating assorted light dishes, in our case a large number of the dishes. Each dish was little more than a bite, so we had a very wide range of tastes and textures. I have lost count of the number of different things we tried, but it was over a dozen
We arrived at 1pm, just as the main rush of morning diners were leaving, so we did not have to wait for a table. The servers circulated round the room with trays of delicacies; if we accepted the proffered food they would stamp a receipt on our table. At the end of the meal this was used to calculate the final total which, tip included was just over $16 a head.
The restaurant was in an Asian mall, fully of Far Eastern shops and places to eat. The largest store was an Asian grocery store, full of strange foods, an entire aisle of noodles, and a live fish counter. There was a BBQ section that alongside the ribs and other familiar cuts of meats, there were such oddities as duck feet and duck wings. My sole purchase, however, was of something that will sound a lot less exotic to readers in the UK. It was the not very Asian sounding McVities Digestive biscuits; which I have not seen here in the US. The packaging was clearly intended for the Chinese market as it addition to the familiar lettering there were Chinese symbols.
