HONG KONG: Dim Sum, Evolve or Die?

I love small or bite-sized offerings of food. They afford variety, so instead of having just one big portion of one type of food like steak, I can enjoy several dishes with different flavors and textures in one meal. This is why sushi, dim sum, and tapas are among my favorite foods in the world.

Dim sum was about more than just the food. It was about the experience – the experience of enjoying these tasty Chinese morsels for brunch on a Sunday with friends, many of whom I hadn’t seen in a while. We’d catch up, laugh, talk about the old times over steaming bamboo basktes of siu mai and har gow. It wasn’t something we did often which is part of the reason why it was so special.

I recently spent a couple of days in Hong Kong so I did some research to find the best yum cha experiences in…