Comments on: Downtown Lunch: Dim Sum at Golden Unicorn

By: Yvo

Yvo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:10:03 +0000

I prefer the stewed/saucy kind of tripe (as Danny knows!) – the “bitter” vegetable is that giant… radish… Why is the name escaping me? Oh, right, because it’s 2am and I’ve been drinking.
And funny, Wendy and I go way back… I WANT TO BE INVITED TO THE NEXT DL!!! >P

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:14:51 +0000

Great looking photos! I can never get yum cha/dim sum food to come out looking like this. At places like Jing Fong, they’re always pink… at other places it’s always dark…

And you ate chicken feet! Congratulations! I agree about the tripe being next. Either the white kind or the stewed kind.

By: Diana Pappas

Diana Pappas — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:08:31 +0000

Gosh this has me craving Chinese food so badly…. nice post, Daniel, and the photos are terrific.

By: AL@1PP

AL@1PP — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:52:34 +0000

Next time you guys go, on the weekend, check out the dessert carts, and see if they got these green pudding cups or green looking fried pastries ;-) get those.

I always get the tripe, it comes in two types, the plain white ones which has little taste, but great with chili sauce, and the dark stuff that comes in a bowl with this bitter tasting vegetable that looks like a potato but it’s not. That’s the one to get.

I love chrysanthemum tea, but for dim sum, I like to get a chrysanthemum / black tea mix, no sugar of course.

By: wEnDy

wEnDy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:26:23 +0000

Daniel: Thanx for the invite again! We’ll get tripe next time…bwahaha…=)

AL@1PP: We had Chrysanthemum Tea w/ no sugar…that just has to be specified, otherwise it’s way too sweet.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:12:38 +0000

Wayne – I’m not into tripe but if I can eat chicken feet I may try it at some point.

Mamacita – We also had another order of buns and the shrimp shumai, both decent but not earth shattering.

AL@1PP – that’s one thing I didn’t realize, that you had a choice of tea..Wendy had ordered our tea in Chinese so I don’t know which it was. I normally just drink whatever they bring…but the tea was particularly good come to think about it so I will let her field that question when she comes to comment here.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:10:02 +0000

Oh cool! I was just there last Saturday for a wedding banquet. The food was quite good too. But I haven’t been back for dim sum for a while. But from what I remember it wasn’t too bad. And yeah the weekend or a holiday is usually when you’d go for dim sum.

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:10:15 +0000

No Bossman, not this time. Shame on you, trying to hijack a yum cha thread.

Dan, no tripe?

By: Mamacita

Mamacita — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:09:33 +0000

Bossman, hush! Before we get in trouble.

So what else did you eat Daniel? I’ve done Dim Sum in Brooklyn’s Chinatown, at Pacificana. If you want to check that out, I’d love some company. Did you have suckling pig? I missed out on that in my last trip.

By: AL@1PP

AL@1PP — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:02:18 +0000

that’s all you ate? 4 things? 4 small things at that. that’s appetizer.

More importantly, what tea did you drink?