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Feel free to enhance the bland rice with whatever condiment you prefer. The rice inside is sticky indeed, and the saucy ground chicken serves as a tiny jewel at its heart. Partly because the leaf adds a faintly aromatic flavor to the dish, and partly because unbundling the loosely bound packet is half the fun. In the case of the steamed chicken sticky rice in lotus leaf wrapper, the wrapper almost proves more important than what's inside the package. The combination of textures and techniques elevates this bite beyond the sum of its otherwise simple parts. It's topped, not stuffed, by what might best be called a fried shrimp fritter. The slice of eggplant itself is either steamed or simply braised, and the resulting texture is soft and yielding. No wrapper is employed in the preparation of the pan-fried, shrimp-stuffed eggplant, for which a little interpretation is required. Chopped shrimp mixed with corn kernels provides the stuffing for a pan-fried version of the steamed dumplings - worth a try for the textural difference alone. Just a streak of soy sauce is appropriate here. The steamed pork dumpling, fully enclosed in a velvety envelope of a different kind, is also pure in its flavor. It's an artful package, and a dot of chili serves as both a flavor and visual accent. Steamed shrimp and pork shao mai is a dim sum classic, its tender filling revealed like the center of a flower surrounded by a petal-pleated wrapper. The diamond-scored squid also has a bit of a bite, but its flavor is inherently more assertive, the curry coming across as both subtle and sharp at the same time. Try it just as it is before automatically adding soy sauce or the restaurant's red chili condiment. Like many items on the menu, the flavor is direct and delicate, modulated only by faintly aromatic slivered scallion. The feathery white tripe has an unexpected, but not unpleasant, crunch. Here's a little help in that direction, starting with a couple of items you might not think to order: steamed beef tripe and steamed curry squid. You indicate your choices on a plastic menu with a marker, and they come out in whatever order suits the kitchen. The dining room's almost total lack of decor doesn't help in restoring romance to the occasion, either.
Sadly, COVID-19 put an end to that in many places - including at San Antonio's Dim Sum Oriental Cuisine, a Northwest Military Drive restaurant known for genuine Chinese specialties such as chicken feet and beef tripe. Dim Sum Oriental Cuisine's plain decor puts all the focus on the food.įor many, an "authentic" experience of eating Chinese food dim sum style involves dining in a room of carts bearing tantalizing bites in bamboo steamers or presented on pristine porcelain plates.
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