Christmas Tradition: Dim Sum! by Don Sefton/Catering Events Manager
It is an annual tradition in our house on Christmas to go out for dim sum for breakfast and then catch a matinee movie. (“Avatar” was great!) This year was no different. Our favorite place for dim sum is Sun Ya in the International District. We love Sun Ya the best, not only because you can sit down and have a wonderful steaming cart of food at your side by the time you take your coat off, but we find that they have the freshest food, very reasonable, a very large variety, and it is not nearly as greasy and oily as many other restaurants.
We started out with sticky rice, Chinese broccoli, and bean curd (photo right). I think that sticky rice is the benchmark for the standards in a Chinese restaurant, and this is certainly one of the best that I have ever had! The rice comes wrapped and steamed in a leaf and has the ubiquitous little Chinese sausage nugget in the center. The rice is perfect every single time and has just the right amount of gluten for all of the grains to want to stick together, but not too mushy, yet not overdone. The Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce is always perfectly steamed and crunchy with just the right amount of oyster sauce. The bean curd rolls are always marvelous, and I think this was the best ever! Nice and hot with the usual slightly sticky sauce. We always get these 3 items, they are so awesome.
Next we got the deep fried calamari strips which were perfectly fried and seasoned- not overdone, and came to our table directly from the kitchen (photo left). The honey-walnut prawns, I am certain, are served in heaven! The sweet mayonnaise sauce enrobing them is addicting. Our other favorite dish is the incredible mixed herb and prawn rolls- wonderful little rolls which are steamed and then a quick fry to them.
Of course, they serve pots of tea. It is also necessary to combine hte proper amount of soy sauce and hot chili paste on your plate to accent everything. We are utterly ravenous every time that we come to this great restaurant! Bliss I tell ya!
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