It seems my parents like the Chinese Buffet type restaurants now instead of the Dim Sum restaurants. Is this true of other Chinese people. Is the Chinese Buffet type restaurants more popular than Dim Sum restaurants? Or is it because my parents are old (I noticed that old people tend to like buffet styled restaurants)?
Is Dim Sum not popular anymore?
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I prefer dim sum, but I'm not Chinese
Food tends to be better and depending on who you go with, cheaper.
Food tends to be better and depending on who you go with, cheaper.
Adul
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Thought that was the other way round. Older folks usually like to have dim sum while taking their tea and reading newspaper. It takes them forever to get out of the shop. Not sure how true that is elsewhere, but it's quite common in Hong Kong.
Chines Buffets are all you can eat.
Dim sum is when you need to change the batteries in your calculator.
Originally posted by: Juleebabee
I think both are great...although I haven't been to either in a while. I still think all-you-can-eat sushi is the best.
amen to that!
all-u-can-eat spider rolls and dragon rolls rock
not to mention eel-cucumber... mmmmmmmmm...... donuts -- i mean... eel....
I just took a trip to Canada this morning for Dim Sum. As usual, the food was great and border officers were jerks.
Dim Sum is completely different then most Chinese buffets..
Dim Sum is more.. traditional? Buffets you just get piles of sesame chicken and things like that.. Dim Sum you get foods like chicken legs (mmmmmm), pastries, soups, desserts, dumplings..
Usually much much better.
Dim Sum they also come around with different carts and you pick off each one.. usually have a bunch of different carts all going around. Each has so much good stuff on them..
Dim Sum is more.. traditional? Buffets you just get piles of sesame chicken and things like that.. Dim Sum you get foods like chicken legs (mmmmmm), pastries, soups, desserts, dumplings..
Usually much much better.
Dim Sum they also come around with different carts and you pick off each one.. usually have a bunch of different carts all going around. Each has so much good stuff on them..
dim sum is SO expensive. all you can eat buffets you get crap for food but you can eat your money's worth.
for example: dim sum dishes range from (depends on the restaurant) 1.50 to nearly 5 dollars a plate. each plate you get like what, a serving per person if you go with four people.
all you can eat buffet - 8.99 and you grab whatever you want. sacrifice some taste to save money. plus they'll have things like fried rice, noodles, other chinese style dishes like sweet and sour pork and so on, along with soup, the rice porridge, and some places may have dim sum too. (but the quality will SERIOUSLY suck)
plus some buffets will not charge you for drinks - dim sum, at many places, charge a "tea fee" which is an extra .75 per person.
for example: dim sum dishes range from (depends on the restaurant) 1.50 to nearly 5 dollars a plate. each plate you get like what, a serving per person if you go with four people.
all you can eat buffet - 8.99 and you grab whatever you want. sacrifice some taste to save money. plus they'll have things like fried rice, noodles, other chinese style dishes like sweet and sour pork and so on, along with soup, the rice porridge, and some places may have dim sum too. (but the quality will SERIOUSLY suck)
plus some buffets will not charge you for drinks - dim sum, at many places, charge a "tea fee" which is an extra .75 per person.
Dim sum is my favourite. There are places that do offer it cheaper per plate, but in the end, you get what you pay for. Dim sum overall is more expensive and less filling than eating dinner, but you do get a lot of variety.
If I'm spending $20-$30 on dim sum and the food sucks, I'd rather spend the extra $7-10 and treat myself well.
If you want to just be full, sure, some restaurants' chinese buffets are edible. But then again a loaf of bread is only 99c!
Of course though, can't eat like a king every day!
BTW, I started ordering my own dim sum when I was only 7yrs old, when I went every weekend with my gramp!
If I'm spending $20-$30 on dim sum and the food sucks, I'd rather spend the extra $7-10 and treat myself well.
If you want to just be full, sure, some restaurants' chinese buffets are edible. But then again a loaf of bread is only 99c!
Of course though, can't eat like a king every day!
BTW, I started ordering my own dim sum when I was only 7yrs old, when I went every weekend with my gramp!
My mom loves that stuff. I never go with her because 1) I think it is too expensive and 2) people dragging carts around with food on them looks stupid to me.
Well, my parents have been going to chinese buffet places for a while... and recently I took my dad back to a dim sum place in Flushing. *yum*
He was impressed at the quality of the food and severely cheap price. $5-6 a plate (3 people) and we were more than full.
Every time we go to some new, "hot" chinese buffet place I always get the same things because their menus are basically all the same and the quality of the food is always mediocre and catered toward an American palate rather than toward authenticity. wow, long sentence...
If you go to Toronto... their dim sum ROX0rZ!!!
The onus of dim sum restaurants from what my parents tell me (Taiwanese) is that it because dim sum is generally "snack food", which is what "dim sum" means, most people don't wanna go. It's also more of a Cantonese thing.
He was impressed at the quality of the food and severely cheap price. $5-6 a plate (3 people) and we were more than full.
Every time we go to some new, "hot" chinese buffet place I always get the same things because their menus are basically all the same and the quality of the food is always mediocre and catered toward an American palate rather than toward authenticity. wow, long sentence...
If you go to Toronto... their dim sum ROX0rZ!!!
The onus of dim sum restaurants from what my parents tell me (Taiwanese) is that it because dim sum is generally "snack food", which is what "dim sum" means, most people don't wanna go. It's also more of a Cantonese thing.
Geekbabe
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I think you get a broader selection with Dim Sum,the buffets seem to be filled with the lower cost filler up type dishes imho.
I'm not chinese, but I love going to have dimsum. I don't find it that expensive. If the food is good, then I don't mind paying for it.
Yeah, I stopped going to those ~$10 all you can eat places. The only thing worth eating at those places are the crab legs, but they're usually way too salty.
For a "good" chinese buffet place, try East Buffet in New York. It's expensive, but it's worth it if you fill up on the pricy items (lobster, abalone, peking duck, assorted shellfish, etc) and avoid the traditional carry out items.
If you are really Chinese, you cook the traditional food from the region where your family originally came from.
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