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T & S Chinese Restaurant 
Dim Sum


If you have never tried it before, Dim Sum is  a style of Chinese food prepared as small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. Dim sum is also well known for the unique way it is served in some restaurants, wherein fully cooked and ready-to-serve dim sum dishes are carted around the restaurant for customers to choose their orders while seated at their tables. 

Although this particular restaurant did not look like much from the outside, we quite enjoyed the multiple dishes that we plucked from carts as they passed by.  

Our particular favorite was a sort of steamed pork dumpling and the deep fried shrimp balls.  We also found the fried taro root turnover to be refreshingly different, yet still very tasty.  

We weren't too fond of the eggplant dish, but we aren't really a fan of eggplant to begin with so that wasn't too surprising.  

Some other plates we had included a sticky sweet rice with Chinese sausage, steamed BBQ pork buns and large flat noodles with shrimp.

There were too many options for us to try them all and we were actually too timid to try the chicken feet or shark fin.  Maybe next time?

Dim sum was a fun experience for us and everyone should try it at least once.  To us, the dishes often tasted differently from what they looked like and it was a very entertaining dining experience where we learned a lot.  We became knowledgeable in how to eat certain foods (some were very slippery!), how to ask what certain things were BEFORE pointing at them (otherwise they'd end up on our table and tab), and how to NOT pick dishes that we've seen on the cart before (as they're cold by the 2nd time around).

All in all, it was a great experience and a very filling meal on a dreary, rainy day.  We must definitely return to try everything we couldn't fit in today!

MuMu Score:

Close, but no cigar!