Once again a band of us will venture out to track down and feast on the deliciousness of dim sum!
Basic InfoWhen: Sunday (Sept. 5) at 10am
at the restaurantWhere: We're going to go to the excellent restaurant ElectricTurtle originally started out with Honey Court at 516 Maynard Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98104.
How: You can get there any way you want, I will be leading a group of anyone who wants to walk from the Grand Hyatt lobby at 9:30am. Usually once we're there we pool together and take taxis back to PAX.
If you are planning on coming, please PM me to let me know so that I can give the restaurant a heads-up on our imminent invasion! Common questions
Q: How much does it cost?
A: Usually we end up paying $6-$10 per person for the food, and ~$5 for cramming together in the taxis
Q: Won't I miss PAX?
A: You'll miss a little bit, but we do generally get back by 11-11:30am latest
Q: What is dim sum?
A: "Dim sum is the Cantonese term for a type of Chinese dish that involves small individual portions of food, usually served in a small steamer basket or on a small plate." It's like tapas, or a bunch of small appetizers, and they're all delicious!
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- Nothing is vegan.
- Almost nothing is vegetarian (most of the desserts are, but the only usual non-dessert item is broccoli if you ask for it without oyster sauce).
- Almost everything has shrimp in it (at least 70% of the non-dessert items).
- Most things have pork in them (at least 50% of the non-dessert items).
- Almost all desserts have egg in them.
If all of the above things are cool by you, you should go. All of the dim sum places in IDist are at least reasonably good. You'll be surprised by how much food you get for so little money.I'll be busy working and unable to join you-all, but have fun eating.
"We know that the moment we slip, it will be taken away... and so it is of the utmost importance to be worthy of it constantly."
PAX will always be held on the best weekend for PAX. Sometimes that will be a bad weekend for you; I'm sorry.
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Ooh, Dim Sum. I heart you. But I heart coffee more.
Yeah, sorry about that, while I'd love to go to the Girls' meet-up this'll be the third year and fourth time we've been doing this (I think) so I didn't want to not have it--plus, by its nature there's a big demographic of people who can't go to that meet-up
I almost never go to legit dim sum places without someone who speak Cantonese cause I have nfc what is pig and what isn't.
I don't do the pig. Generally ends very badly for me and the unfortunate toilet that happens to be on the receiving end. LOL
- Steamed Beef Noodle (giant rice noodles wrapped around little lumps of steak; most places don't make this)
- Chicken Feet (varying degrees of yumminess depending on preparation)
- Beef Tendon (totally delicious even though it sounds kinda gross to most non-Asians)
- Barbecue chicken pastry (little filo dough pockets with chopped chicken and barbecue sauce inside)
Everything else is either all seafood (mostly shrimp, sometimes scallop or oyster), or a mix of pork and other things. Almost everything has shrimp and at least half of all things have pork.The safe bet for someone that eats no pork at a dim sum restaurant is: "If it looks like meat (brown/grey), assume it's pork."
"We know that the moment we slip, it will be taken away... and so it is of the utmost importance to be worthy of it constantly."
PAX will always be held on the best weekend for PAX. Sometimes that will be a bad weekend for you; I'm sorry.
Over here in SF, at most good dim sum place we go to, they barely speak english. It's like kicking a dead horse trying to figure shit out sometimes. I usually roll with my friends who are from HK so they know wussup... and if they don't, they just ask for me. No language issues of course.
I'll give it a go, I guess. But you guys better get my back if I'm going for some pork. LOL.
Edit: Looks like I can't make it out
Also, you will be able to identify us as a group because I will have a very large bright green flag.
EDIT: I'm sorry, I thought this said Saturday morning. I'm probably busy on Sunday. I'm out.
For those of you going, try the blood pudding, if they have it. I'll warn those who have dietary restrictions... it's pig blood.
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Just gotta make sure to avoid stuff with meat. There's enough (good) stuff that doesn't have any meat at all that I think it should be fine. Lots of seafood stuff and stuff with eggs.
It still depends what time I wake up. I live near downtown, so I'll just look for you guys at the restaurant.
Also, congratulations, and here are some links for Taipei:
http://hungryintaipei.blogspot.com/ - great food blog for any type of cuisine in Taipei
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wulai - recommend taking the MRT to Wulai - a stream from a hot springs wends its way through town and people go there to stick their feet in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Din_Tai_Fung - Best xiao lung bao in Taipei, some say the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilin_Night_Market & http://www.raohe.com.tw/e1-1.htm - night markets!
http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/html/eng/index.asp YangMingShan National Park - be sure to catch erzhiping, the butterfly corridor
http://wikitravel.org/en/Jiufen This town slopes dramatically down the coast just north east of Taipei...also nearby visit Jinguashi (Gold Mine) which, if you climb up, offers expansive views of the coast and parts of Taipei
Have fun!