A Note About Dim Sum…

Dim Sum: heart’s delight, touching your heart, a little token. These are just some of the definitions of the Chinese breakfast meal that is composed of many small, delicious dishes. With this blog, it is my intent to offer tasty morsels of interior design, my passion and my vocation, and all things associated with…….travel, gardens, entertaining, books, antiques, and, of course, accessories.

 

My first real dim sum was in Hong Kong on a first trip to Asia with my husband in the late ’90s. We ate in a typical large, noisy, over-lit, crowded restaurant that was famous for its dim sum. Not being able to speak Cantonese we looked around at the other diners for some direction and then pointed to dishes as they were wheeled over to us. We had many delicious tastes and even picked chicken feet apparently! This is a considered treat but was somewhat of a shock to us. My husband, ever adventuresome, ate the whole portion.

 

Unbeknownst to us at the time we would move to Singapore just three years later for a very interesting career opportunity for my husband. Since then we have had numerous dim sum opportunities from the large family restaurants we first experienced in HK to the very elegant, subdued and beautifully decorated. One of our very favorites in Singapore is the Golden Palace which is a Teochew restaurant.