There’s always lots of variety, and the food is usually fresh because of the high volume and turnover. When we take people there who have never been, they are always shocked by the size of the restaurant and by the number of people packed in. Jing Fong, though, is always a great experience. There are lots of dim sum places in the city with varying reviews and we haven’t tried them all. They also cleared our table of empty steamer baskets frequently. They kept our teapot filled and gave us a pitcher of ice water for the table when they saw how thirsty we were. After tax and tip, I think we each paid about $12. I don’t know how much each dish is, but our bill for all the food was ridiculously tiny. When you pick out the stuff that you want from the cart, they put stamps on your scorecard indicating the number and the size of the dish you picked. The ladies who push around the dim sum carts don’t speak a lot of english, but we managed to get by with a mix of english and my mangled mandarin. I also wanted some egg tarts for dessert but all the dessert carts were pretty bare by the time they got to us, so we settled for the sesame balls. We did see and pass on chicken feet though. I was actually hoping to get some tripe, which they prepare very well at Jing Fong, but sadly it never came around. We actually got a few orders of each dish so we were pretty stuffed by the end of our meal. Here’s a rundown of what we got:ĭessert: deep fried sesame balls - the inside is chewy mochi filled with sweet lotus or bean paste We basically just pointed at whatever looked good, keeping in mind that one person in our group was a pescetarian, so we got a lot of shrimp and/or veggie items. It was a pretty good spot, and there were lots of carts coming around. We were a group of five so we wound up with our own table, in the right hand corner just opposite the kitchen. Just remember to take your card with you! There’s also a long table set up in the middle of the room, by the back wall, where they have prepared foods such as sauteed chinese broccoli or steamed clams in black bean sauce that you can pick up. Then you just have to carry your steaming baskets back to your table. Otherwise, you have to go with the aggressive route, which is taking your “scorecard” and waiting with a bunch of other people outside the kitchen, waiting to pounce at the carts as soon as they come out. When you end up in the far corner away from the kitchen, usually you’re options are mostly just tripe and chicken feet, which isn’t bad if you like those items. Ideally you want to sit near the kitchen (the right side of the long room, parallel to where the escalators are) because the carts that come out there have the freshest food and are stocked with more items. Huge line of people waiting to get in when we left It’s not too awkward, the tables are big and you can either talk to your table-mates or not. If you have a small group (ie., 2-3 people), you generally end up having to share a table with other people. Once you get up the escalator, it’s just a massive space packed to the brim with tables, all of which are full. There was a pretty long wait by the time we left though. Luckily we got there in time and were seated right away. If you don’t get there early enough, there’s a huge line, which is impressive considering how BIG the place is. Josh had a coworker in town one Sunday who wanted to try dim sum, so we knew exactly where to take him.ĭim sum at Jing Fong on the weekend is pretty crazy. As with most of our favorite Chinatown destinations, since we’ve moved uptown, we just haven’t been around as often. It is also where we held our rehearsal dinner the night before our wedding, a banquet style dinner that resulted in a lot of people eating jellyfish, accidentally mistaking the long chewy strands for noodles (we didn’t tell them what it was until after they ate it and enjoyed it). It’s been our go-to place for dim sum ever since we moved into the city, and was where we ate right before Josh proposed. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to write about Jing Fong, the ginormous dim sum restaurant in Chinatown, considering that it’s a place that has a lot of meaning for me and Josh.
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