{"id":8894,"date":"2013-12-28T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2013-12-28T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T22:42:20","slug":"filling-a-dim-sum-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8894","title":{"rendered":"Filling a Dim Sum Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"userpic=levys\"Back in June, I wrote about how our usual dim sum palace, Empress Pavilion in Chinatown, had given up the ghost<\/a>. This wasn’t that much of a loss, as Empress had been going downhill<\/a>. Still, it necessitated a hunt for a new place.<\/p>\n

During the summer, we foreyed out for dim sum again. I had gotten the Zagat list of top dim sum palaces in the city<\/a>, and had selected NBC Seafood<\/a>. Why? First, we had eaten there once before and I had good memories. They got decent reviews, had carts, and had a lot of parking. I had a whole chain of reasoning that, looking back, I never wrote down where I could find it again :-(.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, a friend of my wife called and wanted to go out for dim sum. Our daughter asked her friend for suggestions, and he found the KCET list<\/a>. They pushed to go to Seafood Harbour in Rosemead<\/a>,\u00a0 which lots of folks thought was the best. Although I indicated I would prefer NBC Seafood (or even trying A&W Northridge<\/a>, which is right around the corner), I was overrulled. So this morning we trudged out to Rosemead and Seafood Harbour.<\/p>\n

My opinion: I don’t think we’ve found the Empress replacement yet. Seafood Harbour certainly isn’t it.<\/p>\n

Let me start with the positives: the food was good. There was some dim sum we hadn’t seen before, and the quality of what we had was excellent. Perhaps this is why it is highly rated.<\/p>\n

Now for the negatives: parking was tighter than NBC, and due to the fact the restaurant was smaller, the wait was significantly longer (we got there at 10:30am, and were not seated until after 11:30am). There are no carts — you have to order from a picture menu, and you can do two rounds. I prefer carts — first, you may discover something new that looks tasty; second, there is less of a tendancy to over-order. More significantly, some of my favorites — plain BBQ pork and lemon tarts — we not on the menu. Further, it was harder to special order and obtain gluten-free items for my wife. I also felt that the bill total was a little high.<\/p>\n

I think that next time we’ll either go back to NBC Seafood in Monterey Park<\/a>, perhaps try Ocean Star in Monterey Park<\/a> (which is up the street from NBC), both of which are honorable mentions on the LA Weekly list<\/a>. Perhaps we’ll try the local A&W in either Northridge<\/a> or Granada Hills<\/a>.\u00a0 Another possibility is Empress Harbor<\/a>, which was on the LA Weekly list<\/a>. Elite<\/a>, which is also on many lists<\/a>, is out for being cart-less. For those reading this in Southern California: Do you have a favorite place you want to recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in June, I wrote about how our usual dim sum palace, Empress Pavilion in Chinatown, had given up the ghost. This wasn’t that much of a loss, as Empress had been going downhill. Still, it necessitated a hunt for a new place. During the summer, we foreyed out for dim sum again. I had Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8895,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}