Dim Sum

Do you ever get a craving for dim sum? I sure do.

For those that don't know, I was a former resident of Houston, Texas. Now Houston has very little to recommend itself as a place to live (especially compared to Denver, but hey, I'm biased) other than a pretty low cost of living and (conveniently also) some good shopping. But one very important thing that Houston does have is an awesome supply of good Chinese restaurants, in all price ranges and of all types. Usually and unfortunately, as with most ethnic restaurants, the food quality is inversely proportional to the ease with which a non-Chinese speaker/reader can navigate his or her way through a meal.

Drooling from memories of eating at Golden Palace or Kim Son in Houston, I settled for The Empress. There are, arguably, better places in town for dim sum, like maybe Super Star Asian or King's Land, but they also have longer wait times for a table. We were starving, so we went to Empress and were seated immediately.

Sipping hot tea, we ate our way through small bowls of tiny little spareribs, shrimp dumplings, steamed pork thingies, sticky rice, stir-fried vegetables, and more. My favorite is the little flaky pork croissants.

Though it was no Golden Palace, at least it scratched my itch.