I woke up to the sound of pigeons beating themselves against the porch eaves. It was sunny, ridiculously warm and clear, beautiful for Colorado in February. Global warming or whatever. The world was ...

HOW DO YOU OPEN A DIM SUM parlor just steps from two Bay Area institutions -- Hong Kong Flower Lounge and Fook Yuen -- and succeed? It might be by serving well-prepared dishes using fresh ingredients, ...

I usually go to Star Kitchen for dim sum. And I’m not the only one. At lunch time — especially lunch time on the weekends — the restaurant is a chaotic sea of people, with families huddled around ...

Ocean Star in Monterey Park has been in service since 1982. They're a classic dim sum joint in every sense of the word: rolling carts, Cantonese servers, dim sum operation during the day and ...

When people ask me where to find vegetarian dim sum, I tell them it’d be easier to locate an Indian steakhouse or a healthy KFC. Dim sum, by its nature, is not vegetarian. Even if you avoid all the ...

Dim sum started in Canton and has long been served all over China. It’s a spinoff from the older Cantonese tradition of yum cha, a “tea-tasting” rest stop for weary travelers on the Silk Road.