Dim Sum With Ted

[Ralph]

Spring seems to be arriving here and today was brightened by a very enjoyable White Plains dim sum lunch with Ted Baylis. We chatted about the world, the nation...and CMG.

Always a pleasure to break dumplings with him.

[Ted]

As you can see by his picture taken immediately after dining, Ralph is looking fit as a fiddle

A very enjoyable and satisfying luncheon indeed

[living_stradivarius]

What is your favorite Dim Sum dish?

[Madame]

Innovative thought of the moment: Swiss Army Chopsticks

Is this what you had in mind?

[Ralph]

What is your favorite Dim Sum dish?

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Sticky rice with Chinese sausage wrapped in lotus leaf. But I love many dishes.

[Barry]

I'm a baked roast pork pie or bun (in puff pastry) man myself.

I'm due for some dim sum too.

[Febnyc]

Barry - the pork buns (puff pastry type) are my favorites also. There's a restaurant (it bears no discernible name) on the West Side of Mott Street, just a few doors north of Canal Street, in NYC's chinatown which, far and away, is the pleasure palace of puffy pork pastry buns.

[Barry]

Barry - the pork buns (puff pastry type) are my favorites also. There's a restaurant (it bears no discernible name) on the West Side of Mott Street, just a few doors north of Canal Street, in NYC's chinatown which, far and away, is the pleasure palace of puffy pork pastry buns.

I'm going to find that place one of these days, Frank. They're hard to find here. A few of the Chinatown places in Philly that serve dim sum serve them, but as far as I can tell, only on Sundays. The dim sum selection at these places is not as good the rest of the week, although they do serve it every day.
When I first moved to Chinatown about three years ago, I was practically living on the regular bbq pork buns that you find at any Chinese bakery. At 50 or 60 cents per bun, it was was an amazing deal and I love the way they taste. I had to start watching myself though. Those things do show up on the wasteline if you eat too many of them.

[Ted]

I’ve been rather lucky with Dim sum, For 18 years while working in the city my friend and art director, a Hong Kong born and raised Chinese American –
a gourmet Cantonese cook in his own rite- would take me to places in Chinatown where I was the only non-Asian… he’d do all the ordering
Today I’m fortunate, Ralph has excellent taste and for the 2nd time I was happy to let him pay er and order —
An interesting note (to me anyway) about the places Simon took me to….First of all they weren’t really restaurants in the sense that they weren’t open to the ordinary public—when you ordered tea, it was poured out of a porcelain tea pot “heavily sugared” which was fine with me, and as Simon said “That how we like it” I used to tease him incessantly about his Chinese accent—great lad that Simon (Sing Lo) and very talented

[Ralph]

Barry - the pork buns (puff pastry type) are my favorites also. There's a restaurant (it bears no discernible name) on the West Side of Mott Street, just a few doors north of Canal Street, in NYC's chinatown which, far and away, is the pleasure palace of puffy pork pastry buns.

I'm going to find that place one of these days, Frank. They're hard to find here. A few of the Chinatown places in Philly that serve dim sum serve them, but as far as I can tell, only on Sundays. The dim sum selection at these places is not as good the rest of the week, although they do serve it every day.
When I first moved to Chinatown about three years ago, I was practically living on the regular bbq pork buns that you find at any Chinese bakery. At 50 or 60 cents per bun, it was was an amazing deal and I love the way they taste. I had to start watching myself though. Those things do show up on the wasteline if you eat too many of them.

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I know the place-I'll take you there.

[Barry]

Barry - the pork buns (puff pastry type) are my favorites also. There's a restaurant (it bears no discernible name) on the West Side of Mott Street, just a few doors north of Canal Street, in NYC's chinatown which, far and away, is the pleasure palace of puffy pork pastry buns.

I'm going to find that place one of these days, Frank. They're hard to find here. A few of the Chinatown places in Philly that serve dim sum serve them, but as far as I can tell, only on Sundays. The dim sum selection at these places is not as good the rest of the week, although they do serve it every day.
When I first moved to Chinatown about three years ago, I was practically living on the regular bbq pork buns that you find at any Chinese bakery. At 50 or 60 cents per bun, it was was an amazing deal and I love the way they taste. I had to start watching myself though. Those things do show up on the wasteline if you eat too many of them.

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I know the place-I'll take you there.

I'll be in touch . I expect to be up there at least a little more often now that one of my closest friends has moved from Philly to Brooklyn.

[living_stradivarius]

Innovative thought of the moment: Swiss Army Chopsticks

Is this what you had in mind?

Very nice visual interpretation Madame!
But what will the customers say when they read "Johnny Depp not included?"