![]() Chinatown-International District, 707 S King St. Dim Sum King / Seafood, Chinese 2096 of 9900 places to eat in Seattle Compare ClosedOpens at 7AM Chinese, Cantonese Good dim sum at a good price, hard to find in Seattle. Same brusque service, same 70-cent steamed BBQ pork buns. Word trickled out, business boomed and the dim sum restaurant expanded seven years ago into the space next door. Duk Li was our favorite secret hole-in-the-wall. But for these prices and for food this satisfying, I’m not complaining.īreakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Jade Garden is the Holy Grail of Seattle dim sum, but I cant, ahem, stomach the crowd with hungry children. The place is on the small side, and service ranges from sparse to harried but present. The cashew chicken ($8.95) is especially good, white meat softly sautéed with snow peas, celery and toasted cashews, and the Mandarin string beans with minced pork ($8.95) are a little bit addictive. SEATTLE DIM SUM KING FOOD FULLThe full menu offers surprising range: There are pan-fried noodles with pickled vegetables and intestines ($9.95), though I prefer the mixed seafood-perfectly cooked scallops, squid and tender white fish-with spicy XO sauce (made of dried shrimp and chiles) and two kinds of noodles ($10.95). 4. ![]() Another favorite: tender shrimp dumplings and gai lan (steamed Chinese broccoli), which we order so that we don’t feel as guilty eating the pork and chive dumplings, all of which disappear too quickly. That’s the day my dim sum loyalty changed I now crave Harbor City’s steaming dumplings filled to bursting with crab and shrimp, or shrimp with cilantro its wide rice noodles in soy sauce its fried chicken feet. And so we decided to change course and wait alongside the shivering throng to see what all the fuss was about. ![]() ![]() One cold morning last winter on the way to our usual International District dim sum haunt, my family and I had to zigzag our way through the crowd waiting outside Harbor City, a stone’s throw from our destination. ![]()
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