char siu bao
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hey g-rad.
i really love char siu bao.
what's the best place in gr to get them? any recommendations? -
ARE YOU IN GRAND RAPIDS?!
Regarding your baozi inquiry. I feel like we don't really have a chinese bakery - you can get freezer stuff from most of the asian markets, and you might be able to get some from Wei Wei Palace during dim sum - but I'm not totally sure on that.
If you find fresh stuff let me know.
Does anyone know of an asian bakery in town?
WAIT WAIT - what about the vietnamese sandwich shop next to Wei Wei? I will investigate tomorrow.
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also the more i think about i am sure wei wei dimsum has the baked kind, but i am not sure about a steamed bun - which i prefer.
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nope. i'm not in gr. i'm still in hawai‘i. i ate manapua for lunch yesterday, which are a local version of char siu bao but bigger. yum!
i'll be in gr in december, and there's a pretty good chance of me returning permanently-ish this summer, too.
dim sum should have them, they're pretty much a dim sum staple, right?
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so are we talking winter dimsum trip or what?
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whoa! maybe... it would be rad!
it's hard because i'm only there for a week and have to see a LOT of family.
last year i ended up catching a cold and missing both jenn and nathan's party and the mustard plug christmas concert. sucko week.
hopefully i can jam on the vitamin c and have more time for friends this year... -
What is the name of the Vietnamese Sandwich Shop? And where is it? I need to visit this weekend.
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It's called Ly's and it's in the Golden Bridge Plaza, which is like a megamall of asianness (home of Wei Wei Palace, Pho Soc Trang, a vietnamese karaoke video store, Kim Nhung, GR's largest Vietnamese grocery, etc.). It's on the East side of Division, just before 44th Street.
They definitely did have steam buns - but they weren't bbq pork as suspected. It was more breakfast burrito style: steamed pork, a piece of sausage, a bit of egg, peas, mushrooms. These were $2 a bun. They may have other kinds.
The woman who primarily runs the counter speaks pretty limited English, but conversation is pretty intuitive.
The big discovery of the trip:
I noticed that had packages of Taro buns (yum!) and I thought for sure they must have been from Chicago or Ann Arbor something - but when I actually looked at the label it read: China City, Chinese Bakery and Restaurant, Kentwood, MI. So apparently the area DOES have a Chinese bakery and it's on Eastern just past 52nd.
I'm definitely going to have to check this out next week when I get back from my trip.
I am very excited!
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whoa. that is exciting news. it's such a bummer that all the good asian markets and such are so far out of town. i guess it's all about migration...at least we've got the polish and mexican stores on the westside.
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Hey, so I had this and it's pretty good!
√ Char Siu Bao
√ Bhun Bao (Vietnamese style with steam pork, an egg, mushrooms and a piece of saasage - breakfast slammer)
√ Taro Buns
Definitely more of a restaurant than a Bakery from the outside, but has a little baked goods counter right at the entrance. Would like to go back for Dim Sum sometime.
When are you in town, Buck? -
ach! i was in town for the week between Christmas and new year's... i was pretty much on full-time family time, though, but i ran into jenn and nathan, which was nice.
next time i come to town, though, let's have dim sum! -
yes. let's!
Bullshit, Buck. Bullshit!
Is hawaii sick with char siu bao and other East Asian delicacies? what is local food like? -
yippee!
yes, you can pretty much get food from every east asian country (and much of the pacific) here. there are places that try to be more authentic and places that are more local. local food tends to be a fusion of chinese, japanese, korean, filipino, portuguese, western, and hawaiian. the epitome of local food is plate lunch, which is some kind of protein (hamburger steak, spam, kalbi, shrimp, steak, teriyaki, fried chicken, etc.) served with rice and macaroni salad. sometimes it comes with other sides, too, like korean pickled vegetables. another go-to local food is spam musubi. they've been doing the fusion and multicultural thing here since before it was popular or politically correct. -
oh ho ho! you got me. i wrote "GR" by force of habit, but I will be living in Allendale.
if anyone has any ideas of where i can find ultra-cheap space for office work or woodworking (or both), please let me know. Allendale, Standale, Westside, Downtown, no matter...i'm looking for ideas.
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Word on the street is that there's a new dim sum place somewhere on Eastern by 33rd. Anyone know anything about it? @dennetmint?@buckshot, did you check out that bakery yet?
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@buckshot @dennetmint would y'all be up for a group dimsum run this Sunday?What brand was that kim chee?Does anyone know how long you can keep a kim chee jar in your fridge before its completely not safe to eat?
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@George yes, please! what time were you thinking? I could get down on some dimsum...
The kim chee is Sun Yun. It should be safe for a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long time. I do know that some folks prefer to eat the fresher stuff straight and use the older crazier stuff for kim chee stew and such.
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Maybe noon or one? Was thinking of trying to get a bike ride in in the morning. @dennetmint, @pichot, @jaime: would that work for y'alls?
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can we not go so late? if it's the first meal of the day, 1 is really pushing it.
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well, it doesn't open until 11. noon?
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Noon is fine. I don't know about @dennetmint, but it won't be my first meal of the day.
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@george you realize how much dim sum food we're going to eat, yes? it will be my only meal of the day. I vote 11a. the earlier, the better.
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that's going to make it really hard to ride a bike with my dad... I will see what his plans are.
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i can't wait! I would really like to go on a bike ride too, do you know where we are riding? maybe we could get an early start somewhere near the restaurant to ride?I'm fine with something around 11 or 12. I'll let you guys battle it out :)
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so... any decision? i'm debating whether or not to go. some stuff came up that i need to work on tomorrow. also, remember that daylight saving time ends tonight, so turn back the clocks!
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@buckshot does noon work for you? is that too late? right now that seems to be the consensus. If 11is better, we could bump it up - right @dennetmint, @pichot, @jaime?Our bike riding plans have changed anyhow
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oh definitely! 11a is better for me anyhow. just remember: we're falling back in one hour, so 11a is really noon!
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woohoo! I'm glad it worked out, I can't wait for our next trip, (now that my stomach isn't as full) I'm craving sticky rice all over again :)
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Does anyone have a good recipe for sticky rice?
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@george - i can ask my mom. they used to have zongzi making parties. in the meantime, this is a blog i subscribe to, and it has a ton of recipes for the dim sum items we had or saw. there's also one or two in the taiwanese recipes section, including the clams we saw near the end.
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yes yes yes! we're excited. sadly, the Sundays of this month are pretty insane... how about early January?
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@dennetmint - when do you leave? Last night at the Drupal meetup you indicated you might be around in early jan. What's the score?
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well i might still be renting in gr, but i might be out of town for most of january. if we can't do a sunday, could we do a saturday?
cc: @pichot -
do to they have saturday dimsum? i think they might, but without the carts?
We could try out that new place too...
@dennetmint - when is your planned departure? -
Hmm... don't count on anything past Jan. 7. I might have to go to PDX and SF for work and such in January. Trying to shift it to February so I have more time in GR, but I'm not sure.
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When does new york happen?
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buck, how are you about saturdays?
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Not until January. I've got plans this week, then Christmas Eve family stuff, New Year's Eve travel stuff...so, early January weekends are pretty clear.
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