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I've been thinking lately - Dim Sum, is definitely not worth the price.
For those who don't know what Dim Sum is, well, in short, it is chinese breakfast. Basically, you go into a chinese restaurant, and they seat your party, which then gets a checklist on a piece of paper for the table.
Once everyone is comfy, workers at the restaurant push these carts around. On the carts, there are a bunch of goodies on it. The people pick what they want to eat, and the person pushing the cart marks down what you had, and then at the end, you pay. Every cart has something different, so you can pick and choose what you want.
Each dish costs between $3-$6, and you can get a lot of different things, from really good stuff like BBQ Beef Buns to disgusting things like Cow Tripe and Chicken Feet. Each dish usually serves 3 people. So say, a dish comes, it'll have 3 shrimp balls in it. Or 3 Beef Buns. They make it three because hardly any group consists of 3 people. Either they are one or two couples, or they are a party of several people. I mean, come on, who is happy to go as the third wheel to these things?
This becomes a problem, because when there are four people, and the shrimp balls or whatever only come in 3's, it forces your group to order two orders of whatever you are eating, thereby making it so if each person has one, there are 2 left over. Just to throw you off, occasionally they will have a dish that comes around that contains 5 items instead of 3. And the Chinese people snicker at you all in the back of the kitchen as they make money hand over fist.
This has led me to the conclusion that Dim Sum, although a great Chinese-Western tradition, and good eatin' to boot, is a rip off of epic proportions only second to Sushi. Every Dim Sum event that I've been to has cost me at least 20 bucks. Not only that, but most of it is really oily, making you feel like you've just had fast food for breakfast.
So in conclusion, Dim Sum is NOT worth the price. But I will continue to go - and I'm going tomorrow, because it is on her dime, and not mine.
