dumpling bar

This week's latest restaurant outing was dinner at Po's Dumpling Bar. If you want dim sum eats at any time of the day, any day of the week, this is the place. Although it doesn't have the whole range of dim sum delicacies, its selection of dumplings (as appetizers, mostly) will suffice for those once-in-a-while-dim-sum-cravings.
We were STARVING when we got to the restaurant. The little plate of pickled cabbages held us over for about two minutes before we were agonizing for real food. And if you haven't figured it out by now, that dark liquid is a blend of vinegar/soy sauce for the dumplings, and the red oily stuff is just hot oil crushed red peppers.

Our dumpling selections: Above - Chicken Emperor Dumplings; Below - Cha Su Bun (okay, so this is not a dumpling, but it's a dim sum staple)

Above: Shu Mai (pork dumplings); Below: Har Gow (shrimp dumplings)

Above, a food interpretation of what my face would look like if I had taken a picture of myself. All the dumplings were good, and the straightness of the Emperor's Dumpling represents my mouth being full from stuffing it with dumplings.

We finished off our meal with a plate of mini red bean sesame seed balls. Not only were they cute to look at, they were just the right size to quell a sweet tooth (okay, it took two to quell the sweet tooth).