Koi Palace

Sept 29, 2007 - It was a beautiful Saturday morning. The sun was shining and the sky was just a perfect, clear, blue. Not the slightest puff of white in sight. We were in the perfect mood for dim sum!

I've yet to hear a really negative review about dim sum at Koi Palace. There's always a line. So far we've been pretty lucky and have managed to get there early enough for the line not to be too excruciatingly long.

This time was we waiting for our table we stood right by the front where an older gentleman was making Dragon Beard Candy. It was really pretty fascinating, check it out on youtube.

We didn't have too long or maybe that's just how it seemed because we were so mesmerized by the candy making. The three of us were seated at a full round table for eight. They seemed not to mind at all and seems it's typical for them to do that. Guess there are never enough small tables. We were seated and the food started coming right away.

So this time we got plenty of stuff since there were three of us and we were there for so long. We got: crab dumplings, ham sui gok, fried tofu, xiao lung bao, chow mein, shrimp stuffed mushrooms, beef cheung fun, bean curd rolls, egg custard tarts with yeen wo on top, bo lo bao, and dao fu fa.

Everything was yummy. This was the first time we got the yeen wo dan tat. My friend even tried it and wasn't totally grossed out when we told her what it was. Cool. The cheung fun was fine though I thought it wasn't smooth enough. The xiao lung bao were properly filled with soup. The yeen wo dan tat had a lovely coconut flavor to them though they weren't warm by the time we got them. Finally, my new fave, dao fu fa was delish! So smooth and the liquid was just perfectly sweet enough. It was yum!

After a while there seemed to be a lull in the food circulation. We seemed to see the same things pass by multiple times and nothing new came out. We wondered if it was supposed to go in cycles but we waited a long time and finally just started in on desserts. That seemed strange. We wondered when new food would be coming out but were not interested in waiting. Otherwise, service was fine. The brought my friend her water and refilled it a couple of times. The check was quickly collected when we gave the nod and returned promptly.

So far not a bad experience. Oh so yummy and definitely worth the wait.