There's no right or wrong way to eat a dumpling.
Good morning! We're in Chinatown in San Francisco
and we're gonna show you today our Top 4 Places for Dim Sum in SF!
First stop is Good Mong
Kok Bakery down on Stockton. So we just picked up our food, we got 2 orders of har gao, we
got an order of siu mai, we also got the good wife pastry, we also got the baked char siu
bao, which is a baked barbecue pork bun. Only for $10! What a steal! How much??? $10!!!
WHAT!?!?! So everything here comes in an order of 3 so that's why we got 6 har gao, because
I love har gao. These are huge! Mmm! Very easy to bite and very tender. They're so fresh.
Here's the siu mai. The siu mai is giant! And it's full of meat in there, wow! Mmm!
Wow only you could eat a siu mai in 2 bites. Oh my god! They're well known for their barbecue
pork buns here, we got it baked because I like it baked. All that pork! Barbecue pork!
Pretty good ratio, look. Bread-to-meat. I'm sure we've all had experiences where you bite
into the bun and it's just 99% bun and 1% tiny bit of meat in the middle. And this is
the wife pastry. Mmm! This is almost comparable to the place I had it when I was in Macao.
Very little flake on top, that's how you know it's good. So I know we didn't order too much
food here, but everything was so good and amazing as always and I definitely highly
recommend this place. And there's no seating inside but you can always definitely go to
a boba shop like we did and just order a drink and eat. OK, so this is Hong Kong Lounge I,
this one is different from Hong Kong Lounge II. The menu is different. I definitely think
this place is better, the menu is better, the food is better. And there's a better selection
and more variety of food. An easy way to remember it is that Hong Kong Lounge I is #1 and Hong
Kong Lounge II is #2. And first things first, always start off with siu mai. So tender,
look at that! Good balance of shrimp and pork. Mmm! Oh it's hot! We definitely prefer steamed
items, such as steamed chicken feet and steamed pork ribs. So the difference between the egg
yolk bun and the custard bun is that the middle is completely different. Literally like an
egg yolk! Overall, Hong Kong Lounge I is a great spot for dim sum in San Francisco. This
is Good Luck Dim Sum in the Inner Richmond on Clement Street. It's a bit of a hole-in-the-wall,
but it's very affordable and has amazing dim sum. You wouldn't come here for amazing service
or cool interior design, but you would come here for great food. Just got the food, it
cost $20.40 for a ton of stuff. There are some tables where you can sit in the back,
but it's primarily a to-go dim sum place. Gonna head home now and meet Micaela and eat
this food! Back at home now with our Good Luck Dim Sum, we got quite the haul here.
What I love about takeout dim sum is that you can be at home eating it, watching TV,
without all the line and craziness of a restaurant. It's much quieter here, too. So quickly going
through what we got, we'll show them all, but we got 2 pork siu mai, 2 shrimp dumplings,
2 steamed pork dumplings, 2 beef siu mai, 2 turnip cakes, and also a sharkfin dumpling
(it's not real sharkfin). We also got a baked barbecue pork bun. The buns here all come
in a bag, because I don't know, cheaper I guess! And then there's 2 egg yolk buns, very
heavy and dense. And we got a lo mei gei, which is a chicken-rice wrapped in a lotus
leaf. Everything here cost us $20.40 and what I like about this place is that they advertise
things on their menu as "Buy 3 for $2.55," but you can buy 1 piece of $0.85. So you can
save money if you're like us and you just want 2 pieces, not 3. You when it's good?
When the skin here is very thin and it's a lot of shrimp. Because I've been to other
takeout places where the skin is very thick and you feel like you're just eating the skin
of a dumpling and not actually a dumpling. So, would recommend! Beef siu mai here. Wow!
That's just loaded with beef and chive. Makes your breath smell good ;) And we're just about
finishing up eating our dim sum and I definitely would highly recommend this place if you're
looking for a takeout dim sum. Where you just wanna chill at home and eat. They definitely
have seating there, but it's not the comfortable, so it's best to take it out. You want authentic?
This is authentic... and cheap! Onto the next dim sum place! And last, but certainly not
least on our list is Dragon Beaux. It's by far the most luxurious and upscale place that
we're going to talk about, but what you're paying for is the best service, best presentation,
and the best food. So we got the baked barbecue pork buns here, they're different, they have
this really crispy thing on top, I don't know it's super good, I had it last time and it
was amazing. It's crunchy but it still has barbecue pork in the middle. We also got the
chicken paw, also known as chicken feet. We got traditional spareribs, they're steamed,
super good. And we still have more food coming. And this is their most popular item, this
is the Five Guys Xiao Long Bao, so we have the regular one here, it's white, and you
have turmeric, beet, a squid ink one, truffle, and then spinach, we just got the sea bass
dumpling. Oh it's Chilean sea bass, it's not like regular sea bass. But it's mixed in with
shrimp, so it's like a har gao with some sea bass on top. So juicy! You get a spoon and
nibble the side of it, pour the soup out and drink the soup and then eat the dumpling.
You can eat it however you want! It's fine! There's no right or wrong way to eat a dumpling.
Oh my god! Mmm! You can taste the truffle. This barbecue char siu bao is different from
other places, look how much filling it is there. So much more meat. Everything has been
absolutely on point during this meal. Chicken feet is delicious and juicy. The shrimp rice
noodle has a ton of shrimp in it and a nice sweet, rice noodle flavor. The Five Guys XLB,
super juicy in the middle and all the special flavors that each of the 5 have come out really
strong. And even though Dragon Beaux is pricey, I seriously think this is the best dim sum
you can get in the city. Overall, it cost $79 for the 2 of us here. And just to put
that into context, we paid $10 for the dim sum that we got in Chinatown at Good Mong
Kok, but to be fair, we also ordered a lot more here and you also really do get what
you pay for here. That's gonna do it for our list of our 4 favorite dim sum spots in San
Francisco ranging from hole-in-the-wall to more upscale places, let us know in the comments
if you've been to any of these places and what you thought about them or if we missed
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