A Little Piece of the Heart

I've blogged before about dim sum that I have made in my own kitchen, but here in New Jersey, with very little in the way of kitchen appliances and dishes, it's pretty much impossible. I don't even have a steamer. Because of this I have to quench my dumpling craving by visiting a Chinese restaurant and hoping for a good turnout.

The closest dim sum place is a Chinese restaurant across the street from my job, Peter Wong's Asian Cafe. On Saturdays and Sundays they have a couple of rolling carts loaded with different dumplings. If you want something special, like steamed clams in black bean sauce, you have to ask for the kitchen to prepare it specially. Today I had shrimp siu mai, green peppers stuffed with minced shrimp in a black bean sauce, tofu skins stuffed with minced pork, bamboo shoot, and mushrooms in oyster sauce, and chive and shrimp dumplings with clear skins.