I do sincerely apologize to all who attended. (trust me my wife got an earful from me yesterday - she was behind on her holiday cookie trays for family and friends and had to finish her baking yesterday)
I hope everyone enjoyed and I do wish you all a VERY Happy and Healthy (and prosperous) Holiday Season and New Year. Again, my sincerest apologies.
We missed you both! Next time.
Obviously the only way to make it up to us is to host the next event. 
Thank you @gracieggg for coordinating yesterday’s HO Down. Of course the food was good but even more, I enjoyed eating with other Onions again. I hope it is the first of many more get togethers.
Happy Holidays to All!
Great time and so nice to see some HOs after so long! My 2 favorites were the same as @Gracieggg - those hot pork buns (I’d love to know what they’re called vs. the white puffy version - anyone??) and the chive/shrimp dumplings!
Such a great hodown! I loved the pork buns and most everything else. The clams in black bean sauce was fabulous. I even tried the chicken feet. Not bad. Looking forward to another get together. Happy Holidays to all.
White one are referred to steamed pork buns and the one in the pic are baked pork buns.
If you like the baked ones, they do usually sell them in any Chinese supermarket bakery - Asian Food Market, Kam Man, 99 Ranch, etc. The supermarket version is usually bigger in size . However, imo, they taste better at the restaurant; probably just because they are usually nice and warm and have a better meat/dough ratio.
Char Siu Bao (叉烧包) : Chinese Steamed BBQ Pork Buns
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha_siu_bao for details.
Looks like an epic time was had!! I am so sorry I missed out on the festivities. Next time for sure!! Miss you all and hope everyone is having a great holiday season!!
Also, if you liked those pork buns, next time try getting the pineapple pork buns, they look basically the same but the top of the buns have these craggles on them that are like a sweet pineapply thing, IMO it’s easily the best version of pork bun they have there!
It’s been awhile since I’ve had Dim Sum here & it is going to be awhile until I go back.
Went at 11:30 the place was slammed
We were seated almost immediately as it mostly large parties & we’re just 2.
They obviously can’t handle the Sunday crowds anymore.
Terribly slow service and it seemed as though they are now encouraging people to order from the menu as the cart service is now very slow & limited.
The food as usual is ok & my new dietary guidelines limit my choices so maybe this type of eating is just not for me anymore.
