Have had generally solid dim sum three or four times at JG since I last posted. Interestingly, they were packed at 12:30 today, and giving out numbers. My daughter and I shared two kinds of steamed shrimp dumplings (har gau, pure shrimp here, and a version with chives), two types of fried shrimp dumplings (one triangular and translucent, with chives, and one like mini cigars), those taro-on-taro fried dumplings (shredded taro around mashed pork-and-taro), radish cakes, and sticky rice in lotus leaf. With the large crowd everything was much fresher and better than it usually is. We even had to wait for the sticky rice because they had run out and were steaming a fresh batch.
The bill was $40 for the two of us, slightly high for dim sum, but we’d ordered a lot (and I find even in Chinatown these days, we’re not coming out under $15/head as we were for a decade or two – and before that in the single digits).
