Happy Hong Kong Labor Day!

Steamed pork with crab roe and seamed beef with water chestnut

Monday was Labor Day and Melissa was off work.... again.  She had off last Monday and will have next Tuesday too, she is loving this! Hong Kong holidays are great!!

As we wanted to do something special, we flipped through a tour guide book to look for a new restaurant. We decided to try out one of Hong Kong's best Dim Sum restaurants, Maxim's Palace.

Dim Sum is a HK specialty and these meals involve lots of small individual portions of food, many of which are seamed. Like many places in HK Maxim's Palace is located on the second floor which makes finding it super difficult to find as there are no signs on the street or lobby, but we managed to find out way there - after about 20 minutes of being right there!

Upon going up the stairs we could already see the line.  Not what you want to see, but people would not be waiting if it was not good.  After 10 minutes our number was called and we were ushered into a massive room with 2 massive crystal chandeliers and monogramed table cloths (which got quite dirty with all the dipping sauce and our chopstick mishaps!).

They have teams of ladies pushing a cart with the descriptions of their dim sum on little signs.  In the US we just have the steamed pork dumplings, but we went out of our comfort zone on this occasion.  We had pork with crab roe, beef with water chestnut, bbq pork bun, fried cuttle fish with spicy salt, steamed fish cakes, and shrimp dumplings.  The shrimp was our favorite!

Cuttle fish any one?