Thursday, March 31, 2011

Dim Sum Hong Kong Saigon Sunnyvale

Today felt like a good day to have dim sum - it's Thursday so only one more day left in the work week and it's 80 degrees in the Bay Area.  Based off location, the best place to have dim sum if you're working in the Mountain View/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara area is Hong Kong Saigon in Sunnyvale.

We got really lucky and got a seat at 11:30am as this place becomes a madhouse around noon with dozens of people waiting outside.  The wait time can be as much as an hour which easily makes it a 2 hour lunch.  Not a good idea especially on a work day!

We ordered our usual for dim sum - shrimp & pork siu mai, deep fried taro & meat dumpling, beef rice noodle roll, stick rice in lotus leaf and pan fried daikon cake.  These are pretty much staples at any dim sum place and they make them here.  However if I had a choice, we would go to Mayflower at the Great Mall in Milpitas or Hong Kong Lounge in San Francisco for dim sum.  However on a work day, you go with what's close by and this is as good as it gets.

It's worth mentioning that Hong Kong Saigon does offer the taro bun which used to be available on weekends but we saw them on this Thursday morning.  We were shocked because when they were available only on weekends, it was very exclusive as they would only make a dozen every hour.  Once the server comes out of the kitchen he/she is rushed by 20-30 people and if you don't move fast you won't get a chance to try the taro bun.  However, it looks like the taro bun is available on weekdays now but the server was rushed by 10 to 15 people and they were gone within minutes.

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