![]() The sauce has a sweet, tanginess that doesn’t quite overwhelm the pork, and here you can make your own pork buns with the steam buns that come along with the dish. The Hakka eggplant is great since it’s pretty light and good for cleaning your palate, and you can add the braised pig leg with steam bun afterwards. It’s hard to get full just off of dim sum items (it can also get kind of pricey…), so we’d recommend a couple of the entree items as well. Other staple dim-sum items are the shrimp har kaw and the chicken shiitake sui mai - since they’re all small portions, you can definitely try a number of the items. ![]() It’s a staple in most dim sums, consisting of a dumpling with a small amount of delicious soup inside - eating it without the soup spilling takes a couple tries, but even if you spill it and eat it without the rest of the dumpling, the rich soup by itself goes well with the red vinegar sauce they provide. It consists of a small portion of sauteed onions, mushroom and shrimp, of which you can scoop a small amount into the lightly-fried baos - kind of like a “make-your-own-bao.” The subtly sweet baos pair perfectly with the salty filling of mushroom and shrimp, making for a wonderful appetizer.įor dim sum, the Shanghai Soup Dumpling is an absolute MUST try (especially if you’ve never had it!). We added it after seeing someone else order it, and after they told us how good it was, we decided we had to try it too. Usually, though, we only a few dim sum items in addition to items from the rest of the dinner menu.įor appetizers, we’d recommend the shrimp with mushroom bao. On weekdays, they have a limited dim sum menu, and the full dim sum menu is available for brunch on Sunday only. There’s not too many people there around then, and you can get seated and helped quickly. We usually try to go around 5 pm without a reservation, when they open in the evening for dinner. ![]() Lin’s is located on West 6th Street, so parking is a bit limited (street parking is available, if you can find it). Here in Austin, there aren’t that many places that have good, authentic dim sum, but fortunately, Lin’s is one of those few. Dim sum is a huge part of Chinese (especially Southwest Chinese) culture - there’s early morning dim sum, afternoon dim sum, late night dim sum, so growing up, we were always on the lookout for good dim sum in the area.
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