Ooak Kitchen in Buena Park Offers Vegetarian Dim Sum

Ooak Kitchen is now Fifty One and serves meat-filled dim sum. Photo by Edwin Goei The previously all-vegetarian dim sum house called Ooak Kitchen has become Fifty One, a Chinese restaurant that serves meat-filled dim sum as well as other...

A very fashionable Chinese restaurant called Ooak Kitchen opened in April at The Source in Buena Park, serving vegetarian (mostly vegan) dim sum. This was the second branch of Ooak. The first had opened only a month prior in Culver City. The...

Empress Pavilion is the biggest restaurant in Chinatown, a glittery, hangar-size seafood palace built at the height of the late 1980s boom. In its early years, you would typically wait an hour or more for a table on dim sum Sunday mornings, and in...

Barbecue-pork-filled buns at Tim Ho Wan. Photo by Edwin Goei A Taiwanese co-worker had something to tell me: He said he’d just gone to a new restaurant I’d be interested in. But before he even got the chance to pull the business card out of his...

Dim sum at its best is a total-immersion experience — the quest for a number, the long wait in the restaurant lobby and then the explosion into the dining room itself, likely to be the largest enclosed space you have stepped into that month — an...