#Ocean star seattle dim sum skin
#Ocean star seattle dim sum plus

#Ocean star seattle dim sum skin

It might sound alarming, but to eat them you simply chew or slurp off the soft bits of the feet-if you're having trouble getting over the psychological barrier of eating FEET, just think of it as soft chicken skin on a wing.

#Ocean star seattle dim sum plus

We ordered seven dishes in all, and top on my list were: the carrot cake, a bar-shaped savory rice flour cake combining what seemed to be bits of radish and shrimp with taro or potato to create a starchy, herby utterly delicious cake sticky rice, in which a serving of short-grain rice plus tasty nuggets of meat and mushrooms were mixed with a sweet, fatty brown sauce and wrapped in two gigantic leaves, imparting a smoky rich, woody flavor and lastly the chicken feet-little claws fried and soaked in a garlic glaze. My first bite at Jade Garden completely blew away my first dim sum experience-I realized that this was somewhere I definitely DID need to visit again. There were a couple of good-sized live tanks toward the front-a good sign for seafood lovers. Gazing around the room I also noticed a lot of cute/kitschy decor like oversized Chinese ornaments and giant maneki neko statues. Poking my head around the corner, I saw that the dining room was packed with happy lunch patrons, all sharing an abundance of little metal dishes containing dim sum treats.

The place is clearly popular, as I could see a couple of parties ahead of us waiting for tables. After having moseyed up 7th Avenue, the bustling, slightly chaotic foyer of the restaurant was a bit of a jolt. So it was as a relative newcomer that I came to Jade Garden. It wasn't bad, but also wasn't anything I've felt the need to revisit in the five or so years since. Given the grab bag of options for dim sum in the area, it's hard to know which places will be good, and which one won't-we were hoping for the Bruce Lee of restaurants, but ended up with something more like Chuck Norris-fine, but not quite the same. The first time I'd had dim sum previously was at a tourist trap place a few blocks away from Jade Garden in the International District-neither the friend I was with nor I knew what we were doing or what to look for (we didn't have Chef Seattle's handy dim sum guide!) so we did not find one of the best places in town.