Ordering dim sum for the first time can be an exhilarating — and overwhelming — experience. Some larger restaurants like Yank Sing, a popular dim sum hot spot in San Francisco, offer over 100 rotating ...

The Platonic ideal of dim sum is definitely an in-person thing: tables crowded with multiple parties, a huge room filled with people competing for the attention of roving carts decked with metal ...

Clouds of steam billow from the open kitchen at Yauatcha, wreathing the disembodied heads of cooks in flowing mists. Framed in piles of bamboo steamers and dull glints of aluminum, it's as if some ...