Yank Sing @ San Francisco

Can we say over priced? Yes!!! Yank Sing is definitely a tourist trap. While the dim sum is good, $10 for a plate that would normally cost no more than $5 is insane. Oh yea for a peking duck sandwich, one piece of bread and one slice of ducl, it will cost you $5...and it's not a huge portion, it's the same size you would get if you ordered it at a restaurant. I do have to say that I was absolutely amazed at the manners there! I've never been to a dim sum restaurant where the servers (the one's pushing the little carts of food) are so well mannered, so well spoken, and softly spoken! They come up to you, telling you what's there (they tell you in English first, because the default is that you don't speak Chinese, but once you start talking to them, they realize that you do speak Chinese, and that's the choice of language for the rest of the stay), and if they don't have what you want, they speak into their walkie-talkie, but it's like a headset, and communicate with whoever! In a manner of seconds it VOLIA here's the siu mai you wanted! Also, they give you a fresh plate whenever they realize that your plate is dirty, which is a plus and minus. The plus is when you're eating chicken feet, the bones don't have to stay on your plate for the rest of your meal, the minus is that well I have to keep adding hot sauce to my plate! When they realize that you've stopped eating, they polietly come over and ask if there's anything else they can get you. What service!! Ok so between my mother, panda and I we ate about $100, and this is everything we ate. So you can imagine how much things cost. Good thing my mom has tons of gift certifcates, who wants to visit me in SF to eat! YAY!

Chrysanthmum Tea
every time you go "yum cha" you gotta get some "cha" - tea. but look at how beautiful the tea pot is. they place the actual tea leaves in the middle, and so when you drink tea, you don't get any leaves. very good tea.

voila!

Siu Mai
very juicy...nom nom nom. this is my fav at dim sum

Scallop Dumpling
fresh scallops!

Fun Gor
[mixutre of pork, mushroom, veggies]
this was really good! it doesn't look good, but my favorite part was the skin, it was so chewy! loves it!

Steamed Pork Spare Ribs
panda loved it!

Fried Shrimp & Crab Claw
yummmooo!!! can you see how delish this is? can you imagine the amazingness? and then you dip it into sweet and sour sauce...and after you get through the shrimp that's around the crab claw, you get the meat of the crab claw. oh yea this was $10 - $5 per claw


Steamed Chicken Feet
ok so this is one of the things where you've either grown up eating it, like me, or if you haven't, then you ate it. But it's not really as gross as it sounds...it's tasty! and yes salami they don't have the nails attached. this is a fancy dim sum place!

Xiao Long Bao
this was my mom's fav, so much that she ate 3 and i one, panda had 2. so what makes this so good? besides it being cooked to perfection? well....the skin was the perfect thickness, and well there was a pocket ouf soup inside! no drippage! no breakage! only yummy goodness in your mouth! this was $11

Foil Wrapped Chicken
Yank Sing is very famous for this dish...and honestly they do make the best! hence why i'm not allowed to order it at any other restaurant haha...wait for it...

juicy! and all that juicyness cost $8

Pan Fried Turnip Cake

Fried Sweet Dumpling

the skin is sweet...but inside it's savory! a mixture of pork and shitake mushrooms

Rice Noodle wrapped around Beef
ok so this was $10....yes can you believe it? crazyy!! and honestly i didn't like it too much. the beef inside had too much scallions and cilantro...and i'm not a fan of cilantro

Mango Pudding
could have been better...if they added fresh mangos inside before they made it into a pudding