The egg custard tarts (in a flaky pastry shell) are slightly less indulgent but just as good, and other options include buns or dumplings filled with sweet lotus seed paste, sticky and rich like peanut butter. and Little Miss F is the egg custard buns (a/k/a Mexican buns), a somewhat doughnut-like shell that is filled with a super-rich, super-sweet egg custard.
Tropical also has a decent selection of sweet dim sum as well.
#SEATTLE DIM SUM ON CHRISTMAS EVE FULL#
I have a particular fondness for their chicken feet, braised and sauced with a Chinese black bean sauce, and full of slippery, gelatinous little chicken bits. Other favorites of mine include the turnip cake, the bean curd skins stuffed with ground beef, and the sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf (studded with little nubbins of Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, mushrooms and other treats).
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In the first picture above, you'll see, working roughly clockwise from the top: shrimp cheong fun pork shiu mai steamed pork bao stuffed bean curd skin (x2) chicken feet mushrooms stuffed with shrimp paste more pork shiu mai steamed chicken dumplings (x2) more shrimp-stuffed mushrooms potstickers turnip cakes and in the middle, shrimp and parsley dumplings. When they're fresh, the pork and ginger stuffed potstickers are excellent (if they've sat too long they can get greasy and doughy). Fried items abound as well, including shrimp rolled in taro, spring rolls, and many others. Rice pasta rolls (cheong fun) come filled with shrimp or pork (and possibly other options), sauced with a sweetened soy sauce. and Little Miss F despite several challengers.
Their baked char siu bao, stuffed with Chinese bbq pork, have long been the favorites of Frod Jr. Steamed dumplings on offer typically include shrimp har gow, shrimp and parsley, shrimp and scallop, pork shiu mai, and many others including both steamed and baked buns (bao). The selections at Tropical are fairly broad. You can barely get your butt into the seat before people start plying you with food, so let's move to that quickly. and I observed our Christmas Day tradition this year with some other good eaters since a good part of the joy of eating dim sum is the variety of little bites, this really is the ideal way to do it.
Service is pushcart style, with roughly a half-dozen or more heated carts working the sizable room, a glassed-in open kitchen where you can see the chefs at work, and nicer, more polished furnishings than you'll find at many other more bare-bones dim sum houses.
While Tropical has a full menu, I've visited (many, many times now) almost exclusively for the dim sum, which is served daily during lunch hours. Though I'm not sure it's actually in the Torah, it is a natural and logical tradition. And possibly the best place to observe it in Miami - whether Jewish or not, and whether on Christmas Day or any other time - is Tropical Chinese Restaurant, across from Tropical Park on the west side of Miami. And while most restaurants are closed for the holiday, it seems in most places the Chinese restaurants remain open. Unlike our Christian brethren, we are not busy opening presents, singing carols, or preparing a ham or a goose for Christmas Dinner. It is a Jewish custom nearly as old, and nearly as universally observed, as lighting Shabbat candles and saying the Kiddush and the Hamotzi: we go out for Chinese food on Christmas Day.
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