Dim Sum at Li Wah

We decided to go to Li Wah for dim sum last Saturday before catching a movie.  It's really filling, so we only have it a couple of times per year.  Or when my mom's in town, whichever happens first.  For those of you unfamiliar with dim sum, it's Chinese brunch.  it's like a buffet, but the food is brought to you on wheeled carts.  Dishes come in small, medium, or large, and the prices are charged based on what you pick out from the cart.  Each dish usually has between two and four servings on it.  The menu is heavy on port and shrimp.  It can often be really oily, but you'll do fine if you don't make it an everyday occurrence.  Pictured above are some pork dumplings.   They came in a set of four

The buns in the background are pork bao, filled with barbequed pork.  The front dish is shrimp wide noodles.  Both dishes are steamed.

These are steamed shrimp dumplings.  Juicy and delicious!

The front dish are savory dumplings.  The coating is a fried dough and the insides are kind of soupy.  The egg rolls are vegetarian.

These are friend taro dumplings.   They are probably one of my favorite things.  The outside is crispy and the inside is a pork sauce/soup filling.

These are fried shrimp balls.  The outside is basically a crispy noodle.  I think it was a sweet and sour sauce, but I thought they were flavorful without the sauce.

These are some of the dessert items.  The coconut jelly in the background is a new item Li Wah is offering for those who don't want fried sweets.  I think it had a taro flavoring.   The front item is sesame balls.  They are doughy friend balls filled with a sweet lotus paste.

These are egg tarts.  Steve and I consider them to be our favorite desserts.  Crispy pastry crust with an egg custard filling.  Yum!

Li Wah

We went out last night to my favorite Chinese restaurant, Li Wah.   They have the best dim sum in Cleveland!  They serve it on the rolling carts every day before 1 pm, but Sunday dim sum is the best.   Their website menu doesn't feature the sheer variety of things they have to serve.  Last night we ordered the 6 person set meal with the substitution of salty fish eggplant casserole instead of the black mushroom dish.  Also, we added an order of salted fish, chicken fried rice.  The order served the seven of us with plenty of leftovers.

 We also ordered some bubble tea.   The front one is taro and the back one is papaya.

This one is pineapple pictured with the plain hot tea.

The soup was beef with cilantro.

This is roasted duck over jellyfish, served chilled.

This is my cousin's favorite dish, beef with asparagus and peppers.

This is the Chinese style lobster.  It does have some shell bits in the chunks, so be cautious when eating it.

This is a sweet and sour pork dish.

This is a Chinese style fried chicken.  By the way, the colorful things on top are prawn crackers.

This is the salt fish eggplant casserole we substituted for the black mushroom dish.  It's delicious!  The eggplant is savory and tender, with just a bit of salty goodness from the fish.

My favorite dish is the salted fish, chicken fried rice.   It was completely finished!

This is tilapia served with bones.  I'm not a big fan of fish with bones, but everyone else enjoyed it.

As you can see, the set menu has lots of food for a fixed price.  The only additions we had were the bubble teas and the the fried rice.  You should definitely go to Li Wah if you want authentic Chinese food.