Dim Sum, Art and MAXing it to Hillsboro

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -800

This sunday, I rode the MAX downtown to have dim sum at Fong Chong at NW
4th Ave and Everett St. The portions were generous, and the food was
tasty enough, but I still long for the wonderful Chinese restaurants in
San Francisco's Chinatown. SF restaurants have a much larger variety of strange
little dishes--squid, more seafood, more pastries, etc. However, this
_is_ Portland, not the Bay Area, and hence the Chinese isn't as good.
The dishes were decently tasty and colorful, and I thought it was a
yummy treat. Personally I wish the place had more variety. There was a lot
of pork on the menu--not my cup of tea, and disastrous for Kyra, the girl
who sat next to me, as she doesn't eat pork at all! Tom, who
arranged the event, said that he's going to try a different place next month.