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New fortune austin dim sum menu11/11/2023 ![]() I wanted to tell the bros that at one time I hadn’t known either, that I didn’t know what I’d been missing. It’s no more Chinese than Tex-Mex is Mexican food to someone living in Cancun no more than an Oscar Mayer hotdog is Bavarian cuisine. Everything is deep fried and covered with gloopy, oil and sugar-laden sauces that make the choices look nearly the same. And instead of sharing, each guy settles a serving bowl in front of himself (one dude has two). The three guys get four huge, family-sized dishes delivered to their table. ![]() Dim sum is a bit like Chinese tapas, small dishes that are traditionally served for breakfast or lunch - in our case, it’s usually Sunday brunch. Phyllis and I now call Austin home, and New Fortune is our favorite place for dim sum. The push carts are a nice retro touch, as they have all but disappeared from Hong Kong, my wife’s home town and where I lived for several years. Servers lift lids off bamboo steamers and puffs of ginger and garlic advertise delicate hand-formed har gao, their pale shrimp visible through the translucent encasement, and siu mai with wonton wrappers cradling pork stuffing.Īt the table next to us, three gweilo - Westerners like me, but “white ghosts” if you translate it literally - order from the menu rather than selecting from the steamed buns and dumplings circulating between tables. ![]() Hundreds of chopsticks clink on porcelain, laughter erupts, and the twitter of multiple conversations rises from each of the dozens of round tables. There is nothing quite like the din of a large Chinese restaurant and the cacophony in the vast dining hall of The New Fortune Chinese Seafood Restaurant is no exception.
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