This Saturday was quite interesting. Went with Ivor and Attie, my two Asian roommates (born in Hong Kong, moved to Canada when they were little) to a very traditional Dim sum Chinatown place.
And I was blown away. The place was HUGE, with a terrific interior (it’s used for weddings and celebrations, too) and an incredible amount of people. You get an impression on the picture, but in real this place was two times that big, almost as big as a couple of tennis courts.
Dim sum restaurants are places where you are served many small dishes and usually you stay there quite a while, tasting a lot of stuff, like some kind of brunch.
There is a really efficient system in place. Servants with food carts are moving in the area, and if you want something you just stop them, take what you want and get a stamp on your card (the pic shows our card after two hours of tasting frenzy 
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Ivor told me, when big families in Hong Kong are going to a Dim Sum place, they almost need two cards, because they have so many stamps. Sitting there, having a look around with very large families around me, about 95% chinese, I didn’t have any doubt about that.
As for the food itself, it was very very unusual for me, very different from the chinese places I am used to back in europe. The most strange thing I’ve tasted were roasted chicken feet, guess it will take some time, before I give them a second try ;).
The sweet stuff was really good, on the picture you can see a fake carrot, but there was LOTS of other stuff, too.