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Duh, I forgot to take my camera.

BUT: I can unhesitatingly recommend this dim sum, it's certainly head & shoulders above any I've had elsewhere in Kansas City; and the best items approach NYC and Hong Kong (for example, the tofu-skin roll with black mushrooms is superb).

This is Hong Kong style dim sum: lots of different kinds of dumplings, several won tons, and a bunch of different buns. And it's genuinely Chinese, not Chinese-American: everything you can't get elsewhere, you can get here, e.g., jellyfish, chicken feet, beef tendon, tripe (which comes in a delicate ginger-based sauce), etc.

And it's all about texture. Crunch, crunch, chew.

I really liked it. Not to mention that the price is great. Bonnie Winston and I ate like a couple of piggies, and I had a beer, but we got out of there for $36. Really great.

Their website has the dim sum menu. Note also that there is a daily Chinese menu, but it takes c. half an hour's wait to get anything prepared from that menu--so call ahead.

Geo

Pine & Bamboo Garden
www.pinebamboogarden.com

10915 W 63rd St
Shawnee Mission, KS 66203-3513
(913) 268-9545

wow they have a non-secret Chinese menu! what does jellyfish taste like anyway, I thought it was all water and slime.

I love jellyfish! It's served typically as a cold hors d'oeuvre (along with the drunken chicken : ). Mostly it's texture: very very crunchy, with an uptake of the flavors it's poached in. P&BG's is carroty and vegetable brothy; I've had it at Princess Garden, where it's all about the meat broth and sesame oil.

Long ago one of my co-diners said of the jellyfish "Looks like rubber bands, doesn't taste like 'em, tho'." And indeed it doesn't.

Geo

We went to Pine and Bamboo garden after you first recommended the place a couple years ago, and we've been back several times since. Our kids are suckers for potstickers, and we always forget to call ahead, which means we always end up waiting 25-30 minutes. But they are quite good.

Here are some earlier posts, but I'm really looking forward to getting a group together and sampling the menu a little more broadly. It's hard to get more than 1 or 2 unknown quantities into our order, and Chinese is certainly not my strong suit.

I am in with the group idea,especially with someone who has a clue about the food

Count me in, too. I know just enough Chinese to get me into trouble... But they're starting to remember me there, you know, "the big fat white guy who knows some Chinese"...

Geo