foie gras and black truffle fried rice
unfortunately this sounded better than it tasted, the rice was surprisingly dry with no wok hei and was overwhelmed with truffle oil.
For me, it’s the quality and their ability to execute all the traditional dishes well and also offer a variety of non-traditonal dishes you don’t normally see at dim sum.
You’re also not eating in some carpeted banquet hall, if you care about that sort of thing.
Dragon Beaux is the truth. Their hot pot dinners are pretty good too, but you have to have the taste for HK Cantonese style “da bin lo” to appreciate it. It can add up, since they charge for each item, and you can kick it up multiple notches by adding various seafood, in addition to the typical thin meat slices.
Which places have you gone in LA, and which dim sum items at Dragon Beaux are “non-traditional”?
With the caveat that I have not gone to Dragon Beaux, looks like SF prices, but otherwise doesn’t look that remarkable (though the prices are certainly high, even compared to the higher end places in LA).
