Dim Sum - Little pieces of Chinese heaven

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

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The Cantonese term Dim Sum refers to an assortment of fried or steamed food served in steamer baskets or small plates and are consumed as part of breakfast or brunch. I found different translations for the term like “A Little bit of Heart” , “Heart’s delight” and “Touch of the Heart”. All these make sense, since these little pieces of heaven touches your heart, and you can eat these small delights to your heart’s content. All the dim sum plates are meant to be shared, sharing the Sunday dim sum […]

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Brunch at Monsoon

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

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Last Sunday a bunch of us met up for brunch at Monsoon to celebrate Siva’s birthday… He was pleasantly surprised to see everyone there that early in the morning, I had told him that the two of us were just going out for a regular sunday brunch, hadn’t mentioned anything about his birthday… . I even pretended like calling up Monsoon in the morning and reserving a table for two…

Anyway the brunch was the most surprisingly different brunch I […]

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