oddjob2

Also, Happy Lunar New Years to all the other Asian BF members too! It is the Year of the Horse.

Italuminium

Yes, happy year of the - iron - horse, guys and gals.

rootboy 

Same to you, OddJob! Thanks. My wife and her mom are busily readying another batch of dumplings and pot stickers. Having a big Chinese New Year party tomorrow night.

I was thinking of getting fancy and trying to carve a horse out of one of the huge icicles hanging under my deck…for a center piece for the table.
But a man's got to know his limitations. And besides, the ice is melting now.

WNG

Happy New Year to you guys/gals too!

Rootboy, you lucky dog! Mmmmm, home made dumplings.

orangeology 

Happy Happy New Horse Year!
may the force be with you all.

Cache

Happy Year of the Horse! My son is a metal horse, should be a power year for him. Italuminum, this year is the Wooden Horse, not iron, but I know what you were trying to say. Maybe I should build a bamboo bike...

spacemanz

Happy New Year! I'm pretty uneducated in this area, but somewhat interested, & I was reading up last night. I was born in '61, making me a ying steel ox. It's supposed to be a tough year for us "work animals", but we're tough.

lsberrios1 

Lets just say that yesterday I had the best dinner I've had in YEARS! First time celebrating the chinese new years and it is the most delicious one yet

Singlespd

Should we have a "post your Chinese made" bike section for the new year? ; )

fureshi

Happy Year of the Horse everyone!

oddjob2

With your talents Scott, anything is possible. How about a horse costume for one of your bikes? You can probably make it out of horsehide!

Italuminium

You're right, it has to do with elements as well but here ar c&v where steel is real, it's iron year every year!

rootboy 

Thanks. Now I'm thinking of carving one out of a giant Daikon.

oddjob2

Looks so EZ - Shu Mai

spacemanz

I'm poor until Monday, after a Super Bowl shopping trip the other day, LOL, but I'm planning a trip soon, to one of the many local places. I don't know enough about Asian foods yet, to recommend any to another person, but I love trying new things, at new places. I'm like a traveling guinea pig.

oddjob2

Best to go for lunch/brunch with 3-4 people, then it is easy to share the small plates with 3-4 items on each one. Looks like Harbor City per below is where you should start. Cheaper than a Golden Arches meal.

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DVC45

Gong Hey Fat Choy!

rootboy 

Guo Nian Hao!

A.Winthrop

I cycled around Chinese dissident sculptor Ai Weiwei's
12 zodiac animal heads, all lined up in front of Princeton
University's Robertson Hall, this morning. I paid defference
to the horse, of course, but only rubbed the nose of my own
animal, the monkey. I truly like being a monkey as he is
loosely associated with Monkey King, a character in the
wonderful Chinese story, "Journey to the West."
.
No dumplings today. I suppose I could wander down to Princeton
Noodles, our town's best Chinese take-out (and sitdown) restaurant
but Chinese New Year is just not the same away from a real
Chinese community. I did get more than my share of Shanghai
and Beijing dumplings during the two and a half months I spent
in Hong Kong at the end of last year. There's even a new
Beijing dumplings shop a block from my friend's Hong Kong flat
where I stay on my annual visits there. Yeah, I know... just
had to brag a little. I could eat dumplings all day, every
day. Once back in the early '80s an Aussie friend and I ate
so many Shanghai dumplings, washed down by gallons of Tsingtao
beer, that we could hardly walk. That was at one of best dumpling
shops in Shanghai, near the Willow Pattern Tea House.
.
My mouth is watering now. Off to Princeton Noodles...
.

WNG

That did it... must go for dim sum on Sunday. Sunday brunch here I come.

oddjob2

No shortage of ethnic Chinese students on the Princeton campus and pharma researchers in Princeton Twp. I'm surprised that Chinese food kinda sucks in the Princeton area.

I love pot stickers and the Shanghai tang bao.

If you find yourself near Parsippany NJ, Qin Dynasty has super Dim Sum, 7 days a week. It's an old Ponderosa by the Red Roof Inn, but every family we've invited there, whether from Los Angeles, San Jose, Toronto, NYC, and even Chinese restaurant owners, love the place too. Not too many gwai lo.

Is there decent Chinese anywhere in Phoenix, Tempe, or Mesa? I haven't been there for decades.

RosyRambler

Say What??

RosyRambler

^Ditto!!

WNG

I've not come across any restaurants that I would call satisfactory or notable.

I'm pretty critical being born and raised in NYC, and sampled HK dim sum when I was a child.
There are several establishments in Chandler that serves dim sum, but I rate them average to below average.
Mesa has the newer Mekong Plaza, but the main restaurant there produces poor dim sum according to the locals. I didn't bother to try it.
Phoenix has the Golden Buddha which is a nice setting, but the dim sum is average to acceptable. It'll serve if you have a craving and it's close to the airport.
But the best I've tried and general opinion of best dim sum is the Great Wall HK in a rough section of Phoenix at Camelback Rd. and 35th Ave.
It's packed on weekends, with a typical wait for a table.
A couple guys debated where to go for the best dim sum, when Great Wall was claimed, one replied is their dim sum worth getting shot for? The reply was yes!
I've never had any trouble patronizing it in the past.
Compared to NYC, Boston, Toronto...it ranks as decent/OK. But that's the best we have out here.