I love any excuse to pull out Mr. Dragon: just please don’t tell him he cosplayed as a snake this year (made possible by his lack of any legs)….
We pulled a selection of dim-sum-adjacent recipes from my Try file for a Lunar New Year brunch. I think the youtiao were the biggest hit b/c who doesn’t love a doughnut? But the spareribs were excellent, too. I would leave the water chestnuts out of the siu mai next time (or sui mei or shui mei—there are a bunch of ways these open-top dumplings are named in Cantonese and Mandarin), or at least chop them more roughly; siu mai are supposed to be bouncy, not mushy.
The Rookery 