china pearl dim sum

we’ve eaten dim sum twice in the past week, which is delightful, and i’ve run across a couple of new treasures that should be documented here. we didn’t take photos, sorry.
pork-n-peanut dumplings: little white rice dumplings with pork, waterchestnut and peanuts. crunchy & savory.
black sesame jelly rolls: squishy, quivery black sesame jelly in a thin sheet, rolled up into a log. perfect dessert after a bunch of fatty savories. hard to spot, tends to be on the lower shelf of the mixed dessert/savory bun cart.
shrimp & chive dumplings: more rice-wrappers, stuffed with what seems like a 50-50 mix of flat chive pieces (maybe 3/4″ long) and chopped shrimp.
donut wrapped in rice noodle: deep fried oil stick (crunchy donut) wrapped in fresh white rice noodle, then topped with cilantro & soy sauce. Even though the donut loses the crunchy, it’s still insane yummy goodness.
shrimp & lychee in a deep-fried crunchy noodle wrapper: another hard-to-find item. they’re easy to see — the yellow fried flat-noodle clumps are distinctive — but we found them enclosing the shrimp/lychee filling on visit 1, but on visit 2 the insides turned out to be crab claws, shell and all.