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Reminds me: back in my university hostel (college dorm to you Americans), Sunday lunch was, 5 times out of 6, fried rice. I actually had a bottle of barbecue sauce which I would bring down (to the canteen) specially. In retrospect, it sounds weird doesn't it, fried rice with barbecue sauce?

Danny, Ted, forgive a somewhat geographically clueless git for suggesting this, but in the greater scheme of things Vancouver's not that far away from CA, so IMHO you two should head there and duke it out for Apple... :D (Sorry for going further off-tangent) From what little I've read, she...

Makes their complaint even worse, in my eyes. At least the other way around, elderly Western tourists can say that hot Asian food is just too spicy for their tastebuds and digestive systems, not that all Asian food is spicy. The big "sin", in my eyes, is the wilful refusal (BTW this goes both...

Count me as one who prefers Muthu's as well, although as you said, Apollo is all right too.

Once again, Lew is spot-on. One of the very few who will knw what "D24" means... Durians? Man I can't stand the smell of those. I'm not adventurous enough to try them yet -- I grew up in Europe and only returned here at age 9, so in many ways my tastebuds are "westernised". E.g. unlike many...

Lew pretty much nailed it. Dim Sum (Cantonese), or Dian Xin (in Mandarin, Hanyu Pinyin) is literally "snack". Also, as pointed out, the Hongkongers often refer to having a meal of Dim Sum as "Yum Cha", literally "drink tea". My personal favourite is the fluffy steamed dumpling with barbecued...