So 'Lucky': Tucson recently welcomed a NEW dim sum restaurant
My colleague Eddie Celaya wrote a feature of a new dim sum den, called Lucky Panda. Enjoy!
Although popular in China and in the West’s bigger cities, dim sum, which translates most closely in English to “to touch the heart,” is rare in Tucson.
Last summer saw the opening of Go Dim Sum, at the time the city’s only Chinese restaurant devoted almost exclusively to the ancient cuisine-art, though with a fast-casual setup.
Before that, select restaurants like Guilin and others offered sit-down style dim sum on weekends, replete with servers pushing carts piled high with circular bamboo steamers containing morsels just waiting to be dropped off at tables, where diners, after filing out a small chit of paper selecting their favorites, eagerly awaited.
Lucky Panda, however, features a walk-up counter and an a la carte ordering style. Its menu offers an array of Cantonese-inspired dim sum dishes like tender chicken feet, shrimp-and-pork-filled shu mai and sticky-sweet BBQ pork buns, something owner Danyan "Dawn" Lew credits to her upbringing in Guangdong Province, formerly known as Canton, and where most dishes associated with dim sum originate.
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