Eastern Cafe Dim Sum

Missed a photo in my files: here's a flash from the past from a few weekends ago. We felt like trying dim sum outside of Chinatown, and J remembered a place around Geary and 17th. When we walked in, we noticed that the restaurant had been remodelled and given a new name. Consensus: it's as good as ever. The restaurant uses a mix of menu ordering and ordering off trays as the servers pass by. I think it's a good system. You get to order what you know you want, and then see what catches your eye as it floats by.

We had the usual, starting from the left:

• beef wrapped in glutinous rice sheets. This was excellent. I don't usually love this but their version was excellent.
• braised short ribs: okay, nothing special
• pork dumplings: also standard
• braised innards: more standardness
• turnip cake: yay! This is a dish I do go gaga over. As with the first dish, daikon cake is almost always better at restaurants where you order food off a menu because it's guaranteed to come out piping hot.
• shrimp dumplings: quite good! Nice texture on the skin, fat shrimp on the inside.
• tofu skin: also good.