Clement Street Dim Sum Stroll

On Monday, January 21, 2008, I strolled down Clement Street in San Francisco's inner Richmond, sampling many items from the take-out dim sum joints. Like my previous such excursion, it was overcast, alternating among raining, drizzling, and simply being humid. We smartly carried umbrellas.

I suppose I should note that, during this excursion, I sampled

• dumplings (shark's fin, celery and shrimp (we got this by accident), and scallion and shrimp)
• a long rolled dumpling (with very little shrimp)
• shu mai (chicken)
• a wonderfully warming porridge
• a steamed pork-and-vegetable bun (eh: too bad it was pork and vegetable mashed into a meatloaf-like consistency; I should've gone straight for the bbq pork)
• a banana cake (dessert; made of mochi; heavier than the steamed bun, yet only a quarter of the size of it)
• some potstickers
• a banh mi sandwich (pork; nowhere near as good as those I used to get in El Cerrito while living in Berkeley)

It was a pleasant way of doing lunch, though nothing I had this time was too exciting.