The new owners have also cleaned the place up considerably. To my knowledge, it’s the only place for Kimbap in town. This fall, it was purchased by a Chinese family and has morphed into a Chinese and Korean place. For a million years (since some of my friends were kids), the place has been a Korean restaurant with an Asian grocery attached. Red Bowl (NOT Red Pearl) is the place on Greensprings that is next to Pizza Hut and right by the Salvation Army. We cleared our schedules for the following Saturday, rounded up four more foodie friends, and pointed the GPS to Red Bowl. The very same day, blog fan Richard contacted me to say, have you tried the dim sum at Red Bowl? Sometimes it takes a village. When he didn’t hear anything else from us, Dax wrote again asking if we had tried it yet. ![]() ![]() At that point, we did the unthinkable-we took a two week vacation. My first reaction was skepticism – real, homemade dim sum? There’s nothing worse than having a dumpling from a factory that’s been heated up from frozen in a microwave. So you can imagine my reaction when, a few weeks ago, one of my loyal blog fans (hi Dax, I’m talking to you!) emailed me asking if I had heard that Red Bowl was serving dim sum on Saturdays and Sundays. I asked the airport taxi to take me to a pre-selected dim sum place in Chinatown, where I proceeded to eat enough dim sum for a small family. But since I’ve been so deprived of dim sum in Bham, I’ve been known to eat it alone while traveling. In any place we’ve ever lived, dim sum is the thing to do on weekends-the best places have lines out the door from the time they open.Īs you can imagine, dim sum is really, really fun with a group, so that you can try as many things as possible. And in our opinion, good dim sum is better than almost any other category of food out there. The variety is one of the things that makes it fun. Sometimes you point on a menu and little plates of goodness appear from the kitchen. They show you what they have, and you point and eat. Classically, servers come around with metal carts piled high with metal steam containers filled with all of this stuff. Basically, dim sum is a very labor-intensive Cantonese style of cooking that involves small bites of lots of different things – stereotypically dumplings and meat buns but also small plates of meats, veggies, and noodles. For those of you who haven’t had it, you can read more about it here. We put dim sum last for effect, but at least for me (Ms Foodie), it belongs first. Solid Vietnamese food (sorry… don’t hate me for saying that, but we briefly lived in Vietnam and have some strong opinions on the matter). Trader Joe’s (which, in an answer to all of my foodie prayers, is on its way to the Summit later this year). An authentic, amazing Thai place (you’ll have to go to Gadsden for that). Ethiopian food (although we do have some amazing Kenyan food). So here it goes, our foodie wish list: A real tapas place. ![]() ![]() Apologies in advance if the following list implies that your favorite isn’t our favorite….since we don’t do negative restaurant reviews, this is the closest we get to saying we don’t like something. However, we would be lying if we said that there aren’t a few glaring holes in our food scene. Now, we’ve done our best to show here, here, here, here, here, and here that Birmingham’s outstanding food scene is way more than BBQ and shrimp and grits (although we have that too). The thing we probably miss most is the availability of pretty much any kind of food you could ever want. And about living in a really big city in general. Our usual response is that of course, there are things we miss about living in those two cities. This is our adopted home.īut it’s not surprising that people often ask us if we miss living in Philly or Manhattan. As one of my native Alabamian friends likes to say, “you aren’t from here, but you got here as fast as you could.” That pretty much sums it up. If you’ve ever read this blog before, you know that Mr Foodie and I are huge fans of Birmingham. Please note: Dim sum is only on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30-3!!
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