Clockwise from front left: BBQ pork pastries, soup dumplings and pan-friend dumplings at Pink Pearl. Photo by KK Law
Hail a cab and head east of Chinatown to Pink Pearl, an institution since 1981 and one of the area’s few remaining large-scale dim sum rooms. Settle into the often busy, capacious interior for traditional bamboo steamers filled with shrimp dumplings, spare ribs in black bean sauce, Shanghai pork buns, shrimp balls, sticky rice and pot stickers. Dim sum carts wheeled tableside make choosing easy.—Tim Pawsey
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