Alexis G.
Yelp
New goal in life: Try every Dim Sum spot that Las Vegas has to offer. Do you think I can do It? Not without my eating partner! Which is my husband by the way, we love to bond over food and rate every dish and every restaurant we ever go to lol.
We had about 2 hours to kill, what better way to kill time than to go eat. Craving of the day, DIM SUM! But I mean who isn't craving dim sum?
With our luck, Dim Sum Cafe had just opened up. We arrived around 11:30, few tables filled with chatter all around. The cafe was nice and clean, open space. They still have their Christmas tree up which I pointed out to my husband lol. Nonetheless we were seated, and ordered right away.
All of our dim sum came out PIPPING HOT, with the exception of the steamed rice rolls but we'll get into that later. We never had to wait for anything, they all just came out 2 by 2 on a steady pace. We ordered 7 dishes as following:
Pork Sui Mai: can't go to dim sum and not order this. It's a staple. Great size, freshly steamed, wrapper was a little on the chewier sticky side, but had good filling.
Shrimp Sui Mai: I love a menu that has full shrimp Sui mai. This one was a little disappointing though. Seemed like there was a lot of filler vs just all shrimp. A little too spongey and soft, no bouncy shrimp texture and shrimp flavor itself was pretty mild. Maybe it's just the way they prepared the shrimp but I'll probably skip out on this next time.
Fried shrimp balls: Again, with the expectation of biting into a nice shrimp ball, where you can see the chunks of shrimp. This one failed me a bit, I'll give It to them though that they were nice and crispy fresh but I didn't get that good shrimp bite. Somehow It also just didn't taste like shrimp lol, but the texture on this was much better than the shrimp Sui Mai
Chicken feet & Pork spare ribs: these were both great. Can't go wrong & yes you do need to order chicken feet for the full experience.
Shrimp rice rolls: rice rolls were on the thicker side. I prefer the more soft and silky sheets. Shrimp were okay, sauce was light.
Steamed beef tripe: best one I've had, lots of fresh ginger. Cooked perfectly, great texture.
All in all, Dim Sum Cafe ranks pretty average on the dim sum scale to me. I don't think I would come out of my way to eat here. I did enjoy that the dining area was nice and open. I like that we're not in the busy bustling area of Chinatown. It makes for a more calm experience. Parking was easy, also their chili oil is really good too. If you're in the area and craving dim sum, try It out!