Dim Sum in Denver

Since living in Denver last year, we've been on a quest for a good chinese food and have not found a really authentic chinese food restaurant. We (actually Jan) would surf the net and search for reviews and then we'd go there and found disappointments. Yesterday was different. We found this dim sum place and Jan wanted to try it. We drove there, and as we were getting close to it, we realized that we've been in that shopping area before and was beginning to feel uncertain and was prepared for another disappointment. But tucked away in the middle of rows of various stores we found a nondescript restaurant called Super Star Asian Cuisine. The parking lot in front of them were full and it was a little after 1PM. Good sign. Walking inside, we found the place full with the patrons mostly Chinese/Asian. and had to wait for about 15 minutes before we were seated. I think we finally found a jack pot.

For you that have never tried dim sum style meal, it is a unique experience of eating Chinese food. Once seated, you just wait for the various food carts to come to you, and then you point and select whatever food plates on display that interest you. The server will then serve it to you and put a check mark in the order sheet for every item you ordered. These food items typically varies from $1.95 per plate, on average, and some more exotic dishes costing more. The idea is to try different different things and just nibble away on the various dishes until you're full. Because they are served in small portions, and the food carts come quite often, before you know it, you'll have ordered and eaten much more than you thought you have. Here's a sampling of the food we ordered yesterday.


Egg plant with shrimp topping, chicken feet, steamed bun with barbeque pork, sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf, and a few others I can't name. They were all good.