Usually you don't order dim sum, but sit and wait for carts full of it to be rolled around to you. Steaming carts emerge from the kitchen every few minutes during the height of dim-sum service, and all you need to do is point to be served. If you don't know what you're pointing at, some restaurants have helpful picture menus.
Choose lighter, steamed dishes first, and heavier fried ones later. Eat dessert — custard tarts or mango pudding, for example — anytime. Saving the sweet items for last is not a Chinese custom.
Happy Day
This is a popular hangout for the Kaimuki set who are craving bao. Mini breakfast specials with four assorted dim sum and a lunch special that includes noodles, chicken salad and five dim-sum items dispense with the slow-moving- carts concept.
