onmon : adventures: Going Back to Vancouver: Chinese Food in Bellevue and Main Street

Usually, I stay away from Chinese food because I always ate it so often when I was young...but you miss it once in a while.

Actually wait, dumplings are great, I'm okay with having dumplings for life.

Din Tai Fung updated their menu and style :) I've been here every since...I think before my high school years. A lot has changed.

This is the bean curd that has really nice sauce. The sesame oil makes it super addictive.

Their vegetarian dumplings are now colored green! So cool.

I'm glad they didn't take this off the menu (actually, I don't think they took any items off). These are Shanghai rice cakes. They're like ddukbokki :P it's so satisfying to chew on these.

They now have vegetarian buns! Yay

They used to only serve taro and red bean dessert dumplings, but now they've included black sesame buns. I like the nutty taste of them, but they're super rich and sweet.

I don't remember what this one was called. It's basically a Chinese cake that's not overly sweet.

My parents and I went to Sun Sui Wah restaurant on Main Street. I believe there's one in Richmond too. It's basically dim sum.

I liked these taro cakes. They're pan-fried, so the outside tastes kind of like french fries.

This is my mom's favorite. They're just rolled up noodles in soy sauce, and you can dip them in sesame seed sauce (it's kind of like a runny nut butter) and hoisin.

This was something I've never seen before; it's salmon and fish cake and cucumbers wrapped in seaweed and them deep fried. It came with sweet and sour sauce.

Fried tofu, yum.

Xiao Long Bao (obviously not as good as Din Tai Fung, just saying).

Classic chow mein, (which is always spelled in 99 different ways)

I actually don't really know what this is. :D The white stuff is Chinese bread that they use for buns, but the filling is kind of a mystery..I'm pretty sure there's egg yolk.