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Good dim sum outside of Chinatown

Benny Wong asks:

I have been looking for a good Dim Sum location not in Chinatown.

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Sun Kong in Malden, see I've been beaten to the punch by Twitter.

I've sampled the dim sum at New China Pearl in Woburn on a weekday, can't recommend it; it may be better on weekends when it is served at volume.

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on Morrissey Blvd is owned by the same family who runs Chau Chow City in Chinatown.

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I second Chau Chow in Dorchester. In addition to the dim sum being good, they have a parking lot.

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Some days when they are packed (e.g. mother's day, Chinese New Year) they have attendants directing the parking in the lot and on the street nearby.

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It's been a few years since my last visit, but I remember enjoying the Dim Sum offering at House of Chang in Cambridge. It's located between Harvard and Fresh Pond directly on Concord Ave.

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Green Tea has it on weekends. There is parking.
24 Elliot St, Newton Ma 02461
http://www.greenteanewton.com/

Shanghai Gate has some limited dim sum items on weekends.
204 Harvard Avenue Allston, MA 02134
http://shanghaigateboston.com/Menu/weekend.pdf

ChangSho has a "Sunday Brunch" with dim sum items
1712 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge
http://changshorestaurant.com/menu/

House of Chang offers Dim Sum on the weekends
282 Concord Ave Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.houseofchangcambridge.com/DimSum.pdf

If you are up North, you could try North Garden Restaurant. They have it weekends and Mondays.
715 Mast Rd Manchester, NH 03102
http://www.northgardenrestaurant.com/dimsummenu.html

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I can tell you where not to go:

Jumbo in newton is AWFUL. Unless they changed the chef in the last 2 years, it was not very good at all - the regular stuff you'd expect but bland, soggy or not tasting right

Shanghai Gate is an awesome restaurant and the dim sum is actually more of a Shanghaiese brunch, so you aren't going to get egg tarts or the same sort of buns you'd expect - it is pretty great but just setting expectations.

New China Pearl in Woburn is your best bet since management changed.

China Pearl in Quincy is hit or miss - I think it is inconsistent across the board. How the Hell can you not have egg tarts or char siu bao on a Sunday?

Dim Sum is specific to Chinese Cantonese - so really, anything else is just Chinese brunch if you're not in a Cantonese place. That being said, it really depends what you are looking for. Taiwanese places have things that may not be big for some people, like salted duck embyro salad - to each their own.

Green tea lost my vote since they took away the touch in the pupu platter.

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Yangtze River in Lexington has all-you-can-eat dim sum on the weekend. There are carts and also a buffet with some dim-sum items and some non-dim-sum regular dishes.

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I highly recommend Grand Chinatown on Billings Rd in Quincy over the China Pearl, if you don't mind waiting a bit longer. The food at Grand Chinatown is much more consistent, probably because China Pearl in Quincy is humongous.

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