Restaurant: Dynasty
Where: 131 Bloor W., Toronto, ON M5S 1R1, Canada
This Sunday, we tried out this Chinese restaurant that we've walked past many times on Bloor St. I've always looked up to it's 2nd floor location with people sitting at the window seats. I knew they served Chinese food. I assumed they served the "not authentic" type of Chinese food due to its location and just by the way it looked from the street. So dim sum wouldn't be something I thought they served there but after reading the Chowhound message board on the merits of Dynasty's dim sum versus its pricing, I thought we should give it a try. I only thought we'd try it out because I felt it would be spacious enough to fit the babies and so it did. We were comfortably seated at a four person table; stroller replaced a chair and our portable high chair fit on top of another chair. Our table was right next to a stack of fish tanks. No fish in the tanks but a few lonely lobsters and BC crabs.
Where: 131 Bloor W., Toronto, ON M5S 1R1, Canada
This Sunday, we tried out this Chinese restaurant that we've walked past many times on Bloor St. I've always looked up to it's 2nd floor location with people sitting at the window seats. I knew they served Chinese food. I assumed they served the "not authentic" type of Chinese food due to its location and just by the way it looked from the street. So dim sum wouldn't be something I thought they served there but after reading the Chowhound message board on the merits of Dynasty's dim sum versus its pricing, I thought we should give it a try. I only thought we'd try it out because I felt it would be spacious enough to fit the babies and so it did. We were comfortably seated at a four person table; stroller replaced a chair and our portable high chair fit on top of another chair. Our table was right next to a stack of fish tanks. No fish in the tanks but a few lonely lobsters and BC crabs.
There was no trolley service at Dynasty, it had the tick off your choices from the carbon copy listing of dim sum. I found the price to be expensive but the quality was good. Although I have had the same quality of dim sum at other restaurants for a fraction of the price we paid here. This may be the trade off for the cleanliness and the amount of space we need for the babies. There was a premium dish that a waiter came by with that a regular dim sum resto would not have and that was the roasted suckling pork. YUMMMM!!!! It was worth the extra $$$. The skin was a crispy perfection and the meat was oh so tender. We just hope that on our next visit, the roasted suckling pork is offered again!
Two other items to highlight were the scallop wrapped in egg tofu and the scallop dumplings. The first, beautifully natural and steamed. The hollowed out piece of tofu was deep fried oh so lightly. It's appearance resembled a tator tot. The dumpling's skin was the perfect chewy consistency that you look for in this type of dim sum dumpling.
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