HOW DO YOU OPEN A DIM SUM parlor just steps from two Bay Area institutions -- Hong Kong Flower Lounge and Fook Yuen -- and succeed? It might be by serving well-prepared dishes using fresh ingredients, ...

I usually go to Star Kitchen for dim sum. And I’m not the only one. At lunch time — especially lunch time on the weekends — the restaurant is a chaotic sea of people, with families huddled around ...

I woke up to the sound of pigeons beating themselves against the porch eaves. It was sunny, ridiculously warm and clear, beautiful for Colorado in February. Global warming or whatever. The world was ...

Ocean Star in Monterey Park has been in service since 1982. They're a classic dim sum joint in every sense of the word: rolling carts, Cantonese servers, dim sum operation during the day and ...