Dim Sum At Yung Yee Kee in Honolulu

Honolulu is not especially well known for Chinese food since the Chinese community here is only 4 percent of the city's population.  As such, we don't eat a lot of Chinese food when we come here, since they're are so many other dining options around.  On the other hand, we will reserve a Chinese meal or two just to check on the state of Chinese food here.  As such, it was nice to find another dim sum option here in addition to Jade Dynasty, and indeed Yung Yee Kee, just outside of the Ala Moana Center, is probably a tad better than Jade Dynasty inside Ala Moana.

We started out with the deep fried har gow.  Have only seen this at a couple of restaurants, and this was quite good.

Back home this would be called BBQ pork cheung fun.  However in Hawaii it is known as BBQ pork look fun.  And it's not just a difference in terminology, as the Hawaiian version has a noticeably thinner  skin.  This is akin to the Hawaiian baked BBQ pork bun, which is known as manapua in Hawaii and also has a thinner skin than the version found in the U.S.

Yang Chow fried rice was as good as any I've ever had.

Honestly the best siu mai I've ever eaten!

Har gow was also quite good.

Crispy baked bbq pork buns were good, but last year's version at Jade Dynasty was a bit better.

X O rice noodle logs were much too spicy.

Fish cake with corn was very good.

Turnip cakes

Fried shrimp balls were not what we expected.  Not that they were bad, but they were a little too similar to the fried har gow.

All in all it was an excellent meal, the best dim sum in Honolulu.  And frankly on an absolute scale it was surprisingly good, not what you would expect from a community with a relatively small Chinese population.