Delicious Food Company: Dim Sum, quick and easy
When you’re in the mood for a light meal or snack that costs under $5 (yes, under $5), Oakland Chinatown is the place to go. A look around the neighborhood reveals restaurants and markets galore, but you’ll also find small bakeries selling grab-and-go dim sum. Delicious Food Company is one such place, with everything from the savory to the sweet on the menu.
The baked barbeque pork buns for under $2 are served hot off the oven and can compete with any pork bun you’d buy at a sit-down place. Other savory dumplings include steamed vegetable buns, potstickers, Sui Mai filled with pork or shrimp, Gow Gee, Har Gow with its smooth, translucent pastry shell, and other veggie- or meat-filled finger foods.
Overall the quality here is consistent, and one of the biggest selling points is price. If you literally have $5 on you, you can leave with enough dim sum to fill you up on your weekday lunch break or even to share with a weekend companion.
Dim sum of the sweet variety includes strawberry cakes for .$85 each and miniature custards for $.65 each, sesame buns filled with sweet mung bean paste, apple turnovers for $.85, butter cookies, cream horns, pineapple moon cakes for $1, and large almond cookies for $.85 each. The sweets are sweet and exotic, and Delicious Food Co. serves them fresh daily. Rather than arriving at the office with a box full of donuts, you might opt for a box of mixed dim sum instead. Dim sum boxes are also a great surprise for the family or an informal potluck.
In business for more than 20 years, the Delicious Food Company is part of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, which, among other things, offers small business training on community issues and business practices and hosts networking events for the benefit of the neighborhood.
HelloOakland Tip: If you’d rather enjoy your dim sum on the premises, there’s a seating area here as well. The restaurant is located at the corner of Webster and 8th, just before the entrance to the Alameda tube. Large catering orders are also available. Also, just five minutes away from Chinatown, find the bars, restaurants, and attractions of Jack London Square.
Posted by Renee Rutledge
