Yum Yum, Dim Sum!
July 14th, 2008 @ 1:33 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
Obviously, I cannot stop talking about food, so you can see why most of our budget is going towards edibles. On Friday, I talked about the reception menu. Today it’s time to drool over our Dim Sum brunch!
We are planning to serve Steamed Vegetable Dumplings, Chive Cakes, Radish Cakes, Fried Pork Vegetable Dumplings, Chicken Celery Dumplings, Shanghai Style Dumplings, Fried Green Beans Szechuan Style, Fried Rice with Vegetables, and Deluxe Mixed Vegetable Chow Mein. Mmm mmm! Okay, I’m drooling now.
Since we are already doing our reception the night before at a restaurant, we wanted our post-wedding brunch to offer something fun and different. I think our guests will have fun eating family style and we’ll have fun getting to spend one more meal with them 
Are you doing a post-wedding brunch? If so, what kind of food are you serving?
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17 Responses to “Yum Yum, Dim Sum!”
mmmm… brunch…
brunch is hands down my *favorite* meal. sadly, most of our out of town guests have early flights back to the east coast or europe, so no organized going-away brunch, but we may sneak off for a romantic brunch to celebrate.
Mmmmm …. dim sum ….
We’re doing a destination wedding, so will have to see about an after-wedding brunch. I would love to see everyone one last time before the guests depart, so will see what creative ways we could do this!
Mmm… that looks great!
We’re looking to make the day-after as simple as possible, since we all will have had a big dinner the day before and we really just want to spend some QT with visiting family/friends. We were originally going to have bagels and some fruit, but then we decided that brunch was out because we didn’t want to have to rush out of the hotel to set up. So now we’re going to have an “open house” in the afternoon with some drinks and snacks on hand - very informal. Primarily people will be dropping by on their way out of town.
@Erin: The only thing that I regret about the planned brunch is that I can’t order room service and enjoy breakfast in bed the morning after the wedding. That is a great idea for the day after! We’re having guests over or an open house the day before the wedding for our rehearsal BBQ, but I like your idea better
What a fantastic idea. I love me some dim sum!
The resort in washington that I work at does a lot of weddings and the post-wedding brunch is always one of my favorite wedding-related events. Everyone is always so relaxed, the bride and groom are just glowing, and it’s like this last big hurrah together. Your menu has me happy that i decided to bring a vegetable eggroll Lean Cuisine to work today. Nothing like what you will be serving, but it has curbed my appetite for now.
duuuuuuude! i was totally not going to do a brunch but dim sum sounds super duper good! that’s a great idea! i need an egg tart like right.now.
We were going to do dim sum too (still may), but we’re worried that our vegan/vegetarian friends won’t have enough to eat so we might just do normal Chinese lunch (noodles, etc). Yum, dim sum though!
@C: We are pescatarians and GB 2.0 is allergic to shrimp so we are used to not having much to choose from with dim sum. Luckily, we found a place that has several veggie options and then we are supplementing the dim sum items with vegetables, fried rice and noodles, just to make sure that no vegetarians starve
sounds delicious - “yum yum dim sum” is the name of a new picture book for babies, did you know that?
oh, egg tarts! tell me they have egg tarts there! seriously, no good Chinese dim sum down here in SoCal. It breaks my heart.
I wish this was the smell-ernet. Looks scrumptious.
p.s. I’m going to crash your Bee TV session like whoa.
I’m so sad I missed you on BeeTV. Like, irrationally sad. But holy crap yum! And btw, I’m glad we play in different sandboxes because Mr.GV might want to marry you after this post.
@GorgesViola: I’m sad I missed you too! You can watch over an hour of “highlights” though it’s not as fun as actually chatting live.
Mrs. Gingerbread, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist
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Wedding Date: July, 2008
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About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
i am hitting the gym twice as hard this week to get ready for all the good eats this weekend! yum yum!