From your table, flag down the cart with the food you want as it goes by. Push carts roll out of kitchens filled with stacks of dumpling steamers and plates of fried food and weave through customer tables. Ordering a meal at traditional dim sum restaurants is a fun and unique experience - and requires a good eye. This is a common signal to waiters that you need a refill. Pot running low on water? Take the lid off and rest it on top or on the side of the teapot. If you want to follow traditional etiquette, the person closest to the teapot should pour tea for guests first before pouring his or her own cup. How do you order dim sum? First, pick a tea, as it will be a central part of the meal - dim sum did originate in tea houses after all. But by and large, the culinary form remains the same as ever. Nowadays, dim sum can include dishes and traditions adopted from other parts of China. As they continued to travel, the practice continued to spread and gained popularity throughout the region, especially in Hong Kong. Silk Road travelers and traders would take breaks in tea houses for a dim sum meal. According to food magazine Lucky Peach, Cantonese dim sum culture began in tearooms in the latter half of the 19th century in the port city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, after opium dens were banned throughout the country. Nowadays, dim sum is eaten all over China and the world, but the dishes are believed to have originated in the southern China’s Guangdong region before eventually making their way to Hong Kong. Typically dim sum is consumed during brunch hours - late morning to lunchtime. Similar to the way that the Spanish eat tapas, the dishes are shared among family and friends. Guo referred us to his attorney, who was unavailable for comment.Dim sum is a traditional Chinese meal made up of small plates of dumplings and other snack dishes and is usually accompanied by tea.
Confusion, and a protracted legal battle, ensued. Meanwhile, Guo renovated the 11th Street location and opened it also as Dim Sum Garden.
The owners closed Dim Sum Garden in fall 2013 and shortly after opened it in a new location, 1020 Race St. Guo’s original restaurant was known as Dim Sum Garden when it opened in 2007 at 59 N. Per a report from April unrelated to the current dispute: A hearing on the injunction request is scheduled for Thursday.Īccording to the Inquirer, it’s not the first time that Guo has been ensconced in a legal battle like this. In addition to the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, the plaintiffs have asked the judge to issue an injunction that would immediately prevent Guo from using “Tom’s” or “Tom’s Dim Sum” in the name of his Media restaurant, or any other restaurant for that matter. Indeed, when we paid both restaurants a visit during lunch on Monday, Tom’s Dim Sum Mania was markedly busier than Tom’s Dim Sum. The lawsuit goes on to claim that customers have unwittingly ordered food from Tom’s Dim Sum Mania, thinking they were ordering from Tom’s Dim Sum.ĭefendants have also opened, and continue to operate, a restaurant under the name of “Tom’s Dim Sum Mania” only approximately 20 feet from, which services and offers the same type of food… for the deliberate purpose of misleading, deceiving and defrauding the public as well as stealing away business unfairly and diverting customers to “Tom’s Dim Sum Mania.” He is no longer an owner.Īnd so the LLC is suing Guo and a new LLC associated with Tom’s Dim Sum Mania, accusing him of violating trademark law and for illegally using the Tom’s name to garner publicity for his new restaurant. It’s unclear precisely when or how Guo became separated from the company - Guo previously told Fox 29 that he was “told to leave the restaurant last September.” (We asked him ourselves but didn’t get an answer.) But as the lawsuit puts it, Guo was “managing the daily operations” of the Chinatown and Media restaurants until September of last year. The complaint filed in the lawsuit claims that that Tom’s Dim Sum in Chinatown and Tom’s Dim Sum in Media are both owned by a limited-liability corporation that has four shareholders, none of which are Guo. The trouble is, the two restaurants have nothing to do with one another - they are competitors.Īccording to a lawsuit just filed in Philadelphia’s federal court, Tom Guo, the namesake of Tom’s Dim Sum in Media and Chinatown, left to open Tom’s Dim Sum Mania. On the surface, there is little that sets Tom’s Dim Sum and Tom’s Dim Sum Mania apart, save for the storefront between them.
And both are relatively trendy and modern in their design. Both restaurants serve double-cooked pork for $10.95. Both restaurants serve scallion pancakes for $3.95. Both restaurants serve soup dumplings for $5.95.
0 kommentar(er)
