Comments on: YOOM–Paris’s First Dim-Sum Restaurant, B-/C+ /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/ Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alexander Lobrano /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-320 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:38 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-320 Thanks, Relle. I liked Mousson a lot, too, and will look forward to trying Panasia. Best, Alec

]]> By: Relle /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-319 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:09:48 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-319 THANK YOU! I am so glad someone else agrees with me…I was really disapointed with YOOM for the same reasons…I was excited to go there – especially when I saw the crowds outside the door waiting for them to open. I said to my friend I am not sure if they will still be there in a year. I know my Asian food…and eat more asian out and at home than any other food fare. Have you tried Mousson 9, rue Thérèse 75001 Paris. Authenic and fresh…or another great find…an Asian melange…called Panasia! absolutely fantastic 130 Ave Victor Hugo 92100 Boulogne Billancourt – funky – young and the food is really good…metro Marcel Sembat. Happy eating!

]]> By: Alexander Lobrano /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-318 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:08:57 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-318 Thanks for the feedback, Erica, and sorry to hear that Autour du Yangste was a wash out. I'm on a permanent dim sum hunt in Paris myself and if I find anything good, you'll read about it here. Best, Alec

]]> By: Erica /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-317 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:12:54 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-317 Hey Alec,

Autour du Yangtse was a total wash–the soup dumplings were too small and way too sweet. Even though I went in with absolutely no expectations, I was still disappointed at the end of the meal…sigh…the quest continues!

]]> By: Alec Lobrano /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-316 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:58:16 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-316 Hello Ptipois,

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one, since anyone who's traveled regularly to Asia as I have, or who knows San Francisco, Sydney, Vancouver and many other western cities will tell you that the Asian offer in Paris is generally middling at best.

There has indeed been immigration to Asia from France for a long time but once they arrive, most Asian restaurant owners inevitably propose pretty dumbed down versions of the food they ate in their own countries. They're are a few exceptions, but Paris is still not a top-league city for Asian food, and I've always found Tricotin very overrated.

Best, Alec

]]> By: Ptipois /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-315 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:27:42 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-315 Dear Alec, the feeling I get from your various reviews about the "Asian offer" in Paris is that we live in two different cities. There are hundreds of excellent Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian and even Chinese restaurants in Paris and around. But if you keep hitting places like Yoom, Lily Wang, Lao-Tseu and Le Santal, no wonder you're disappointed. However these are in no way representative of the East Asian food scene in Paris.

Q-Tea is a good place. But it is not "a trend". Paris has been serious about Asian food for quite a while now. Indeed, it began with the first immigrants from Wenzhou back in the 1920s.

One first tip: try Tricotin for dim sum. We can share them.

]]> By: Alec Lobrano /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-314 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:13:22 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-314 Erica: Thanks for sharing your address, and if I come up with any other good Asian places in Paris, I'll post here immediately.

Randy: There are small signs that Paris is getting serious about Asian food–as I posted last week, Lily Wang is actually very good, if not particularly authentic, and I love Q-Tea in the 9th, which I also wrote about recently. Let's hope these new places are a trend!

]]> By: Randy de Paris /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-313 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:29:01 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-313 Hi Alec, good write up. I maybe becoming complacent, but I think I'm going to start seeing Chinese food in Paris in context to the country and hope that it will evolve, which I know it well. I remember when I lived in Spain as a teenager that fried rice was cooked with very strong olive oil. I thought it was very bizarre. We were in Spain last year, and Chinese food has really evolve… I did find a Schzehuan/Hunan style restaurant in 13eme, food was good and spicy; unfortunately, I just couldn't get pass how greasy/oily everything was… oh well, I'm an optimist, and your recent review is a good sign. Merci!

]]> By: Erica /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-312 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:04:48 +0000 /restaurant-reviews/yoom-pariss-first-dim-sum-restaurant-b-c/#comment-312 Hey Alex,

Hope you're doing well. I saw that you love xiaolongbao (perhaps my death-bed dish), and I wanted to know if you had found any good restaurants for these beauties in Paris I recently discovered a restaurant in the 13th that serves them called Autour du Yangtse. I'm planning on heading over there this week to try them, but I didn't know if you had any other places you would like to share.

Happy Sunday!
Erica

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