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Ming's Tasty
Chinese
The sugar-crusted barbecue buns have a following serious enough to cause shortages. Ming's Tasty is a no-frills dim sum shop in Oakland's Chinatown, the kind where takeout orders go out the door in stacks and the breakfast and lunch crowds spill onto the sidewalk. The fried shrimp balls are famously frilly and bouncy, the siu mai lands every time, and the line, when there is one, moves faster than you'd expect.
The awards strongest first
- San Francisco Chronicle Best dim sum restaurants in the SF Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle Best restaurants in Oakland
One number, weighted & current 67
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Frizzy shrimp balls
“Among the various respectable options are exemplary frizzy shrimp balls, which are juicy yet bouncy and crisp.”
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Crispy shrimp rice rolls
“There are plenty of other crustacean options, too, like the crispy shrimp rice rolls, where fried shrimp are tucked into chewy rice noodles.”
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Snow cap barbecue buns
“The snow cap barbecue buns ($4.70) and Osmanthus jelly cake are so popular that you might have trouble scoring them, but you should try.”
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Osmanthus jelly cake
“The snow cap barbecue buns ($4.70) and Osmanthus jelly cake are so popular that you might have trouble scoring them, but you should try.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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