Dazzling Dumpling Infusion

It had been five years since I had the chance to return to Yank Sing, the San Francisco financial district dim sum palace that completely, forever, sealed my passion for the cuisine. It was and is something really, really good.

And, it was made better when my friend and former colleague Dave Chapman joined me for lunch at the Rincon Center location. Okay, maybe the company was as good as the food, but that's really not a fair comparison.

Every dish, including snap peas stir fried and served in a sweet brown sause, hit the mark. And, in about 30 minutes, we commited to a table littered with dishes of crab claws, shrimp dumplings, siu mai, shimp wrapped in skins, scallops fresh from the Bay and about 40 other varieties to which we saw sail past in steam carts.

Maybe we got there at the right time (about 11:30 a.m.) or maybe we were in the right spot, but there were an amazing number of wait staff and a graduate course in dumplings -- we were never short of choices, chances and calories.

Visit the web site and you'll see. Better yet, grab your chopsticks and get yourself over there now. If you've been there, what's your favorite?