Don Day: Not quite dim sum but quite the treat [] Dragon Chino

It’s a once a week, absolutely-every-week-that-we’re-there, tradition in Toronto. I’m talking about dim sum at lunch. Those wonderful little Chinese treats, steamed or fried, three or four to the serving, that date back to the 10th Century tea houses on the Silk Road in the province of Canton.

We’d only been back in San Miguel de Allende for three weeks but I was already suffering from separation anxiety. I wanted, I needed my dim sum. 

Now we do have a Chinese restaurant in San Miguel. It’s called Dragon Chino. And it’s quite a good Chinese restaurant. But Dragon Chino doesn’t do dim sum. They do a few similar dishes including excellent pork or shrimp, steamed or fried dumplings but no haw gaw, no shu mai, none of those other dishes that I can’t spell.

I messaged Luis Vargas, the owner of Dragon Chino and, perhaps, the hardest working restauranteur in town. If I put together a group of twenty people, could he put together some off-menu items. Luis said, “I can and I will”.

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