Cai chicago dim sum update#

The women's restaurant doubles as storage for extra chairs, and one of the stalls was out of order. We really enjoyed our meal, and plan to return to make selections from the main menu upon our next visit to Chicago.

Another great sign is that the dining room was near full, but we were seated very quickly. Most of the other diners were Chinese, and I take that as an excellent sign that the food will be good, especially when there are so many choices in the area. I reviewing the rest of the menu, I found the dishes to be some of the more authentic Chinese dishes I've seen since my trip to China in the mid 2000's. One of the waitstaff removed it from our bill, but we had to ask. We had ordered white rice on the side, but it was never delivered, even after mentioning it to the server.

Cai chicago dim sum update#

(As soon as I find our list of what we had, I will update this review.) We liked all but one of the choices. Being fans of Dim Sum, and since it was my daughter's birthday the next day, she chose all but one or two of our selections. I cannot recall if there were an elevator or not for wheelchair access, so please call to confirm. Happily, we stumbled upon Cai and found a lovely place to dine! Cai is on the second floor of a commercial building where there are many shops to pass the time either before or after dining. We didn't venture into the building to search for the other restaurant, because of all the cigarette smoke. However, when we arrived at the address, we found other business, but not the restaurant we chose. We initially chose a different restaurant than Cai (didn't see Cai's Yelp listing), based on a Yelp review. My daughter and I were in town for a college visit, and this was her first visit to Chinatown. Our food part of the bill was under 30 dollars and for seafood that's awesome. One thing with squid is that he cant be frozen or it will be tuff and how else are you going to get squid to Chicago? It was a very nice dinner and not very expensive at all. The mixed seafood had lots to choose from but the squid was too tough for me to chew.

The sautéed scallops and shrimp and a very pleasant sauce which went great with the rice. We ordered the Sautéed Scallop Shrimp and the Mixed Seafood Chinese Greens. Of course he found out that the hot sake went down a lot smoother than the cold. Kyle had never had hot sake before so he did not know the difference between the hot and cold. We went ahead and ordered a Chinese style beer and I ordered some hot Sake. We started out with the tea served immediately at our table when we were seated. The wait staff was very helpful and nice. The place was very well decorated and almost felt like royalty, with fine linens and lots of gold and chandeliers.

As a Seafood fanatic, we just had to try it. Cai was upstairs from there and we almost didn't even see it. We found a place that actually had 2 lobster for 25 dollars and that place was very busy. Walking through the square, we found so many different eateries and many were very busy even for 7pm. On the main drag through town, there were many little shops and diners. Walking through Chinatown, it was very difficult to choose the place for dinner.