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Hang Ah Tea Room, Pagoda Place in Chinatown
One of great pleasures of weekends in San Francisco is enjoying dim sum brunches with friends. Dim sum, Cantonese for "touch the heart", are small plates of al a carte foods such as barbecue pork steam buns, shrimp dumplings, fried stuffed crab claws, spring rolls, and sticky rice with pork. Some restaurants even offer dim sum style pig's feet, baby octopus, or Peking Duck. The oldest operating dim sum restaurant in San Francisco is the Hang Ah Tea Room, located in a small alley in Chinatown. The restaurant dates back to the early 1900s and its below-ground dining room has the feel of an old backroom mah jong gambling den. While there is better dim sum in the city there probably isn't less expensive dim sum than the Hang Ah Tea Room.
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