Furama Restaurant

Dim sum fail
Ok dim sum if you're seriously craving some but there aren't many options. Service is friendly but not efficient at all. Had to ask multiple times before receiving refills or anything we ordered extra for that matter. The fried shrimp dumplings were different than anywhere I've ever been but they are surprisingly decent. Many items don't taste fresh. They're either stale or cold.

I like this place a lot.  The New Furama by Chinatown and this one by Argyle - both are great.  They have really good egg rolls, and the egg foo young and fried rice were top notch as well.  For just general Chinese food this place won't let you down.

David: So, did you want to have brunch on Sunday?
Me: Yes! (How could anyone say no?)
David: Okay, where?
Me: *looks on Yelp* We could go a traditional brunch place, OR we can get dim sum for brunch!

I've never had dim sum for brunch. Heck, I haven't had dim sum in Chicago since I moved here back in 2008. Thus, I was pretty stoked for Furama. Their website listed at least five vegetarian dim sum dishes. That's enough for me. David had the entire menu to choose from.

We walked up to the second floor where the restaurant was. It is very big and very open. We went around 10:00am, and it got extremely busy around 11am. Fear not, there are *a lot* of tables. I don't think you have to worry about a wait. Anyway, our waiter was an older Chinese man. He was a bit slow, but so friendly. In fact, everyone in the restaurant was. I enjoyed watching the adorable teenagers work the dim carts alongside their older employees.

When the first cart came around and I asked if there were any vegetarian dim sum, a woman went out and grabbed me two dishes from either kitchen or another cart! They were the dried vegetarian bean curd (mock duck) and vegetarian bean curd roll. We had an order of Chinese broccoli. It was quite delicious, but I found out that it had oyster sauce on it. I got an order of vegetarian fun roll from a cart, but the server accidentally gave me the barbeque pork fun roll. Whoops. My boyfriend got himself pork shumai and shrimp dumplings. Just when I thought I was done, the woman came back and brought me fried vegetarian dumplings. They were good, although I wish it came with dumpling sauce. For dessert, I had sesame balls and David had a sweet red bean soup, which he really liked.

The price for nine dishes with tax was about $33.

I would give Furama 4.5 stars (due to service hiccups), but David would give it 5. It is the best dim sum restaurant he has been to in Chicago.

The staff is very friendly and accommodating to vegetarians. There is a decent selection of vegetarian dim sum (probably the most in Chicago). The food is quite good. The carts go around very quickly. The prices are cheap. There is parking and the CTA nearby (Furama has their own lot).

Yes, yes, I will be back for sure!