Great selection of dim sum, with many seafood options. Cai generally does not use steam carts, and you order with a menu that has pictures and descriptions, so your food is cooked to order and not sitting on a cart. We have been coming to Cai in Chinatown for a few years and in my opinion, this is one of the better dim sum restaurants in Chicago. That any adventurous eater will love "Cai" The servers were attentive and suggestive of items. My wife referred the to them as "Fluffy Pillows of Orgasmic Delight, Kissed by the Iron of Love!" were the lightest buns I think we ever had! As must if you go there. The real suprize & the one Item We would Come back for were the "Pan Fried Pork Buns W/Preserved Vegetables" were the BEST OF ALL. The "Beef Ribs, Korean Style" my wife liked. The "Sticky Rice Cakes" were good with the S&S dip & the pot sticker sauce, were nice Thew/Taro light Pot Stickers, were good. Now the new stuff, The Baked Green Chive Puffs" were fantastic,w/Taro light crispy delicate taste. The "Spring Rolls w/Taro" were good, I liked the Sweet & Sour Dipping sauce. Good taste, 09-"StickeyRice," Very nice sticky rice. First time having this and it was really a neat thing.
We started with the #2-"Xioo Long Boo" W/crab" (Soup Dumplings), Very Nice, be careful don't puncture it. In the lower left corner you would place in how many of the item you desired. You could see what the Dim Sum looked like. It was roomy, and had a great view of the Eastern side of Chinatown. It was my favorite, Dim Sum so we went in. We were trying to remember which restaurant we were in last New Year. Luckily found a parking spot in the Neighborhood behind the Archer Ave Mall. Service is efficient but not skilled the clash of crockery being dumped into bins when they clear the tables is quite noticeable.My wife & I were down in chinatown for Chinese new Year. This was a serviceable spot and if you choose carefully you can get a good meal. The "crystal dumplings w/ duck" were filled w/ shrimp instead of duck and had a gelatinous coating (taro?) that made them extremely difficult to eat as they kept sliding out of the chopsticks until I cut them with a spoon. The skinny fried egg rolls had a nasty rancid taste to them. My companion complained that it was not as flavorful as he would like but I enjoyed it.
The entree was easily the best dish with shrimp, squid and pieces of scallop in addition to 3 kinds of mushrooms and celery (a lot), snow peas, scallion and carrot pieces. After perusing the menu, we ordered 4 dim sum plates and an entree-size plate of seafood w/ mushrooms. They give you a menu w/ little photos of the dim sum on offer and this is why I wonder if there's a factory off-site producing them for multiple restaurants: the menu is very similar or maybe even identical to MingHin's and other Chinese restaurants we've eaten at. At 12:45pm the place was bustling and we had about a 5-minute wait for a 2-top. It's a huge room, like a banquet hall, with many tables for 8. It's up a flight of stairs on the upper level of the Chinatown Square Mall. MingHin is our go-to Chinese restaurant but Cai has been recommended several times so we gave it a try for a weekday lunch.
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