A Thin Trail of Smoke: gu's bistro dimsum

myself, beasley, action jackson, teacher mccloud, and the dictator all went to gu's bistro to have the famed dimsum. they do not usually have it there. ONLY if someone makes a reservation for 10 or more, will they start it up. then there's a mad scramble for the rest of the spots inside. action, always on the ball about this stuff, got us in. also, it was more like 13 courses of tapas as opposed to the cart style. but that's neither here nor there. the results!

my first indication of how good this place was going to be...waaaaaaay too many white people.
2.5/5 stars.
a few great items, lots of mediocre ones, and some really bad ones
there are still no good dimsum places in atlanta.
the search continues.

pics of all the food:
beef jerky - not too bad, good way to start off the meal

tofu skin with sesame oil - spicy but light

congi w/ red bean (something else, maybe grapes) - eh

pork fried dumpling - one of the best, great pork flavor and the dumpling was crispy on the outside and warm and doughy on the inside

Sweet rice pudding with bean-nut center - a lot of the dimsum had the same bean-nut paste in it. it was okay, but the rice was ridiculously sticky, which made it hard to eat

dandan noodles - easily my favorite of the meal. homemade thick noodles, which got mixed with this spicy, oily, garlicy stuff at the bottom of the bowl. fan-fucking-tastic

beef eggroll - wrapper was done perfect, insides were good, not great

spicy beef...stuff - it had the consistency of gravy with some beef and other stuff thrown in. as unappetizing as it looked, it totally made up for in flavor.

luke warm ball in sweet rice broth - wow, this was gross. ive never had a testicle in my mouth (as far as you know), but i imagine this is what it would feel like. the thing was, it looked like a cold dish. so when i put the rice thing in my mouth it was slimy and warm and totally unappetizing. ugh. worst of the lot.