Dim Sum in Queens or Flushing?

A search revealed only one conjunction of the operative words dim and sum and (queens or flushing), and that didn't contain a restaurant reference (altho' "Number 7 train" was relevant! : )

TODG and I are departing Long Island tomorrow (5 Mar) via that general direction and would like to partake, if anyone has a good recommendation.

TIA!

Geo

I lived in NY for a year and I think I ate better dim sum in Flushing's C-town than in Manhattans. That being said, it's been a few years since I was there. I looked at the places I had asterisk-ed in my book about eating in different NY neighborhoods.
Here are the one's I had marked:
K.B. Palace on 39th ave (near Main)
Jade Garden on 38th ave (near Main)
East Lake (especially big and well-known) on Main
The above are all pretty big, bustling places with carts, if I remember correctly.
They are also fairly close together so you could stick your head into each and see which appeals to you.
Also, on Main Street there's a great hardware store that has an extensive selection of woks, chinese cooking implements, so if you are in the market for any of that, I would stop in.
There's the original Joe's Shanghai in Queens, as well. Joe's is famous for soup dumplings (dumplings made with pork and or crab and gelatinous broth that liquifies when the dumplings are cooked and squirts out when you bite them, or something like that). I looooove soup dumplings. Phoenix has them but they are not nearly as good as the ones I had at Joe's or the Grand Szechuan restaurants in Manhattan. I don't think they have dim sum (I may be wrong) but if you are looking for dumplings, you can't go wrong with a big plate of soup dumplings. Or two. Or three.
Great, now my mouth is watering and I have no source for soup dumplings. Anyway...
There is a public parking lot with meters on 39th (I think) if you are driving but the subway is pretty convenient.

Tnx for the great suggestions thaiobscessed, but.... you just never know. Due to the late-breaking dynamics of a Brother-in-Law, a 6-yr old nephew, and The New Girl Friend from Hong Kong, we ended up at Aberdeen Seafood and Dim Sum in, of all places, the Marriott Residence Inn, White Plains, instead of Flushing. Equally on our way home from Long Island --> Montreal.

By 11:30 on a Sunday morning, the place is very crowded. Probably 80% Chinese clientele, half of whom speak Putonghua, the other half Guangjohua. The restaurant is Hong Kong (true to its name). Carts, and a diverse noodle menu--several versions of chow fun, various fried and soup noodles, quite interesting.

Shao mei were as good as it gets; jiao zi were plump with nice stretchy skins. They had a big fat vegetarian dumpling, mostly black mushrooms inside, that was a wild green color.

Also a scallopy-thing, wrapped with bacon. Rather odd, but really tasty.

We ordered ad lib a couple of plates of greens which they brought very quickly.

White table cloths, extremely professional and responsive staff, nice surroundings, excellent fresh dim sum. I'd go back in a heartbeat.


Geo

Aberdeen Seafood and Dim Sum
3 Barker Ave
White Plains, NY 10601
914-288-0188

This past weekend, we, like many other folks, wandered around Flushing, Queens with copies of this article in hand - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/dinin ... shing.html - eating a dish here, a dish there, and comparing notes "are you just starting? where have you been so far? what's the best?" Too funny, but very tasty, and lots of fun. Poor folks at these places, the guy just looks and says "so you want #6, yes?" (#6 being the wontons, for example). And sigh, and produce another plate. Some places had run out of the items listed in the article.

We sweated in the bowels of the Golden Mall over bowls of hot soup with hand pulled noodles, we got peking duck buns through a window at a sidewalk stand, we waited in line for tremendous soup dumplings.

(interactive guide, and link to printable version http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008 ... CTIVE.html )

We sweated in the bowels of the Golden Mall over bowls of hot soup with hand pulled noodles, we got peking duck buns through a window at a sidewalk stand, we waited in line for tremendous soup dumplings.

This reminds me of a trip I took last fall.