The heart of Times Square have seen quite a lot of Asian restaurants opening and the last one I tried is Awe Sum Dimsum (pronounce “awesome” dimsum). This casual place is very similar to Dim Sum Sam that I tried few months ago: you order at the counter or on their POS, from a quite large menu and they will tell you when your meal is ready thanks to a buzzer that will be handed over to you after you pay. The Menu has quite a lot of items, but I admit that I was a bit disappointed not to see anything with duck, especially some Peking Duck bao maybe? So I ended up ordering har gow or shrimp dumplings that were perfectly made and delicious, fried eggplant shrimp that were just ok, slightly bland, and some soup dumplings that were a bit challenging to eat as they were cooked in a small aluminum tart pan and so, when trying to remove the sticky shell, it often broke, freeing the fatty broth. It could have been good if the shell was thinner…Jodi was excited as they had plenty of vegetarian options, but the vegetable dumplings and steamed vegetarian rice rolls were unfortunately lacking flavor. At least we had the scallion pancakes that were decent. For dessert, I was really looking forward to trying their lava buns or creamy egg yolk buns. Unfortunately, the bun itself was dry and the filling was not as creamy as I had in other places.