To whet your appetite for The Pitch's annual Best of Kansas City issue in October, we're counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. Agree with us or disagree, just get your own.
The rice noodle rolls are like the starter's gun for Sunday dim sum at Bo Lings on the Plaza. Moments after you sit down, the food carts arrive. Your meal is ready to begin. Keep your fingers crossed that the dim sum staple of rice noodle rolls are in warming dishes on that first cart.
The steamed rice noodle rolls (Chee Cheong Fun) are tender pillows filled with shrimp, pork or beef. The noodles are slightly transparent and lightly scored to let you know which filling is inside. The man or woman behind the cart can also take away the guess work for you.
Never greasy, this is the dish that can change people's perceptions of dim sum and be an easy introduction for the uninitiated. The traditional Cantonese rolls are served with a sweet, dark soy sauce, although the noodles also go well with the hot mustard or soy sauce that is on your table.
The three noodle rolls will also be gone before you know it. But by that time, you'll already have three or four more small plates to enjoy.
No. 50: Chocolate Malt from Fox's Drug Store
No. 49: Il Parma from Bella Napoli
No. 48: Italian sausage and eggs from Cascone's Grill
No. 47: Orange Roll from Clock Tower Bakery
No. 46: Tacos de cochinita from Frida's Contemporary Mexican Cuisine
No. 45: Barbecued pork bun from 888 International Market
No. 44: Tableside fresh mozzarella from Jasper's
No. 43: Gyro Sandwich from Mr. Gyros Greek Food & Pastry
No. 42: Apple strudel from Grunauer
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The best way to order these rice noodle rolls is to call them Fun Rolls - the staff will know immediately what it is you want.
I agree with Realist and honestly believe Pine and Bamboo Garden is way better than Bo Lings. They have a better variety and have things we've never seen at Bo Lings. I also think their prices are better.
The Bo Ling's out on Metcalf is much better. The Plaza location once served us glasses of water that tasted strongly of bleach - turned out they use a bleach solution of some kind to clean the pitchers and obviously didn't do a very good job of rinsing ours out afterwards. They never even apologized let alone tried to make it right, so we never went back.
If you like dim sum, be sure to try Pine and Bamboo Garden near Shawnee Mission Parkway and Nieman Road - they're just as good as Bo Ling's if not better.
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