The Tea Garden menu If you like ordering from a card like this one, then the dim sum experience is likely not for you.Of course, during dim sum service the kitchen will still make any dish you order, but I remember eating off the carts at a big group table is more fun.
You choose dim sum from an variety of dishes that servers push aroundon carts. As the carts circle the table, you stop at the small plates you want.If you're lucky enough to be dining with Chinese-speaking friends, they can request special delicacies for your table. And they can also understand what you are near to eat. This is very handy.Our board of friends is diverse (folks from Korea, Viet Nam, China, Philippines, America) so our preferences are a bit random, but I've learned there is a certain range to how dim sum should be served:lighter, steamed dishes come first, followed by meats, then deep-fried dishes, and finally dessert. Which is usually custard tarts, sweet buns or fruit jellies. All washed down with many pots of tea or sometimes a beer.
There's enough of dumplings on the lazy Susan, and a soul can eat quite a few of them... 
Dim sum means "touch the heart" (as opposed to "meet the belly") so it was originally simply a snack, not a main meal. Now it's a stapleof Chinese dining culture, especially in Hong Kong. The spoilsport health officials in Taiwan have lately criticized the high quantity of fat and sodium in dim sum dishes, even those innocent looking steamed dumplings. It's an occasional treat, but you should still try to rest the fatty dishes with vegetables, minus the salty sweet sauce. Like these healthy looking Chinese greens John is tucking into. 
Whoa! Some of items under those bamboo lids are exotic looking.Squid) 
And, last but not least: friedchicken feet in sauce.Our Asian friends had no trouble keeping the slippery things in their chop sticks and nibbling off the meat. Mine almost landed on the tablecloth. 
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