jade dragon in the city of dreams for dim sum

Supply chain issues, price hikes for ingredients of up to 40 percent and difficulty hiring staff have made for a “tough” first year of operation, Cheung said.

Credit: DNAinfo/ Stephanie Lulay Jade Court owner Carol Cheung with her father, Eddy Cheung, outside the Racine Avenue location in 2016. Toronto fried rice is among the restaurant’s off-menu items, as are “secret,” homestyle weekend specials announced days in advance - assuming suppliers can provide the necessary ingredients, Cheung said. Since opening at Harper Court in November 2020 with a limited menu, the restaurant has begun offering “a full Chinese menu” including dim sum items, live lobster and crab, Peking duck and steamed whole fish. Its prior Racine Avenue outpost opened in 2016 and closed in 2019, after Eddy died at the age of 69. Jade Court shares its name with the first restaurant Cheung’s father, Eddy, opened in Toronto in the 1970s. We don’t have big restaurant groups behind us, so we’re basically all on our own.” “A lot of restaurant owners, especially small businesses, we’re the ones that are really struggling. “I wanted to support a local, minority female-owned business,” Jade Court owner Carol Cheung said of the Brown Sugar Bakery partnership. The ribbon-cutting ceremony - featuring cocktails, appetizers, a Peking duck carving and cake from Chatham’s Brown Sugar Bakery - will follow the dance. The dancers will circle the block before ending at the restaurant, 1516 E. HYDE PARK - Cantonese restaurant Jade Court, which opened last fall in Hyde Park with a takeout-only menu, will celebrate a year of operation with a belated ribbon-cutting ceremony this weekend.įestivities will begin with a traditional Chinese dragon dance performed by the Seven Star Lion Dance Group at noon Saturday on Lake Park Avenue near 53rd Street.

Jade dragon in the city of dreams for dim sum