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Restaurant: Yank Sing (Stevenson St., San Francisco)
Food description: Fluffy steamed buns filled with Chinese barbeque pork
Food rating: 6.5 out of 10
Times ordered: 2

Yank Sing on Stevenson Street is the ghetto version of its sister location in Rincon Center. The food is essentially the same either way: good, but somewhat overrated and overpriced. Starting with the pork buns, I thought they were decent, but not a must-have. The upside? The bbq pork was just the right sweetness and tenderness. The downside? Too much dough drowned out the pork. The dough was also too dense instead of light and airy. This is the hardest part to get right so I wasn't really expecting much in this department. Attention to detail isn't exactly a characteristic of dim sum. So to recap: way too much dough, good pork but not enough of it, and not-so-fluffy buns. Too bad, cuz I'm all about the fluffy buns. Buns like these.