Oh I agree, I think "good dimsum" is very hard to find even in SF. "Good dimsum" != "authentic dimsum". That's all I'm trying to get at with the parent comment

Oh I agree, I think "good dimsum" is very hard to find even in SF. "Good dimsum" != "authentic dimsum". That's all I'm trying to get at with the parent comment. For the bad dimsum restaurants in SF, I could point you to a dimsum place in HK that's equally bad as long as the flavor profiles match. There are lots of bad restaurants in HK. Does that make them not authentic? Of course not, so quality does not equate to authenticity. The original article is talking about authenticity because that was a real problem. The flavors were changing as they came to America, by a lot.