6.3.7
2024-04-22
Added DAO Dim Sum (multiple locations) in New York and Queens, New York.
Added tripe to the AI.
Added pea shoots in garlic to the AI.
6.3.5
2024-04-09
Added Sun Sui Wah (a well-known restaurant in Canada) in Bellevue, Washington.
6.2.6
2024-03-17
Added Peony Garden in Walnut Creek, California
Added spam (the good kind) to the AI
6.1.9
2024-02-20
Added Dim Sum Asian Bistro in Durham, North Carolina
5.9.5
2023-10-18
Added Papa Noodles in Marlton, New Jersey.
5.9.4
2023-10-16
Added Youyou in Wheatland, California (Hard Rock Hotel in Sacramento).
Use the iOS 17 ContentUnavailableView for empty search results.
5.8.8
2023-10-07
Added Sichuan hot and sour noodles (suan la fen).
Gold Marquess in Pembroke Plains, Florida is closed.
5.8.7
2023-10-01
Added Li Min Dim Sum in Dallas, Texas.
Rewrote the favorites code with Apple's SwiftData (available in iOS 17), so you'll need to refavorite your favorites.
Added a few more dishes to the AI.
5.8.6
2023-09-25
Requires iOS 17
Started adding onboarding hints using Apple's TipKit
Added New Capital Seafood in Rowland Heights, California
5.8.5
2023-09-18
Dim Sum Go Go in East Village, New York, New York, should opening this weekend.
5.8.4
2023-09-13
Added wet beef chow fun.
Adde Chef Cheng's in Elko, Nevada
Added Dim Sum Hut, Honey Bakery, and Rice Box Kitchen in Reno, Nevada.
Added The Spot Dim Sum and Boba in Sparks, Nevada.
5.8.2
2023-09-07
Added New Hong Kong House in Pensacola, Florida.
5.8.1
2023-09-04
Added Lucky Panda in Tucson, Arizona.
5.7.9
2023-08-27
Added Chinese beef hamburger, eggplant and pork noodles, and winter melon.
Added tofu as a category.
5.7.4
2023-08-16
Added Lucky Cat Dim Sum in Jacksonville, Florida
Added Full Kee in Richmond, Virginia
Added some fruit entries.
5.7.3
2023-08-13
Added mango orange green tea, passionfruit orange green tea, strawberry passion fruit green tea, and osmanthos oolong tea.
Added some fruit.
Streamlined the photo selector for the AI.
Fixed some AI categories.
5.7.2
2023-08-12
Added strawberry oolong tea.
A photo library selector (vs using the camera) is available with the AI.
5.6.7
2023-07-31
Added jasmine rice.
5.6.5
2023-07-22
Added Enson Harbor in Belleveue, Kentucky (just reopened as a dim sum restaurant).
Added brown sugar milk tea, lotus seed pastry, pineapplecake, and raisin bread to the AI.
5.6.4
2023-07-18
Added eggplant tofu noodles.
Added wheat noodles as a category.
Added Asian Pearl Seafood Restaurant in Richmond, California.
5.6.2
2023-07-15
Added cumin chicken.
Added cocktail bun and teabags to the AI.
Added references to the My Shanghai and The Woks of Life cookbooks.
5.6.1
2023-07-10
Chang's, a longtime local favorite in Las Vegas (I used to go there over a decade ago) has closed. Not to be confused with P.F. Chang's or David Chang.
5.6.0
2023-07-06
Added Dim Sum Bloom in New York City.
5.5.5
2023-06-28
Added jinjunmei (golden eyebrow) tea.
Added stir-fry as a category.
Adjusted the dish thumbnail font.
5.5.3
2023-06-25
Added taro balls (Taiwanese dessert topping) and sour plum drink.
5.5.2
2023-06-22
Added dahongpao and peach blossom oolong teas.
Added egg waffles.
Consolidated some categories. New ones include egg and oil.
Added labels to dish thumbnails.
5.5.0
2023-06-17
Added Hunan chicken.
Added Dim Sum House in San Lorenzo, California.
5.4.7
2023-06-07
Added Golden Palace in San Jose, California.
5.4.6
2023-06-03
Added gui-fei oolong (a "beauty tea")
Added lychee and strawberry slushes
5.4.5
2023-06-01
Added darjeeling tea, jiaogulan (a medicinal tea), and yogurt.
5.4.4
2023-05-29
Added latiao (a snack)
Added red-braised beef brisket noodle soup
Added slushies.
5.4.3
2023-05-23
Added deep-fried buns (golden mantou).
You can now search for spicy.
5.4.2
2023-05-21
Added peach blossom tea.
5.4.0
2023-05-16
Added a note in the docs that if the voice is stuck in Cantonese or Mandarin, try changing the Chinese voice in Settings -> Accessibility -> Spoken Content to one of the Siri voices.
5.3.9
2023-05-10
Added oranges.
5.3.8
2023-05-03
Added sugarcane juice.
5.3.7
2023-04-29
Added fried fish filet.
Added milk tea to the AI.
Updated list of restaurants in Colorado.
5.3.6
2023-04-22
Added Dim Sum Garden in New York City and Flushing, New York.
5.3.4
2023-04-14
It's my birthday, so please buy this app.
Added scallion pancakes to the AI.
Added "buy one, get one free" to Phrases.
Big data reorg, fixed a bunch of typos (and probably added some).
5.3.3
2023-04-10
Added Cora Miao, James Hong, and Victor Wong to Names.
Capitalized Cantonese, Mandarin, and Simplified in the practice screen.
Fixed the back button bug in the practice screen when going back to Phrases, where it was cycling back through previous entries in the list.
5.3.0
2023-03-30
The practice speaking screen is now available for phrases (tap on the ear icon).
The restaurant list is now limited to the United States (sorry, it's just impractical to try to find every dim sum restaurant in the world, and people complain if I miss their city - I'm talking to you, Europe).
Rewrote a bunch of code. You shouldn't notice anything.
5.2.8
2023-03-19
Added Homestyle Dim Sum in Seattle, Washington.
5.2.7
2023-03-15
Added scallop dumplings.
Added cilantro and scallion rice rolls.
Updated to use more iOS 16 APIs (you shouldn't notice a difference, but underneath the code is leaner).
5.2.4
2023-03-03
Added CaeI Oriental Asian Bistro in Sparks, Nevada.
Added satay tofu, chicken and salted fish in noodles, and teapot (non-food vocabulary words can be found via the Search screen).
5.2.3
2023-02-28
Updated the description for Baiyun chicken feet (formerly called sweet and sour chicken feet).
Added "My treat!" and "Let's split the bill!" to Phrases.
Fixed recent bug in Phrases where tapping on one phrase pronounced a bunch of them.
4.7.9
2022-07-31
Added more flaky pastries: mung bean, preserved egg, and lotus seed paste.
Replaced the dish page popup menus with separate screens. That seems to work better.
4.7.3
2022-07-10
Added hot drinks and Yunnan cuisine as a categories.
Added gong-mei ("tribute eyebrow") tea.
Added jasmine honey tea.
4.72
2022-07-07
Added cold drinks as a category.
4.71
2022-07-05
Added more regional cuisines as categories: Shaanxi, Shanghai, Hunan, Chaozhou, and Peking.
4.6.6
2022-06-11
Added cider.
Fixed various links.
4.6.5
2022-05-22
New old feature (or old new feature): tap on the food photo in the dish description screen to see where it was taken.
Added restaurants in Paris.
Some additional notes on potstickers (Peking ravioli for you Bostonians).
4.6.2
2022-05-11
Added steamed egg and eight treasure tea.
4.5.7
2022-05-04
Added tomato and fried egg noodle soup
Updated restaurants in Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, and Mexico
4.5.5
2022-04-14
Added famous people with the same surname as me to Phrases.
Added fish fragrant eggplant (there's no fish).
4.5.0
2022-02-27
Added pork sung (also known as meat floss, but nothing to do with dentistry)
4.4.7
2022-02-06
Added Golden Seafood Restaurant in Edison, New Jersey.
Added stir-fried bok choy in minced garlic.
4.4.6
2022-01-27
Added Dim Sum Sam in New York City.
Added Sichuan garlic cucumber.
Added Corky Lee and Gene Luen Yang to the phrases list of names.
4.4.2
2022-01-15
Added stir-fried rice cake, seafood fried rice, and minced pork with salted fish.
4.4.1
2022-01-07
Added almond tea.
Added Maggie Cheung and Joey Wong to the phrases list of names
(send me your Chinese name if you want to be on the list, or even non-Chinese name, I'll try to figure it out).
4.2.9
2021-10-13
Added support for styled text (bold, italic, links...) in the dish descriptions. iOS 15 is now required.
Added winter melon tea, lemon winter melon tea, mango green tea, passion fruit grean tea, fanta, and black sesame paste.
4.2.4
2021-09-28
Replaced the restaurant popup menu with a screen (works better in iOS 15).
Added oyster sauce as a top category.
3.75
2021-01-10
Added roast duck and fried cuttlefish balls
3.74
2021-01-06
Added Hong Kong-style French toast
Added Ming-Na Wen to names in Phrases (because, Mandalorian)
3.71
2020-12-06
New restaurants!
Timwah Dim Sum in Jacksonville, Florida and Awesome Dim Sum in New York City
3.69
2020-11-22
Added rice wine
3.68
2020-11-14
Added salt and pepper fish and fried spare ribs.
Added Fat's Asian Bistro in Folsom and Roseville, California.
Added steamed rice recognition to the AI.
3.66
2020-11-02
Bug fix: the text-to-speech was sometimes using Mandarin text when speaking in Cantonese and vica versa.
Changing the language or speech rate in the speaking screens are now saved to Settings (although changes directly to settings only take effect when the app launches)
Added a speech rate slider to the Phrases screen.
Resource links have been moved to the top left menu (for now).
3.64
2020-10-25
Tap on the photo button in the dish screens to try out the new dim sum AI (implemented with Apple's Core ML), see how well it recognizes the photo!
3.62
2020-10-11
Updated restaurants in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Merged Northern and Southern California, New York City and Upstate New York.
3.60
2020-09-28
New restaurant: Han Palace in Tysons Corner (Virginia).
Numerous little fixes.
3.52
2020-08-05
Added kung pao chicken and cold cucumber.
Added restaurants in Jakarta.
3.51
2020-07-24
Added restaurants in Singapore
3.47
2020-06-26
Converted the Phrases screen to SwiftUI, added categories including Greetings, Seating, Ordering, Paying...more will follow!
3.46
2020-06-22
Conversion to Apple's new SwiftUI is in progress.
The first screen displays categories instead of all dishes (the list is getting long!), such as dim sum, dessert, drinks, Hong Kong style cafe...
The dish screens have simplified controls, go to the practice screen to play at different speeds and switch among Cantonese, Mandarin traditional, and Mandarin simplified.
3.45
2020-06-06
The practice talking screen is now accessible to everyone (tap the microphone icon at top right).
The Upgrade to Pro option appears when you use the microphone in the practice screen.
The practice screen now has a speech rate slider for playback.
The default speech rate is now a bit faster (but not fast!)
3.43
2020-05-28
Added diet coke (in Chinese, it's a much more enticing "healthy pleasure cola").
Rewrote the code that highlights the Chinese characters during the speech playback.
3.42
2020-05-22
Added some cha chaan teng (Hong Kong style cafe) dishes: Hong Kong milk tea, pineapple bun with butter, and billionaire fried rice!
Upgraded some notifications and popups.
3.38
2020-05-01
Fixed missing photo for red wine ("Red red wine...")
Added orange chicken and cola
3.35
2020-04-09
Added chive pancakes. Like scallion pancakes, you can find them in the freezer section of Asian grocery stores.
Updated the entry for pan-fried sticky rice.
3.34
2020-04-03
Updated entries for scallion pancake and Shanghai dumplings
Added an entry for soup dumplings (Shanghai dumplings are one type)
3.33
2020-03-23
Added blanched lettuce, bok choy, and red bean paste triangles.
Added more restaurants in Malaysia (Kedar and Penang)
3.32
2020-03-16
Added scallion rice rolls and pan-fried rice rolls with XO sauce.
Added restaurants in Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, and Spain.
3.31
2020-02-24
Added pumpkin custard balls, steamed chive dumplings, beef brisket in clear broth, and abalone and chicken in a mantou cup.
Added restaurants in Paris.
3.30
2020-02-20
Added milk oolong tea (not milk tea, this is oolong tea with a naturally milky taste).
Added restaurants in New Zealand and more in Hong Kong.
3.29
2020-02-13
Added hot lemon tea, baby bok choy in garlic sauce, and pan-fried soy sauce noodles.
Added more restaurants in Hong Kong.
Updated some photos.
3.28
2020-02-06
Added beef chow fun.
Added restaurants in Ireland and Australia.
Split Hong Kong restaurant listings into districts.
Removed some restaurants, including Jin Wah in Beaverton (closed) and Northside Cafe in Las Vegas (stopped serving dim sum).
3.27
2020-01-31
Added Chinese hot dog buns, tea eggs, and updated the entry for New Year cake. By the way, Happy Chinese New Year!
Also added restaurants for Tseung Kwan O in Hong Kong.
3.26
2020-01-27
Added restaurants in Canada, Mexico, and Taiwan.
Fixed links to sites that have Chinese characters in their URLs.
3.25
2020-01-20
Added soy eggs (eggs soaked in soy sauce, not eggs made out of soy)
Added more restaurants in Guam and the UK
3.24
2020-01-13
Split restaurants into country/regional listings. Tap on the pin menu at top right to switch among them (currently US, Canada, Mexico, and UK).
Added restaurants in London.
3.23
2020-01-07
Added baozhong (pouchong) tea.
3.22
2020-01-05
Added salted duck eggs (usually eaten with congee).
Fixed the address for House of Chang (it's on Concord Ave. in Cambridge not Concord Ave. in Concord).
3.21
2019-12-31
Added egg white and shrimp spring rolls.
Added support for more info links for restaurants.
3.20
2019-12-26
Added Taiwanese minced pork on rice, dan dan noodles, and high mountain tea.
3.18
2019-12-07
Added some general description of Chinese desserts and Hong Kong-style cafes.
3.17
2019-12-01
Added red oil wonton and osmanthus jelly with goji berries.
Added more Hong Kong restaurants (a lot more!).
Added Hong Kong-style cafes (cha chaan teng) as a top tag.
3.16
2019-11-24
Added BBQ pork on rice and Earl Grey tea.
Added some Hong Kong restaurants (just a sampler!)
Added a link in the Technicat menu to the new support page.
3.15
2019-11-19
Added wor wonton soup and taro fried shrimp.
3.14
2019-11-11
Added more tea, salted egg yolk pastry, curry chicken rice, and walnut soup (dessert)
3.13
2019-11-04
Revamped colors and icons to work with dark mode.
Added iron goddess (an Anxi oolong) tea.
3.12
2019-11-03
Added some bakery items and Lucullus Bakers & Roasters in Markham, Ontario.
3.11
2019-10-28
Added sticky rice dumplings ("Chinese tamales"), pineapple cakes, chicken congee.
3.09
2019-10-24
Fixed Cantonese language links.
3.08
2019-10-22
Added mapo tofu
More details on Chinese chives (ingredient)
3.07
2019-10-17
Added rice roll with shrimp and Chinese chives
3.06
2019-10-12
Added fried smelt.
New photo for vegetable fried rice from the Dim Sum Cafe in Las Vegas (I confess the previous photo was from the frozen section at Trader Joe's).
Reduced file size.
3.05
2019-10-06
Added snow mountain buns, scallop siu mai, and pork belly bao (gua bao)
3.04
2019-10-01
Added sesame balls with molten custard and ice water.
Redoing the user interface with Apple's new SwiftUI, so iOS 13 is now a requirement.
3.03
2019-09-26
Added Tim Ho Wan restaurant opening in Las Vegas (in the Palms!)
3.02
2019-09-05
Added imitation meat cha siu bao, BBQ chicken dumplings, and curry shrimp rice rolls.
3.01
2019-08-21
Added soy sauce.
3.0
2019-08-14
Added wonton soup, Hainanese chicken rice, and rice vinegar (for dipping).
2.99
2019-08-10
Added dim sum restaurants in Saskatchewan.
Adjustments for the new iPod touch.
2.98
2019-08-05
Added vegetarian (imitation meat) siu mai and chive dumplings and a very meaty pork patty with salted egg.
2.97
2019-08-02
Added stir-fried sticky rice, durian puffs, and ice tea (over 200 entries now!)
Added Edmonton restaurants to the Alberta map.
Added Foods 2 Go takeout dimsum in Las Vegas.
Fixed spelling of Jing Fong in NYC and added Tim Ho Wan in Hell's Kitchen.
2.96
2019-07-29
For you non-tea drinkers, added coffee and Pepsi.
Added expensive Las Vegas Strip dim sum.
2.95
2019-07-20
Fixed bao mixup in the previous update (lost Shanghai dumplings, accidentally included Mexican buns which aren't ready yet).
Added a state/province index to the list of dim sum restaurants.
Added restaurants in Winnipeg.
2.94
2019-07-18
Added Alberta (specifically, Calgary)
2.93
2019-07-15
Big Canada update: restaurant maps for Montreal and Vancouver areas!
Fixed the printed pronunciation for vegetable fried rice.
2.90
2019-07-08
Added a map of Chicago dim sum restaurants.
2.89
2019-07-01
Added a map of Seattle-area restaurants.
2.88
2019-06-23
Added Phoenix, Arizona restaurants (only found four, I thought there were more).
2.87
2019-06-11
Expanded the Northern California restaurant map to include Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto.
Added restaurants in Salt Lake City.
2.86
2019-06-03
I'm excited about the Raptors-Warriors series! So this update adds more restaurants to the Bay Area (San Leandro, Pleasanton, and Alameda) and Toronto (Mississauga) maps.
2.85
2019-05-29
Added Chinese sugar doughnuts, pan-fried pork buns, and crab rangoon (that last one is more Chinese American, but whatever).
Added restaurants in Dublin (California, not Ireland).
2.84
2019-05-25
Added sau-mei tea (also known as Longevity Eyebrows tea, there's a story) and sticky rice cake with green tea paste.
Added more restaurants around Toronto and the San Francisco East Bay area.
2.83
2019-05-22
Quick fix in Phrases: had "What do you want to drink?" instead of "What do you want to eat?"
Added more restaurants for Orange County (California), San Diego, and Toronto.
2.82
2019-05-21
Added black sesame rolls.
Added more Los Angeles-area restaurants, including in Chinatown (not as many as you'd expect), but removed Ocean Star Restaurant (I used to go there in the 90s!).
Trying out a chat-style presentation for the Phrases screen.
2.80
2019-05-15
Added fried green tomatoes. Just kidding. Added fried green tea sesame balls.
Also added plain congee and a general description of bao.
Added Dallas-area restaurants and more restaurants in California (Gilroy, Santa Barbara, LA)
Removed ABC Seafood in Foster City (closed)
2.79
2019-05-09
Added fried tofu skin rolls, boiled dumpling soup, and oyster sauce.
Removed one of my old regular spots in San Diego, the Yum Cha Cafe (now closed)
2.78
2019-05-04
Added salt and pepper squid, Chinese sausage, and oxtail soup
Added Washington, DC area restaurants
2.77
2019-04-29
Added Peking duck, mung bean pancake, sweet and sour seafood nuggets.
Changed the Chinese for meatballs.
Added seafood as a filter category in the Dishes screen.
2.76
2019-04-24
Added some not really dim sum (but yummy, and here's your chance to learn to say them in Chinese): vegetable fried rice, shrimp chips, and mochi ice cream.
Reinstated landscape support for iPad (note that the dish description is not visible in landscape, rotate to portrait to see the whole thing).
Removed request to accept notifications (haven't pushed any notifications in five years, probably won't start any time soon...)
2.75
2019-04-18
Added almond-coated shrimp balls, spare ribs on rice rolls, and a general description of the word for "cake" (it's not just for dessert!)
Support for differing Cantonese and Mandarin names, e.g. fried dough is "oil stick" in Mandarin and "oil-fried ghost" in Cantonese (there's a story there...)
Display the Mandarin names in either traditional or simplified characters. Tap on the C/M/S button on the right to toggle between Cantonese, Mandarin traditional, and Mandarin simplified (icons from icons8.com)
Added Kwan's Kitchen in Oklahoma City
2.74
2019-04-12
Added yi mein (longevity noodles), sticky rice cake with black sesame paste, and a mystery dish because I can't remember what else I added (but I know there's a third one).
Added Elite Restaurant in Monterey Park.
Added horn-shaped dumplings as a search category.
2.73
2019-04-05
Added sticky rice cake with red bean paste, sweet potato soup, and pearl shrimp balls.
Revised the category list on the Dishes screen (top right menu).
Fixed the Chinese text for wonton noodle soup.