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Our Asian-cuisine themed designs are not only available here online, they can also be found in some of the most unique boutiques in the city.   This post series highlights the amazing shops that carry our one of a kind line of huggable/wearable yumminess!   Mindzai Creative ShopMindzai is the brainchild of Chris Tsang who in 2006, started a blog about creative culture which grew to an online shop and then expanded into a retail shop featuring unique designer toys, apparel and accessories. It was at Night It Up 2013 when I first met Chris who curiously came over to the..  - Read More

Our original DSC line of Asian-cuisine themed designs are not only available here online, they can also be found in some of the most unique boutiques in the city.   This post series highlights the amazing shops that carry our one of a kind line of huggable/wearable yumminess! Dot’s Gift BoutiqueAt Night It Up 2013, I met Joy Wei who came by our booth and told me she was opening up a store and was interested in carrying our products.  Her store eventually opened in October 2013 with DSC products on their shelves. A novelty gift shop on Yonge just..  - Read More

As one of the most popular Asian street foods around, curry fish balls are a simple yet filling snack that packs a spicy punch. The stalls selling these amazing small eats have it made as just the aroma of curry has the power to draw in any passers-by! There's nothing quite like a skewer of fish balls smothered in savoury thick, oozy curry sauce.   We just had to pay homage to this tasty little snack (big however many you decide to eat!) with this Curry Fish Baller design.  A great gift or self-gift for lovers of Asian snacks and..  - Read More

There will be a couple new designs making their festival debut this summer.  We're excited to announce the arrival of our Eggy Tarts design! Just in time for the Taste of Asia Festival which will take place June 28-29 at Steeles and Kennedy outside of Pacific Mall. Eggy Tarts Design We just had to feature a dessert dish in the line up so what better than our all time favourite custard pastry! These delectable dessert pastries are a staple of the dim sum line up and a must-have at every dim sum meal. Whether at dim sum or at the..  - Read More

Moving along on our summer festivals circuit, we will be our first Taste of Asia this coming weekend June 28-29 at Steeles and Kennedy right outside Pacific Mall.  This is the first of 3 food fest/night markets you'll find us at this and man are we looking forward to all those awesome Asian street eats!  Be sure to come by our booth and check out the new designs that will make their debut at this festival!   - Read More

Hey DSC peeps!  It's that time of the year again. The summer markets and festivals are just around the corner and this year we will be featuring new designs for some of the events we will be at.   Be sure to come out to our booths at these upcoming markets and festivals: June 14-15: TAAFI - Toronto Animation Arts Festival Maarket  (Jonathan Pong Table)http://taafi.com/maarket/ June 21-22: Dragon Boat Race Festival - (Cultural Village) http://dragonboats.com June 28-29: Taste of Asia http://www.culture-canada.ca/index.php/tasteofasia July 4-5: Open Markethttp://www.theopenmarket.ca July 11-13: Night It Up (Across from the stage)http://nightitup.com July 19-20: Toronto Chinatown Festival (On Dundas near Huron)http://www.chinatowntcf.com July 25-27: T&T..  - Read More

As one half of the popular duo that is a veritable must-have at every dim sum meal, Siu Mai (燒賣), that ubiquitous pork dumpling is eaten all over the world in various delicious forms.  (The other half of the duo of course being Har Gow will be featured in a later post so stay tooned!)  The variation that we are spotlighting this week is the Cantonese Siu Mai. This one in particular is associated with traditional Cantonese Dim Sum, made popular by Hong Kong and is the type of dim sum most widely served up by Chinese restaurants in Canada and..  - Read More

How amazing is it that Toronto gets it's own dim sum festival? We were so excited that this was happening, scrambled to get tickets right when their ticket site launched and even more stoked when we got to be a vendor! It was another great event by Suresh Doss (@spotlightcity) and Frank Kocis (@yoyodyne) Really well organized with amazing food vendors dishing out their unique next-level dim sum's and us amongst them dishing out our dim sum plushies and food-themed T-shirts!   We'd like to thank everyone for stopping by and for all your support!  And of course, thank you..  - Read More

That's right folks. We will be celebrating Chinese New Year with the Chinatown BIA at the celebrations in Chinatown! You can find us at the Chinatown Centre both days this weekend from 2pm - 5pm .  See link for more details and we hope to see you there! http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/591df5f4e9bb95b0852572ff00502015/a48c8b3c071c8a0585257c5e005e9c91?OpenDocument  - Read More

Hope everyone's new year is going great!  Time has gone by so quickly, it’s time to celebrate another new year, Chinese new year that is!  Yay! To celebrate the Year Of the Horse, we've hoofed off 18% off everything in the shop!  Just enter code YEAROFTHEHORSE at checkout. Check out our current collection and take home dim sum plushies and food themed graphic tees for the new year! Sale ends Feb.10/14  - Read More

That's right.  Our holiday sales extend into BOXING WEEK with 20% OFF and FREE SHIPPING (in Canada and US) for orders over $50.  Exclusive unique Dim Sum plushies and Asian-cuisine-themed shirts you won't find anywhere else.  Start browsing our collections! Please Note: Free shipping offer is for regular standard shipping.  All prices in Canadian dollars.  - Read More

Yes, that's right.  Well...actually one of our adorable Siu Mai Plushies was gifted as a birthday present to a HK Superstar by the name of Raymond Lam, otherwise known as 林峯 (Lam Fung)!   Check out the video at: http://youtu.be/ql3EdIuSDIM   Special thanks to the Fung Forever Fan Club. And here's the link to the Siu Mai Plushie http://dimsumcityshop.com/collections/plushies/products/siu-mai-plushie   - Read More