Lulu Asian Kitchen, St. Louis

What began as an unassuming Chinese eatery in 1993 has turned into a small dim sum empire in the STL area, and LuLu Chinese & Dim Sum comes as its newest addition. Like its predecessors, the restaurant boasts authentic Chinese cuisine, with a focus on healthy meals and sharable servings of cooked veggies, dumplings, and meat dishes. It also has the same welcoming atmosphere found at other LuLu locations, a mark of the family-run group of establishments where anyone might be called "ayi" (auntie) or "da ge" (big brother) in Chinese.