Garden owned other dim sum restaurants in Philadelphia. In July 2016, Philly Dim Sum Garden (“Garden”) doing business as Tom’s Dim Sum opened (along with another corporate partner) a trendy dim sum restaurant in Media, Pennsylvania. It just doesn’t work that way, which is why a recent dispute in our hometown of Media, Pennsylvania raised some eyebrows. Obviously, unrelated owners of the same or confusingly similar trademark cannot successfully do business in the same geographical area. If they did, consumers – you and me – would be naturally confused over the source and quality of the goods or services, which in turn would affect the economic viability of the businesses using the trademarks. Whether or not the trademark is registered or common law, the priority user is the one who used it first. Federally registered trademarks provide a presumption of validity throughout the whole country, whereas common law trademarks are valid only within the geographical region of use. Often these disputes involve common law trademarks, not marks registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. One well-known dispute you may know about involved the Olivieri family members who sued each other over ownership of the PAT’S KING OF STEAKS trademark, a well-known Philadelphia cheesesteak brand. Frankly, pizza and cheesesteak establishments are just not that creative when it comes to choosing distinctive names. I’ll be back with a report on another of those in the next day or two.It’s not uncommon for our office to receive calls from restaurant owners, complaining that another restaurant in town is infringing its trademark. I hope you’ve enjoyed this little between-cheesesteaks interlude. It’s always the vegetable dish that falls by the waste-side when I’m responsible for ordering! By the time we realized that, we were getting full and decided to skip it. I was also supposed to order a green-beans dish, bug forgot to do so. One could fill up just by sampling the various dumplings on Dim Sum Mania’s menu. The one dish we shared was pan-fried pork and chive dumplings. At that point, after removing the cilantro, I dumped most of the pork on top of the rice. I held off on digging into the roast pork until my shrimp fried rice arrived. Get that cilantro off my honey-roasted pork! Pork Egg Rolls I may as well throw out that we also can’t stand blue cheese although I generally feel safe in that regard at Chinese restaurants. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned the extent to which both my wife and I absolutely hate the taste of cilantro. The honey-roasted pork was very good, but I was unhappy to see it garnished heavily with cilantro. The egg rolls had a remarkably crispy crust and were full of fresh-looking vegetables although I had a tough time finding any pork in them. Next up were my pork egg rolls and honey-roasted pork two longtime favorites. As luck would have it, the first two to arrive were my wife’s cold cucumber salad and cold spicy noodles. As my regular readers know, I have a deep love for old-school Cantonese and like having the option of ordering a mix of it and dim sum.Īt these types of small-plates Chinese restaurants, they bring out the dishes in whatever order that they are ready. I guess dim sum-only is a tough sell in the suburbs. Media, PAīoth Dim Sum Mania and Tom’s Dim Sum, which is two doors west of DSM, have gradually expanded their menus, adding more old-school Cantonese, Szechuan and Hong-Kong style dishes. It’s not as much fun as the old-school dim sum palaces, but these places still generally do a good job when it comes to preparing the food and Dim Sum Mania is no exception. Dim Sum mania, along with a number of other similarly-themed restaurants in the Philly region that have popped up over the past decade or so, has a more modern vibe – and decor – and presents its offerings on a menu. But those meals were, for the most part, at old-fashioned restaurants that featured servers wheeling around carts with a variety of small plates for the choosing. During that time, we ate our share of dim sum. I settled on one of them – Dim Sum Mania – for our dinner spot.īefore moving to the suburbs, we lived in Philadelphia’s Chinatown for eight years. There are two dim sum-themed Chinese restaurants across the street from Trader Joe’s. While that selection includes a couple pretty good cheesesteak shops that I’ve already written about, I wanted something different and also figured I’d give my wife a break. It’s got a nice little downtown with a pretty good selection of restaurants that we’ve been sampling since moving from the city to Delco a decade ago. Media is the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. I never need to be asked something like that a second time. My wife said the magic words to me Sunday: “Would you like to go to Trader Joe’s tonight? You can pick a place for us to have dinner near there.”
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