In the history of Birmingham Friday 6 May 2022 was a mildly important date as it was then that the votes were counted at the Utilita Arena in the Gas Street Basin area, the votes having been cast the day before in the 4 yearly elections for the city’s council. I had stood as a candidate in a ward where my party did not stand a chance (someone has referred to it as a socialist republic which it proved to be) but it had been an exciting morning watching as the vote counting went on and listening to, and passing on, rumours of how our various candidates were getting on.
The day had started early and standing around keeping an eye on the counting was more tiring than it sounds and by late lunchtime, as I walked back to New Street station through Brindley Place, I was feeling decidedly peckish - no, actually I was really quite ravenous. The sensible idea of lunching somewhere in Brindley Place popped into my mind but where exactly? Well, Lulu Wild looked promising and I had been ‘fancying a Chinese’ for a while when I came to think about it. So I ventured in.
The menu lured me into cocktails and dim sum. I thoroughly enjoyed my two cocktails and was delighted with the dim sum. It was one of those meals where I did a little contented purring during it and, quite unusually for me, ordered extra food. And purred again.
Great pleasure was extracted from each of the supreme dim sum - one each of prawn dumpling with pomegranate, scallop shui mai with tobiko, chicken and vegetable dumpling and Shanghai vegetable and mushroom dumpling. Great pleasure equally sprang from the pan-fried dim sum - Shanghai pork and chive dumpling, pan-fried prawn dumpling, chicken and vegetable dumpling and Shanghai vegetable and mushroom dumpling. Then, as reported above, so consumed with the pleasure of it all was I that I had another plate of pan-fried dim sum. It was all a very enjoyable experience - excellent service, a colourful happy decor, comfortably relaxing atmosphere. Just what you want for an unplanned lunch or even a planned one for that matter. Now I’m at home again I have a renewed lust for the dim sum so a return soon is a necessity.
For the record, Lulu Wild opened in Birmingham in September 2021.
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