Chicago Breakfast at 88 Market – Blue Sky Dim Sum & Northeast Chinese

Both restaurants are inside 88 Market and share a common dining area. Blue Sky Dim Sum 🍜 Rice Noodle Roll (Cheong Fun) – Lived up to the hype! The best I’ve had in the U.S. 😋 The soy sauce was aromatic, though the shrimp portion was a bit skimpy. 🦐 Shrimp Dumplings – Filling made of shrimp paste + whole shrimp, lightly seasoned (depends on shrimp freshness) — I’d give it 75/100. 🥟 Soup Dumplings – Seasoning, wrapper, and broth were good, but the meat filling had a faint porky odor 🐷. 🥛 Soy Milk – Watery and bland — worse than Northeast Chinese’s version. 🌯 Steamed Tofu Skin Roll – Homemade style but unseasoned, with very little filling — just okay. Northeast Chinese 🥣 Tofu Pudding (Dou Hua) – Tofu itself was decent (70/100), but the savory topping was weak (40/100) — failed overall. 🍩 Youtiao (Fried Dough Stick) – Tasted like the real deal, but served cold and slightly greasy 😔. 🥤 Soy Milk – Average, no strong soybean flavor — not as good as Phoenix Restaurant’s. 🥟 Chive Pocket – A letdown! More like a thin, three-ingredient pancake with just one tiny shrimp. One side of the wrapper was thick, the other thin, and the filling was bland + skimpy — tasted like plain oily dough 😞. Final Take: ✅ Blue Sky Dim Sum is pretty solid overall. ❌ Northeast Chinese feels like they’re wasting good ingredients — The youtiao could be amazing if fresh out of the fryer, and the chive pocket would be decent with more salt and double the filling. #ChicagoEats #DimSum #ChineseBreakfast #88Market #FoodReview #ChicagoFoodie