A new concept has officially launched, after a soft launch period, Ding Dong Dim Sum, which delivers a frozen, prepared, ready-to-cook dim sum meal to the customer's door to most of the UK.
Tom Greenwood-Mears and Maya Rodricks created the company following redundancy during lockdown, sharing a love of dim sum and believing that delicious dumplings don’t do so well on the back of a takeaway driver’s scooter.Their dim sum arrives frozen to lock in flavour and the structure of the dumplings.
Ding Dong wants to make it easy for Dim Sum lovers to enjoy their favourite food every week. Not everyone has a lovely bamboo steamer in their kitchen, and so the team has developed their very own biodegradable steamer to send out with each order.
The meal kits are split into Ding Dong Favourites; Surf & Turf; Veggie Patch; Meat & Few Veg; Just Meat; and A Bit of Everything. As well as the steamer, each box contains a feast of dumplings, gyoza, siu mai, bao buns, sticky rice, salad and dips.
Dishes include classics such as Char Siu bun (the classic salty and sweet pork sat inside a beautifully fluffy bun); Prawn & pork siu mai (a classic, minced pork and prawns sitting in little golden parcels); Prawn Har Kau (prawn filled, silky white dumplings) or vegetarian options of Mixed vegetable and potato Japanese gyoza; Spicy tofu and vegetable dumplings; and Mushroom and veg bun - to name a few.
Each box comes with a carrot slaw kit for a make-your-own accompaniment made up of carrots, spring onion, chilli and a slaw tang alongside sticky rice.
Each box is wrapped up in an eco-friendly natural insulator of wool. Polystyrene-free, all packaging is either recyclable or biodegradable with a full list on how to dispose of each item on the brand's website.
