Golden Gate Bakery Sesame Ball: A dim sum classic, fried glutinous rice balls filled with red bean and tossed in toasted sesame seeds are a rare treat often worth the calories. Instead of choosing the default eggtart at San Francisco Chinatown’s Golden Gate Bakery, I selected their take on the sesame ball, seemingly transmogrified to twice its normal size. Barely fitting in my palm, the ball still had the same thin glutinous rice shell you expect but with double the amount of red bean paste inside. As the red bean paste is typically the sweetest part, twice of it set the dessert far over the edge, making it cloying. Further, the ball, while thin, was heavily fried so that grease seeped out unpleasantly after every bite. A good example of when less is more. 2.0/5.0

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