Spoon Steams Up Dim Sum Experience in Apple Valley

The previous tenant’s sign is still displayed above its door, but the new owners of Spoon Fusion Cuisine want to introduce a new kind of dining experience to Apple Valley.

Van Ngo, who owns Spoon with her husband, Kav Theng, said she wanted to bring traditional Vietnamese foods and flavors to Twin Cities area customers.

She said the specialty at the restaurant, which opened in January and is located in the Granada shopping center in the former Song Long location, is Vietnamese soups and stir fry, as well as dim sum, which features “all kinds of dumplings” and rice noodle rolls.

Dim sum is something “many Americans don’t know about but really like” once they try it, Ngo said. Spoon is one of only a handful of restaurants in the Twin Cities that serves dim sum, according to restaurant website Urbanspoon.com

Items available while dim sum is served include shrimp dumplings, steamed barbeque pork buns, pork and peanut dumplings and baked pineapple buns, and most people order several.

Weekends are when Spoon brings something different to its customers with its dim sum offerings, Ngo said. These small dishes are brought to customers’ tables in a cart, where each person can select several different foods, which are then cooked in hot pots at the table, and the dishes are then served family style.

Ngo recommends customers bring a group of friends or family to eat dim sum.

In addition to dim sum, Spoon serves all the dishes found in most Vietnamese- and Chinese-style restaurants. Favorites like pad Thai, sweet and sour pork, fried rice and Vietnamese curry all are available.

But the restaurant also serves items like burgers, club sandwiches and a walleye fillet sandwich.

Ngo said the restaurant already is hosting a number of weddings and other large parties, and recently received a license to serve beer and wine. She said she hopes to add a full bar in the next year.

Spoon is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The restaurant is closed Mondays. Dim sum is available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Prices on most items range from $6.95 to $10.95. A $5.95 lunch menu is also available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Most dim sum items cost between $2.75 and $5.95.

Free delivery is available within one mile of the restaurant with a minimum $15 purchase. Spoon's phone number is 952-891-2668, and it also has a Facebook page.