Ah, the Empress. Good dim sum there. If you’re ever back in Denver, there are actually three very good ones in that general vicinity. Empress, King’s Land to the immediate east and across the street, and Mee Yee Lin to the immediate west and across the street.
Squid tentacles, duck tongues, chicken feet and fish swim-bladders?
That is really extremly gross. Are those even tasty shudders What happened to the normal pasta at resturants?
Dunno about the tongues and swim bladders, but the chicken feet are damn tasty. Sucking the sautee’d tender flesh off the tiny bones of the chicken feet is one of the few fun things you can do with your mouth that doesn’t require a partner. 
rjung I thought you were meant to eat the bones and all of chicken feet, was I just being whooshed by my Chinese friend?
Squid tenticles are quite plesent, can’t see what might be bad about ducks tongues (except for the fact that the size is likely to be a bit small). Fish swim bladders seem pointless (the swim bladder is just a boyancy sack in fish that is filled partialy with air and water if I remember my Biology). And Sea Cucumber which I mentioned earlier as a possibility for the OP’s unidentified meat is surprisingly pleasent.
No, with chicken feet you just gnaw off the meat (well, the skin I guess) and suck on the cartilage. At least, I’ve never seen anybody try to chew the bones. I guess you could break them open and suck the marrow out if you really wanted to…
When I asked my girlfriend (a Miss Huang, if that adds any weight) she seemed to think that the name of the food was also equivalent with beef tripe, but I’ll ask her again for clarification since her response was a little off-hand (“Oh, yeah, that’s definitely tripe”) and she might have just been responding to the description.
Mmm, squid. Squid tentacles are like the tender beef jerky of the sea. Squid tentacle seafood salad’s really great…
Figures I’d speak to her immediately after posting.
She says no, she doesn’t recognize the word, she just thinks the description sounds exactly like beef tripe. Ah, well. It does sound Japanese, but none of my Japanese dictionaries have anything like that. (Actually, it sounds like the name of a demon or something, if it were Japanese…)
This thread is starting to seriously make me hungry for some good Chinese food…
I would be completely ready to accept that its beef tripe, except that I’ve found several images of beef trip on the internet, in dim sum form, and none of it looks like what I ate, perhaps maybe someone could find an image of what they think it is I ate? Maybe I should just go back to looking.
Oh, and Mearl Dox, I’ll double check the name with the people I ate there with, and, I agree with this thread creating cravings for good chinese, so I need to ask again, anyone know of Dallas Dim Sum? Maybe surrounding area? .)