Dim Sum

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(thing) by BigCujo (?) (print) ? I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:51:45

Literally, "little jewels." A lovely Cantonese brunch, comprising hundreds of types of little dumplings, cakes, and such. Of course, you must try them all, even the chicken's feet. Consumed with copious amounts of tea. Note: a Dim Sum parlor is not the best place to take a vegetarian.

(thing) by Jinmyo (2.3 y) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sat Apr 08 2000 at 13:52:28

Dim Sum:

After first appearing in English in 1948, the Chinese dim sum, the name of bite-sized dumplings filled with seafood and meat, went through numerous spellings - including deem sum, tim-sam, dim sim and tim sun - before returning to its original form, dim sum in the early 1980s.

Translated literally, the name means speck heart, but more idiomatically the phrase suggests a little something that "touches" your heart and invigorates it.

- "Cupboard Love: a Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities."

(thing) by Wintersweet (1.1 y) (print) ? I like it! Sat Apr 08 2000 at 14:52:58

"Dim sum" is a rendition of the Cantonese pronunciation for the characters a little bit and heart. In Mandarin, it is pronounced "dian xin." Frequently sold on carts on the streets in China, there are dim sum restaurants in many American cities, from San Francisco to Dallas. It was traditionally a breakfast or brunch meal in China, but has become more generic in recent years; there are even dessert varieties. Many dim sum restaurants in the USA are a la carte, with your tab tallied by the number of platters on your table at the end of the meal.

(thing) by gn0sis (3.6 wk) (print) ? I like it! Wed Dec 05 2001 at 17:13:20

One minor correction: dim sum (点心) are what you eat, but the experience of eating them in company with large quantities of tea is yum cha (飲茶 in traditional style).

There used to be a Dim Sum metanode linking up all of DMan's scrumptious recipes (and probably a few others), but as far as I can see it has disappeared off of the face of Everything. An attempt at a recreation -- compiled by hand by wading through 800+ writeups, mind you -- can now be found within the Cookery catalogue at Cookery : Recipes, regional : China : Cantonese.

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Chinese Recipes	Yum Cha	Shrimp Dumplings with Crab Ovaries	Dim mak
Steamed pork buns	chicken feet	Crisp-cased Egg Tarts	Gong xi fa cai
Cookery	I love the smell of Yum Cha in the morning (Spring 01 Sydney noder meet) Malarkey? or Effective Way?	Shallow-fried Pancake Rolls with Eggs	Traditional Mini Spring Rolls
DIMM	McGuffin	Racism in the music industry	Chinese food
MSG	Elvis Costello	Paper Wrapped Shrimp Rolls	I'M GUNNA BE WICKED RETAHDED: Come for the scenery, stay for the BAP (another E2 nodah pahty)
Dumpling	Cantonese	a la carte	Chinese restaurant

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