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.
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