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    Your Ultimate Field Guide to Chinese Dim Sum

    By | Shine Food – Sun, Feb 19, 2012 10:20 PM EST

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    Dim Sum 101
    Historically, this Cantonese meal is served from morning until midafternoon, about the same hours as breakfast and brunch. It's also called yum cha, a reference that ... more 
    Photo by: YumSugar
    Dim Sum 101
    Historically, this Cantonese meal is served from morning until midafternoon, about the same hours as breakfast and brunch. It's also called yum cha, a reference that translates to "drinking tea." Tea is an essential part of the experience: its astringency is a necessary foil to the ritual's rich dishes.
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    February's National Hot Breakfast Month, and we've offered up warm and comforting recipes to get your day started. But it'd be impossible to ignore what is arguably the best hot breakfast of all: the tradition of Chinese dim sum. Dim sum (which technically translates to "point of the heart") can be a disorienting ritual: unrecognizable food being wheeled around in carts, waiters who only speak Cantonese, and an endless number of dumplings and buns. We're here to save you from the confusion of the process, as we present to you our ultimate field guide on the subject. We promise, you'll never be scared to order dim sum again! Check out more on our dim sun down low here.


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