Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m

Roger Mills scripsit:

> According to my sources, dim sum means something like "touch the heart".
The first element means "drop, spot, speck", something like that.
The Mandarin equivalent is given by AHD as dian3 + xin1, but whether
that is an actual Mandarin phrase is unclear.

> I didn't discover Chinese food until age 20 or so, in Boston.  There was a
> Chin. restaurant in Sioux Falls SD, which specialized only in chop suey and
> chow mein AFAIK
It's said that there is no city in the world without a Chinese restaurant
and associated (usually Cantonese-speaking) community.  This obviously
depends heavily on the definition of "city".

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