What is it called when you eat a range of Chinese dishes selected from a trolley?

Answer 1

In China servers push carts around the room that are full of plates with different dim sum pastries. This is a part of the fun of a dim sum meal presentation. Instead of choosing all the pastries at once, diners keep choosing different ones throughout the meal. At the end of the meal the number of plates are counted and the bill calculated.

Having a meal in a Chinese teahouse or a dim sum restaurant is known as yum cha literally "drinking tea", as tea is typically served with dim sum.Yum cha a term in the Cantonese spoken variant of Chinese which refers to the custom of eating small servings of different foods while sipping Chinese tea in southern China.

There are hundreds of varieties of dim sum. Some are savory dumplings (steamed or fried), pancakes, buns, or noodles. They may be filled with vegatables or meats. Other dim sum are sweet pastries.

A few typical dim sum selections that are delicious to eat include: Stuffed crab claws, stuffe bean curd , stuffed lotus leaves, scallion pancakes, pork buns, dumplings, and shrimp dumplings.

Dim Sum is usually though of as a Cantonese specialty. It is a specialized Chinese cuisine that requires ingredients that are easily found at a Chinese or other Asian grocery store. Dim sum dishes can be ordered from a menu or sometimes the food is wheeled around on a trolley by servers for diners to choose from.

Dim sum is a Chinese light meal or brunch served with Chinese tea. It is eaten some time from morning to early afternoon with family or friends. ♥

Answer 2

hi, the "dishes from the trolley" are all called as "dim sum"
of course different types of dim sum have their own names (like "siew mai" ; "ha gau" etc) but dim sum is like a general word for all types.

the action of you going to eat dim sum is called "yum cha" in cantonese, which means "drink tea" literally. in cantonese, "yum" means drink; and "cha" means tea. i am not too sure why they call it "yum cha" or drink tea, but i suppose it's because we always have dim sum with tea. for instance, when you go to chinese restaurant in hong kong to have dim sum, they will serve you tea and not coffee or other things.

sometimes you will hear people say "yum zhou cha". "zhou" means early/morning. so it means "drink morning tea" literally translated. mostly chinese have dimsum as breakfast, (although sometimes dimsum can be during tea time or as supper) so, sometimes the cantonese will say "yum zhou cha" to mean to have dim sum as breakfast

since its origin was a chinese practice, it's considered as foriegn to the english language and i suppose we dont have an exact english term to call the action. unless it is so widely used everywhere esp in western countries that dictionaries include "yum cha" as a foreign word, till then we can just say "we eat dim sum" that's all.

Answer 3

Yum cha!

Dim sim, or dim sum is one of the dishes!

Answer 4

yum-cha! or also known as dim-sum. the food served on trolleys is something to do with being "a-la-carte".^-^

Answer 5

eating a range of chinese dishes selected from a trolley. or airplane food on a chinese airline.

Answer 6

Dim sum.

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Answer 10

dim sum - i think it means little serving, like Spanish tapas, but not necessarily appetizers like tapas.