Definitions for dim sum
ˈdɪm ˈsʌmdim sum

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1. dim sumnoun

   traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions

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1. dim sumnoun

   A Cantonese-style meal traditionally eaten in late morning or early afternoon comprising tea and food typically placed in small steamer baskets or on small plates and often served from carts that move around from table to table in a restaurant.

2. dim sumnoun

   The food served at a dim sum meal, typically including dumplings, seafood and desserts.

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1. Dim sum

   Dim sum (Chinese: 點心; pinyin: diǎnxīn; Cantonese Yale: dímsām) is a style of Chinese cuisine (particularly Cantonese but also other varieties) prepared as small bite-sized portions of food served in small steamer baskets or on small plate. Dim sum dishes are usually served with tea and together form a full tea brunch. Dim sum traditionally are served as fully cooked, ready-to-serve dishes. In Cantonese teahouses, carts with dim sum will be served around the restaurant for diners to order from without leaving their seats. The Cantonese tradition of having endless cups of tea and dim sum is also called yum cha (飲茶), which means "drink tea" in Cantonese.

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1. dim sum

   Dim sum is a traditional Chinese cuisine style, often served in small steamed or fried bite-size portions. It typically involves a wide variety of dishes, including dumplings, rice rolls, buns, pastries, and other items, often served in bamboo steamers. Dim sum, which translates to "touch the heart," is traditionally consumed as brunch or lunch and is commonly enjoyed with tea in a social setting, an event referred to as 'yum cha' or 'drinking tea'.

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1. Dim sum

   Dim sum refers to a style of Cantonese food prepared as small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. Dim sum is also well known for the unique way it is served in some restaurants, whereby fully cooked and ready-to-serve dim sum dishes are carted around the restaurant for customers to choose their orders while seated at their tables. Eating dim sum at a restaurant is usually known in Cantonese as going to "drink tea", as tea is typically served with dim sum.

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1. dim sum

   Dim Sum means "from the heart" in Chinese.

   Along the silk roads of China small Chinese tea houses were made for merchants traveling and they added small dish snacks- Dim Sum ,which means from the heart

   
   

   Submitted by JP03 on June 11, 2015  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dim sum in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dim sum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of dim sum in a Sentence

1. Robert Byrne:

   Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dim sum
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dim_Sum
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_Sum
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dim sum