[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2334 - 12 msgs

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In a message dated 8/27/2002 10:11:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:


> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] tea question, 2nd attempt
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>
> > Me: > I believe what you are looking for can be found under the general
> > category
> > > of Dim Sum, which I understand to mean "little hearts" and which are
> > > the various bite-size things that you eat at a tea house.
> >
> > Avraham:  Correct, except I remember being told that "dim sum" translates
> to
> > "small
> > foods".
>
> Someone told you wrong.  It's Cantonese.  "Touching the Heart" is another
> interpretation.  Of course, the book from which I learned that is at home
> and
> I'm at work.  I think it was THE DIM SUM BOOK BY Eileen Yin-Fei Lo.  Amazon
> says
> it is out of print and quite collectible, gee!
>
> Selene Colfox
>
>