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Jachut · December 29, 2006

We call that sort of Chinese meal Yum Cha and it has lots of other things besides dim sims.

Dim sims are kind of the layman's chinese over here, you get them in any takeaway store, steamed or deep fried, at the footy, at the school canteen, in the fish and chip shop, frozen in the freezer section at the supermarket. In fact we had steamed dim sims and home made fried rice for dinner last night. But real Chinese ones are great.

We also have a thing very similar to a dim sim called a Chiko Roll, its an Aussie Icon. Nobody has ever worked out what is actually in the things, they're like a big long deep fried spring roll, but you may as well shove them down your aorta as eat them, they're going to end up there anyhow, lol.

green · December 29, 2006

Interesting, in the land of Oz you call it Dim Sims and up here in the Great White North we call it Dim Sum.... You are so lucky that you can get them in any take away.

(Speaking of the Great White North (which is what we sometimes call Canada), thanks to global warming or whatever it is still very green where I live. No snow, eh.)

And yep, pot stickers are dim sum, Argon. As for the chow mein biz, I have had both dishes passed off to me as chow mein but I think that one is actually lo mein.

Cloe: your chopsticks idea is brilliant! I went to the Chinese buffet restaurant last night with my husband and the Chinese family. I ate slowly and I did not PB! This was a relief. My hostess was concerned that I was not eating enough and thus didn't like the food. I had to reassure her that I did and I went back for seconds. It was a good thing that the plates were normal size and not the huge platters that are now the fashion in many Toronto restaurants. The dessert thing was made easier because they served a lot of different fruits along with the usual cakes, etc.