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Here are some guidelines to tackle your dim sum brunch:
How Dim Sum is Served
Dim Sum is served traditionally for breakfast or brunch, restaurants in Hong Kong start serving them as early as 6:30 a.m. Nowadays many restaurants offer them at all times, at dinner they can be often ordered as appetizers.
Dim Sum is either served
In Trolleys carrying the baskets with all the different kinds of dim sum. The servers and their carts come around the tables, where you simply point at the dishes. This is the more fun and easy way, specially if you don't know the names, you simply point at what looks good to try it.
A la carte, you get a checklist in which you mark what you would like to have and the server will bring your dim sum to the table fresh from the kitchen.
Checklists are often in both English and Chinese except for the smaller establishments that cater mostly to locals.
If you don't know what to order, take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the different kinds (see below), or at any rate, just point at what your neighbor in the next table is having that looks good.

Dim Sum is served with tea. Tea is what had the Dim Sum tradition started in Canton. Originally, tea houses operating in the roadsides started serving small bites with their tea to the weary travelers. The small dishes eventually became very popular and the dim sum tradition was born. Tea Pot
While the small dishes are known as Dim Sum, the Dim Sum meal is referred as Yum Cha, which literally means to "drink tea".

Tea is still very much a part of the meal. This will be the first thing your server will bring as soon as you sit down at your table and will be continiously replenished throughout your meal.

When you are running low, just leave the lid of the teapot ajar, or off to indicate your server to bring some more.

What to eat?
There are dumplings, rolls, cakes, wraps, and small dishes with meats, vegetables, rice, noodles... some are steamed, some braised, some pan-fried, some boiled, some deep-fried to a crisp ... there will definitely be something for everyone.

All are savory on their own, but it's also customary to dip them in your favorite sauce or combination of sauces: soy sauce, sesame oil, chilli sauce or paste or oil, vinegar, add a dash of pepper or some fresh spring onions or cilantro...


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