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In article <46n6dd$f0e@mr-skullhead.cs.utexas.edu>, joel@cs.utexas.edu
(Joel Daniel Just) wrote:

>OK, Ron, you wanna repeat that in English?  Some of us reading this thread
>on dfw.singles may not be familiar with dim sum.  I gather from context
>that it is sum...I mean..some type of food?

It's a Chinese a-la-carte breakfast.  They come by your table with various
things, which you then take or not, and you share them with the people at
your table.  It's fun.  It can be bizzare: I had snails before I realized
what they were (edible but chewy) and got this White Gelatinous Cube which
was smaller than 10M (more like 5cm) which turned out to be a coconut
desert-type thing: yum!  There were other things which don't stand out in
my mind.

Anyway, I did this with friends in Boston's Chinatown.  It was the three
of us on one side of a round table, and a bunch of Chinese people on the
other side.  I had the impression that they were saying to each other,
"Look at the stupid Americans!  They have no idea what they're doing." but
they were polite.  That was why I took the snails, as they'd had a bowl of
them and just downed them all, so I figured they might be interesting...
and we ate forever and only paid something like $3.50/person.  It was
amazing!  Worth doing if you can find a good place for it.

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