HK - Yum cha or dim sum

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Yum cha or dim sum

The small, delicate dishes of dim sum have spread around the world, following Cantonese people wherever they went, but one of the best places to get them is still Hong Kong. There are plenty of places here to go for yum cha (literally “drink tea,” used to describe the experience of eating dim sum in a restaurant) and just as many where you can buy dim sum piecemeal on the street.

While Sunday mornings usually involve a trip to some giant restaurant with hundreds of seats and harried waiters, my favourite dim sum experiences have been had in small, neighbourhood restaurants, where people wander in with a couple of friends for a laid-back dim sum lunch or dinner. These are, along with cha chaan teng, Hong Kong’s traditional neighbourhood cafés.