Dim sum =? savory snack

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

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> How about "in Cantonese cooking, small dishes of food often served from carts in a restaurant."
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> Dim sum is served outside strictly Cantonese restaurants now,

I've had good dim sum in a Hunanese restaurant.  Maybe "Chinese" would be safer.

> I think, so perhaps that is too restrictive. Also, maybe "often served" should be "traditionally served" or "typically served."
Sounds good to me.  (On various levels.)
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> I've eaten tapas and pintxos only in three or four places. In my experience, tapas are not necessarily snacks, though pintxos are. (I've eaten a whole meal on pintxos, but it took quite a few dishes…) The non-savory dishes I definitely recall are dates and chocolate. I think the dates had cheese inside, but the chocolate simply was not savory by any means.
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Well, presumably it would be in the broader sense (= 'tasty, appetizing'), in which case it's not opposed to "sweet".

LH

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