Dim sum =? savory snack

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 8/17/2011 08:10 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> I was thinking more of the practice of bringing a special item on
>> one dish resting on another one, so that when they total up the
>> dishes at the end of the feast (snackfest?), those special items
>> will count double.  At least that's how the places in the respective
>> S.F. and NYC Chinatowns used to do it.
>
> Perhaps the following is for DARE?  In Boston (NYC is too far in the
> past for me to remember) I don't recall doubled plates; rather, the
> plates had different shapes that correlated with the prices.
>
And evidently there are current dialects that go by colors rather than shapes or numbers.  Let a hundred dim sum (bill counting methods) bloom!

LH

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