Dim sum =? savory snack

[Joel S. Berson]

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.

Joel

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