Dim sum =? savory snack

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/18/2011 09:28 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

and, as Victor has reminded me, baskets ,,,

>had different shapes that correlated with the prices.

And, obviously, the waiter counted the baskets at the end of the meal.

Joel

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