I can't recall since when my family have developed a habit to yum cha every weekend, yum cha is a noun in cantonese which basically means to eat dim sum and drink chinese tea at the chinese restaurant.
Tourists often feel a bit overwhelmed when they are presented with the long list of dim sum order sheet, wondering what should they order or what are the most famous dishes. I can't say my suggestions are the best but I would suggest our tourist friends to eat SiuMai (燒賣), which is appeared at the right bottom corner on the above picture, this is a must-eat (I guess) dim sum at the Chinese restaurant, but beware if you are allergic to prawn (like me><). Other dishes include rice noodle rolls (sorry that I don't have a picture here, will shoot it next time~), usually there are plain rice noodle roll / with barbecue pork inside / beef inside / vegetable or mushroom inside / seafood inside. Okay, other good dim sum in my opinion includes the Chinese bun (barbecue pork or chicken or the sweet ones), beef balls, prawn dumplings, normal dumplings, congee, and dessert like the sesame rice ball at the right top corner!
If you are crazy about dim sum, even if you pick any on the list randomly, it can't go very wrong...LoL
Yum Cha is something we must do when we are visiting in China, a very good way to enjoy food, tea and to explore the culture. Many visitors can master chopsticks even better than me because they really love Chinese food, I am really proud of our food and culture! :)


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