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[Image: Three pieces of dim sum in a bamboo steamer basket: siu mai (燒賣) and har gow (蝦餃) in the foreground, and cha siu bao (叉燒包) in the background.]

Hello! I've finished moving house and so am back to blogging again. That means it's dim sum time! As previously mentioned, throughout August I'll be posting on two dim sum dishes per week, along with my regular character posts (concept posts are temporarily suspended and will return in September).

Dim sum month is not just for reading and writing about dim sum, though — it's also about eating dim sum. I already have lunches lined up with various people, but if you're not among those people, and you'd like to eat dim sum with me in London this month, please let me know! There's still room in my calendar.

For a quick refresher on how dim sum works, see my dim sum post from last year; and for a list of dim sum dishes I've already posted about, see my dish index.

Characters mentioned in this post:

包/bāo (bun/package/bundle)

Other related posts:

dim sum (點心/diǎn xīn)

If you have any questions or corrections, please leave a comment (here's how) and let me know (or email me at kake@earth.li). See my introductory post to the Chinese menu project for what these posts are all about.

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Aw, I wouldn't say I'm exactly an expert :) But I would love to have dim sum with you — have just replied to your message.

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