{"id":3787,"date":"2013-01-04T03:57:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2013-01-07T04:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T11:16:03","slug":"dim-sum-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/04\/dim-sum-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dim Sum For Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/luckypeach\/the-essential-guide-to-dim-sum\" target=\"_blank\">from BuzzFeed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"post-title\">The Essential Guide To Dim\u00a0Sum<\/h1>\n<p><i>by\u00a0<a id=\"anonymous_element_2\" href=\"http:\/\/carolynjphillips.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Phillips<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/webdr03\/2012\/12\/28\/16\/enhanced-buzz-14662-1356730925-5.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, dim sum was a verb that merely meant \u201cto eat a little something.\u201d Cantonese dim sum culture began in tearooms in the latter half of the nineteenth century in the city of Guangzou, possibly because of the recent ban of opium dens. It spread and gained popularity\u2014especially in nearby Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The sort of dim sum restaurant we\u2019re familiar with today in the West originated in Hong Kong in the mid-1950s. These Hong Kong parlors had areas for banquets and even mah-jongg games, and carts pushed by \u201caunties\u201d (<i>a\u2019sam<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Know exactly how to order thanks to this breakdown of 24 dishes, including photos and Chinese pronunciation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/luckypeach\/the-essential-guide-to-dim-sum\" target=\"_blank\">click to study yummy Dim Sum Field Guide @ BuzzFeed<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BuzzFeed The Essential Guide To Dim\u00a0Sum by\u00a0Carolyn Phillips In the beginning, dim sum was a verb that merely meant \u201cto eat a little something.\u201d Cantonese dim sum culture began in tearooms in the latter half of the nineteenth century in the city of Guangzou, possibly because of the recent ban of opium dens. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}