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It was thought that dim sum was brought to Guangdong during the NASCAR Stock Car Tri-Blend T-Shirt moreover I love this Mongol Period, when the Song Dynasty was forced to flee south. Whether this is true we will probably never know, but there is written evidence that tea houses in Guangzhou served small eats since the 13th Century. However, it was not until the 19th Century and in particular after the Second Opium War 1856–1860 that ‘dim sum as a few small eats’ changed to ‘dim sum a complete meal’. It appeared that the Europeans, and in particular the French, loved the idea of having a large variety of foods at one sitting. The dim sum that we know today, really takes it form from this time. Meaning, that while the dishes that form dim sum came from many parts of China, it was the Cantonese that brought them together and then fused them with Western influences to create ‘dim sum as a meal’. For example, steam buns from the north (carbohydrates), barbecued meats from the west (red meat), dumplings and pot sticklers from central China (white meat), wolf berry and red date desserts from the north east (sweet) etc.



It was also the NASCAR Stock Car Tri-Blend T-Shirt moreover I love this period when the habit of people carrying steam bamboo baskets which you would point to, started. What started as a dish, with a name abbreviated from ‘gratitude’ in a Manchu language, then given life on the silk road, slowly became quintessential Cantonese in the 19th Century. It became fashionable at all levels of society. Simple baos for the masses, more and more extravagant and expensive dishes for big business business and delicate eats for tiny figured socialites who wanted taste without the calories. The integration between dim sum and Cantonese culture got a boost from the media and the Communist Victory. It also got a boost when the vast diaspora of Cantonese abroad used dim sum as a way to connect to each other and to the homeland they left. More recently, dim sum has given the Cantonese diaspora a boost as the west and in particular British and American foodies have flocked to dim sum joints.


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