Learn Chinese. Yum Cha / Dim Sum in Cantonese. 飲茶 / 點心 – 粵語

Yum cha [飲茶] in the Cantonese language means “drink tea”.
[飲] means “to drink”, and [茶] means “tea”.

A long held Cantonese tradition is to drink tea accompanied by a couple dishes of dim sum [點心] in the morning. Dim Sum roughly translates to a “touch of heart”, is a wide assortment of savoury and sweet dishes in bite size serving.

The practice of having dim sum with tea eventually evolved into the modern yum cha we have today.

Expand your vocabulary by learning the names of a selection of Dim Sum dishes in Cantonese with this fun video.

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Vocabulary in this video:
0:03 Yum Cha
0:07 Dim Sum
0:13 har gau prawn dumpling
0:24 sui mai pork dumpling
0:32 spinach and scallop dumpling
0:41 prawn and chive dumpling
0:50 Chiu-Chow style dumpling
0:58 potsticker dumpling
1:06 soup dumpling
1:14 spare ribs in black bean sauce
1:23 beef tripe (albert yip)
1:32 chicken feet
1:41 lo mai gai – glutinous rice chicken
1:52 turnip cake
2:02 fried taro dumpling
2:10 fried pork dumpling
2:19 stuffed tofu
2:27 beancurd sheet roll
2:36 bbq pork cheung fun
2:44 prawn cheung fun
2:53 beef cheung fun
3:01 fried dough cheung fun
3:10 plain cheung fun
3:18 panfried cheung fun (with dried shrimp)
3:27 bbq pork bun
3:35 chicken bun
3:44 custard bun
3:54 lotus seed bun
4:02 steamed sponge cake
4:10 sesame ball
4:20 egg tart
4:28 coconut milk pudding
4:37 mango pudding
4:45 sweet glutinous balls
4:55 tofu pudding

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