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Every Sunday

Sunday yum cha

Cantonese families meet on Sunday morning to drink tea and share small steamed dishes.

Cantonese dim sum yumcha yum cha City Hall Maxim's Palace Restaurant Cantonese dim sum yumcha yum cha
Photo: Infomofo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Sunday yum cha

Yum cha means to drink tea, and for Cantonese families it is the Sunday morning gathering of several generations. A large round table fills with small baskets and plates of dim sum, ordered a few at a time and shared: prawn dumplings, pork dumplings, barbecued pork buns, rice noodle rolls, egg tarts. The teapot is refilled again and again. Restaurants are at their busiest and loudest late on Sunday morning.

The dishes

Dim sumThe small dishes shared at the table.Har gowTranslucent prawn dumplings.ShumaiOpen pork and prawn dumplings.Cha siu baoSteamed buns of barbecued pork.Egg tartTo finish.
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Yum cha" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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