Yum cha

Yum cha in Cantonese Chinese literally means "drink tea". The phrase dim sum is sometimes used in place of yum cha; in Cantonese, dim sum refers to the range of small dishes, whereas yum cha refers to the entire meal.Traditionally, yum cha is practiced in the morning or early afternoon. There has been a recent trend for restaurants to offer dim sum during dinner hours and even late at night, though most venues still generally reserve the serving of dim sum for breakfast and lunch periods.Dim sum can be cooked by steaming and frying, among other methods. The dim sum are usually served as three or four pieces in one dish. It is customary to order family style, sharing dishes among all members of the dining party. Because of the small portions you can try a wide variety of food. Traditionally, the cost of the meal was calculated based on the number and size of dishes left on the patron’s table at the end. In modern dim sum restaurants, dim sum servers mark orders by stamping a card on the table. Servers in some restaurants even use different stamps so that sales statistics for each server can be recorded. Nowadays, yum cha is not only served from morning to afternoon tea, but also for dinner. Yum cha restaurant offers a choice of Chinese teas to compliment the food, to aid digestion. When you go to yum cha restaurant, waiter and waitress will have a pushable trolleys with a heating function (often using gas) were used, allowing more items to be brought out at once. They will put many different dishes on the trolley, so you can always find what you like. different trolley with different dishes, they will have dessert trolley which is my favourite, mango pudding, egg tart and durian tart. ⇩⇩

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum