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The Top Dim Sum in Hong Kong, Picked by Star Chefs
From classic roast pork puffs to striking charcoal black custard buns, here are the best bites in the city.
No place in the world takes dim sum more seriously than Hong Kong. The mainstay meal is everything, whether combative weekend sport or exuberant multigenerational family happening. It’s also the chance to celebrate culture for anyone looking beyond the overloaded Lazy Susan. Even just-paroled billionaires can’t resist.
Dim sum’s roots date back more than 2,000 years to the days when China’s Silk Road was a busy trade route, and the tea houses that lined it began adding small, restorative servings of food. (“Yum cha,” the Cantonese term for a meal of dim sum and tea, translates literally as “to drink tea.”)