Your Ultimate Field Guide to Chinese Dim Sum

These delicate-looking, translucent shrimp dumplings are the hallmark of dim sum, and the single most recognizable menu item. While dim sum offerings vary from one tea house to another, this is one food you can always count on finding. Here, shrimp (and often pork) and bamboo shoots get wrapped in a wheat skin and steamed in a bamboo steamer for the most succulent of results.