But centuries later, Dim Sum has evolved into a prominent brunch option all around the globe, often bringing friends and family together over a pot of hot tea, and a great variety of small delectable dishes of buns, dumplings and rolls. Cantonese people call going to Dim Sum ‘yum cha’, which literally means ‘drinking tea’, as their most favourite form of luncheon originated in tea houses a millennium ago, prepared as snacks to complement their beloved tea.
