Just help yourself to the tea and grab what you want from the dim sum carts.

It was our great luck to share a table with people who really knew their way around a dim sum cart.

At the dim sum cart.

From the dim sum cart ($1.30 a portion), dumplings are brightly seasoned and light, particularly the firm, sweet shrimp and the delicious pork.

The odds favor your chances of choosing something appealing from the dim sum cart as long as you stay away from anything that looks greasy.

On Sunday, the selection on the dim sum cart is fresh and varied.

On weekends, the place teems with people speaking Cantonese to waiters pushing dim sum carts.

But the six waiters charge that Jing Fong has been using money from the tip pool to pay the women who push the dim sum carts, without paying them an hourly wage.

She told me of her engagement as we waited for the first dim sum carts to stop by our table, and I congratulated her.

THE day my friend ate a chicken foot from a dim sum cart, she swore never to order anything unless she had seen it on a menu first.