province alone, a total that no other area in China comes even close to matching. In fact, the cookbooks of most Chinese food cultures tend to lump their own variations on the dim sum theme with other local snacks. But that is not the case with Cantonese dim sum, which has developed in...
. The Manchu name ''daicing'', which sounds like a phonetic rendering of ''Dà Qīng'' or ''Dai Ching'', may in fact have been derived from a Mongolian word ", дайчин" that means "warrior". ''Daicing gurun'' may therefore have meant "warrior state", a pun that was ...