One bowl with two pieces

One bowl with two pieces (Chinese: 一盅兩件; Jyutping: jat1 zung1 loeng2 gin6) is a term that has long been in the vernacular of Hong Kong tea culture, meaning a bowl of tea with two "delicacies to complement the tea", i.e. dim sum.[1][2] In Cantonese restaurants of the past, tea was not offered in a present-day teapot but in a bowl. Dim sum was not bite-sized. Instead, quite a number of them were simply big buns, such that two of them easily filled up one's stomach. The legendary Chicken Ball Dai Bao (雞球大包. lit. Chicken Ball Big Bun, meaning a bun with chicken filling) serves as an excellent example. This saying, however, is now rendered anachronistic under the heavy influence of the "bite-sized trend". The "two pieces" now is normally referring to Har gow (蝦餃) and Shumai (燒賣)[3].

References

1. Guo, Kaiwei; Zhang, Na; Zhang, Jianfen; Zhang, Man; Zhou, Mingzhu; Zhang, Yue; Ma, Guansheng (2023-05-08). "Cantonese morning tea (Yum Cha): a bite of Cantonese culture". Journal of Ethnic Foods. 10 (1): 12. doi:10.1186/s42779-023-00180-9. ISSN 2352-6181.
2. "細說一盅兩件 從傳統到新派 多元化滋味點心推介". Harbour City (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2025-01-12.
3. "點心中的四大天王 | 香港旅遊發展局". Discover Hong Kong (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2025-01-12.