Title: Dim Sum for Everyone
Author/ Illustrator: Lin, Grace
Publisher and Date:Alfred A. Knopf, 2001
Author/ Illustrator: Lin, Grace
Publisher and Date:Alfred A. Knopf, 2001
Genre:Multicultural, Picture Book
Age Range:k-2nd
Summary:
This story is narrated by a young girl. She and her family are visiting a dim sum restaurant in Chinatown. She takes you on a tour of the restaurant and shares with you what her family had to eat. She explains that dim sum is served on carts and can be found on tables as well. He mother(Ma-Ma) chooses sweet pork buns, her father (Ba-Ba) chooses fried shrimp, her siblings Jei-Jei and Mei-Mei choose turnip cakes and sweet tofu, and she chooses little egg tarts. Dim Sum is traditionally served in little dishes, and everyone tries a little bit of everything. Dim Sum can be translated to mean “touches the heart or little heart.” It originally began as an appetizer or snack served in teahouses. It soon became so popular that restaurants opened to exclusively serve Dim Sum. Dim Sum wasn’t brought over to the Western world until the 19th century. There are several cool customs that go along with Dim Sum. To thank your waiter you tap three fingers on the table, and the waiters don’t clear away dirty dishes from the table, they count them to calculate the bill.
Response and Teaching Ideas:
This was such a unique book! I would have never imagined I could learn so much about another culture in just a few short pages. It would be a great book to reader with younger children. The words are simple enough that they can practice repeating them after you, and predicting what the text will say next. The brightly colored, double page spread illustrations are also sure to draw students in. I particularity loved the picture showing the whole room filled with families all eating Dim Sum. I loved seeing that there was such a diverse crowd of people represented in her illustrations. I think it would be so neat to focus on the Chinese tradition of Tea houses and Dim Sum. You could cover the history and serve traditional food. Students could also plan their own imaginary trip to Chinatown and write about what they would see and eat.
This story is narrated by a young girl. She and her family are visiting a dim sum restaurant in Chinatown. She takes you on a tour of the restaurant and shares with you what her family had to eat. She explains that dim sum is served on carts and can be found on tables as well. He mother(Ma-Ma) chooses sweet pork buns, her father (Ba-Ba) chooses fried shrimp, her siblings Jei-Jei and Mei-Mei choose turnip cakes and sweet tofu, and she chooses little egg tarts. Dim Sum is traditionally served in little dishes, and everyone tries a little bit of everything. Dim Sum can be translated to mean “touches the heart or little heart.” It originally began as an appetizer or snack served in teahouses. It soon became so popular that restaurants opened to exclusively serve Dim Sum. Dim Sum wasn’t brought over to the Western world until the 19th century. There are several cool customs that go along with Dim Sum. To thank your waiter you tap three fingers on the table, and the waiters don’t clear away dirty dishes from the table, they count them to calculate the bill.
Response and Teaching Ideas:
This was such a unique book! I would have never imagined I could learn so much about another culture in just a few short pages. It would be a great book to reader with younger children. The words are simple enough that they can practice repeating them after you, and predicting what the text will say next. The brightly colored, double page spread illustrations are also sure to draw students in. I particularity loved the picture showing the whole room filled with families all eating Dim Sum. I loved seeing that there was such a diverse crowd of people represented in her illustrations. I think it would be so neat to focus on the Chinese tradition of Tea houses and Dim Sum. You could cover the history and serve traditional food. Students could also plan their own imaginary trip to Chinatown and write about what they would see and eat.
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