Dim-summing with "Jook-sings"

My housemates and I (asian) took a friend (non-asian) to dim sum today. I had no idea it was his first experience but apparently, we weren't enthusiastic enough. Sorry dude! That's what happens when you go dim-summing with a bunch of "jook-sings", a Cantonese term for CBCs (Chinese-born Canadians). Genetically, we're Chinese, but culturally, we're definitely more Canadian. Sure we know the names of some of the dishes, but we aren't experts in the art of Chinese delicacies. And we're dragged by our parents to go dim-sum enough times that we kind of lost some enthusiasm for it. Besides, I personally am not much of a dim-summer, especially not downtown. I find the food far superior uptown, and the hygiene is much better. I'm a bit of a snob, I know.

It was a pretty funny experience though, since a lot of the ladies that were pushing around the carts of dim-sum spoke very broken English (and they assumed we spoke English only since we had the non-asian with us). We heard things like "srump" (shrimp dishes) and "deep-fried jelly" (deep-fried taro). Ah, what a multicultural city we live in.