Talk Dim Sum

Love dim sum, but don't know what or how to order? Bring this app on your iPhone or Android phone, find what you like, and tap the speaker icon to hear the dish pronounced in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) using text-to-speech.

I made this app after visiting Hong Kong and trying to crash course learn Cantonese in the food courts. The app started out primarily with dim sum but has expanded to Hong Kong and other Chinese cuisine and includes both Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciations, plus other (often user-requested features) like search filters and restaurant maps.

Practice

The speech plays at half speed to help you learn. The practice screen (tap the microphone) lets you adjust the playback speed, switch between Cantonese, Mandarin with traditional characters, and Mandarin with simplified characters (Cantonese is the default), and practice saying the words.

Filter and Search

Over two hundred dishes are listed (dim sum and related food, such as can be found in Cantonese restaurants and Hong Kong bakeries), and you can filter the listing by selecting from categories (tags) in the top right menu.

You can also search for dishes on the Search screen, and the individual dish pages have a tags menu that directs you to related dishes.

Learn about Dishes

Dish pages also have links to more information and recipes on various web sites, including China Sichuan Food, Dim Sum Central, Dim Sum Guide, Dimsumptuous, Panda Cheffy, Unfamiliar China, Wikipedia, The Woks of Life....

Find Restaurants

A growing list of dim sum restaurants, over three hundred so far (some that I've personally visited and others recommended by users) in the United States and Canada is provided, along with web sites, Yelp links, and regional maps. If you live in an area not covered or know of a restaurant I missed, just let me know and I'll add it!

Related Cantonese vocabulary and links to dim sum and Cantonese resources also listed.

Feedback

Stay tuned for more dishes in updates. Missing your favorite dish or want to recommend a restaurant or have other comments/suggetions/corrections? Please drop a review or send feedback using one of the links in the top left Technicat menu.

Credits

Talk Dim Sum is developed with:

The dim sum icon from Stock Image Folio on Iconfinder.com.

The technicat logo designed by Dakota Snow.

Photos from many dim sum excursions.

The Android version is built with Flutter and the following open source packages: app_settings, flutter_tts, flutter_launch_icons, text_to_speech, bubble, material_search, share, shared_preferences, sqflite.