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Stormmmee Stormmmee is offline
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lol, Lee

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"Nunya Bidnits" > wrote in message
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> Wilson said:
>> sometime in the recent past Stormmmee posted this:
>>> at the same noodle bar with the congee was a dim sum platter, very
>>> nice with several offerings, one of which was a rice item that was
>>> about the size of a standard pear. it was wrapped in a paper that
>>> resembled corn husks and looked like a blooming flower. it was for
>>> lack of any other desrition a rice tamale. meat/vegetables inside
>>> and rice where the corn mush would be on the tamale, very nice but i
>>> never could understand what the server called it, i did get the rice
>>> part was soft sticky rice.
>>>
>>> and while we are on that platter there was a pork bun that was
>>> excellent, does anyone have the recipe for these, i think the bread
>>> part is very nice and could hold a variety of fillings but i want an
>>> authentic one, it was browned on top but soft like it had been also
>>> steamed, no bread recipe i have ever read both steams and oven cooks
>>> the bread.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>

>> Although I can google 'desrition' and come up with many instances of
>> it's use, none of my online dictionaries nor my collegiate hardcopy
>> know what it is. I'd like to know it's roots, and if it's not too
>> much, maybe a link to it's definition. Thanks.

>
> Get out your 1939 Collegiate and look up "typo.'
>
> Oh, never mind, your Collegiate is too old to have included that word.
>
> ;-)