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Celebrating Chinese New Year this week has left us with dim sum on the brain. Anyone who's ever had the dim sum experience knows the drill: bustling servers, rolling carts piled high with fragrant dishes, seemingly endless choices. But while you might know where to find the best soup dumplings or pork buns in your 'hood, you might be surprised by how much you still have to learn about this culinary tradition. Yum Sugar has a quiz designed to separate dim sum dunces from the experts.

Take the dim sum quiz over at Yum Sugar.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week.

Highlights from the San Francisco chocolate salon: bacon chocolate, a drink called "choffy," apple pie truffles.

Fashionable tips for the perfect party (think lots of glitter) from MTV's House of Style.

Celebu-chef Jean-George Vongerichten has plans for a worldwide empire of restaurants, with plans to open 50 in the next five years. Will they be the "Applebee's of haute cuisine"?

Are we in the middle of a food revolution? Examining the claims for the recent New York Times story.

What spring vegetable are you looking forward to most -- a quiz. Choices are artichokes, asparagus, carrots, peas and fennel.

How do you feel about mandatory coat checks? Apparently, Yumsugar readers do not like them so much.

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