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A touchstone for Northeast Philly’s growing Chinese community, China Gourmet is Philadelphia’s preeminent Cantonese dim sum hall — perhaps in part because the cavernous space can seat 400 at its lazy Susan-topped round tables. Seven days a week, morning to afternoon, rolling carts crisscross the dining room to offer more than 50 types of dim sum, all prepared according to strict Cantonese culinary orthodoxy. The cha leung — rice rolls wrapped around crispy fried dough and drizzled with sweet soy sauce — is exemplary, while the peppers stuffed with fish cake is an only-in-Philly dish, incorporating that cherished local staple, the long hot.