[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

ravs /ravz/, also `chinese ravs' n. primarily mit/boston usage
   jiao-zi steamed or boiled or guo-tie pan-fried. a chinese appetizer,
   known variously in the plural as dumplings, pot stickers the literal
   translation of guo-tie, and around boston `peking ravioli'. the term
   `rav' is short for `ravioli', and among hackers always means the chinese
   kind rather than the italian kind. both consist of a filling in a pasta
   shell, but the chinese kind includes no cheese, uses a thinner pasta,
   has a pork-vegetable filling good ones include chinese chives, and is
   cooked differently, either by steaming or frying. a rav or dumpling can
   be cooked any way, but a potsticker is always the pan-fried kind so
   called because it sticks to the frying pot and has to be scraped off.
   "let's get hot-and-sour soup and three orders of ravs." see also
   oriental food.


see also:
oriental food 

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