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.
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