"I was filming in a Chinese home and saw all the shoes on the floor by the door. This image gave me the idea of making a movie about the people who belonged to those shoes...how their family lives and outside lives fit together" (Wayne Wang). Dim Sum is Wayne Wang's one from the heart, part homage to Ozu, part idiosyncratic ideogram about the ways that Chinese Americans are Chinese and American. Wang elicits a marvelously nuanced performance from non-professional actress Kim Chew as Mrs. Tam, whose daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew, Kim Chew's daughter) is caught when her mother paradoxically pushes her both to marry and to stay home with her. On his fifty-ninth birthday, Uncle Tam (another delightful performance, by Victor Wong) attempts to solve the family's dilemma by proposing marriage to his sister-in-law Mrs. Tam.