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

  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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