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  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [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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