Our fellow-passengers, well-scrubbed young aides and one or two dim-looking senators, chuckled nervously or simply looked baffled.
And to the average consumer who has never been to a factory, the thought of one may imply dim lighting, dirt, grease and the smell of metal and plastic.
It would also be extremely dim if one were to stand on its surface.
"It is easy, " chef Lau says, passing through, as I prepare to embark on my one-on-one lesson with his dim sum chef.
Many see dim sum bonds as one of a number of developments that will ultimately lead to the internationalization of the yuan as a global reserve currency.
Surfers brave walls of water on blustery Ocean Beach, runners try to keep pace with the stampeding bison in Golden Gate Park and dim sum gluttons attempt just one more round of dumplings in the Richmond or Sunset.
The clinic's solar-powered batteries are able to run only one at a time, along with some dim fluorescent bulbs.
If there is one small gripe, it is that the dim lighting in the second half of the exhibition often makes it hard to read the captions on some of the display objects.
In the U.S. and Germany, one-third of wealthy consumers share the same dim view of discounting, as do 40 percent of wealthy shoppers in the U.K, Italy and France.
Europeans bought about 9% of a China Development Bank dim-sum bond and 8% of one sold by Beijing Enterprises Group, Dealogic said.
One only has to look at a Hogarth print or read Alan Clark's diaries for a dim view of politics in Britain.
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