Possible Clues:

• Dish — one daughter brought to West with mum's cooking?
• Stupid amount for Chinese dish
• Almost ten cents added to whole dumplings
• Obscure problem that whets Chinese appetites
• Vague amount paid for Chinese course
• Chinese food, barely visible amount
• Selection of Chinese appetizers
• Stupid amount of money for fare from China
• Some Chinese subtract three from five to leave six, perhaps?
• Foreign food, far from light quantity