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However, Ni Zhe Ho Tway (the honey ham, eaten with lotus seed inside a baked, fold of dough) would be a sandwich. Btw, while that thing is insanely sweet, it is quite tasty.

Basically, in English, I believe the word “sandwich” can refer to the specific object: two slices of bread with fillings; and can also speak to a broader category of things that are served in a portable, handheld style in contrast to a platter with utensils. I am willing to admit that a burrito is always referred to as a burrito, and not as a sandwich.

But to get a little too deep in my own minutiae, a sandwich can be a utilitarian word, a broad based category of things that have more common with each other than another group of things, platters.

Sandwiches served on any bread share certain characteristics and personality traits: mobility, a certain hold-and-eat style and a focus on the bread as much as the fillings.

For argument’s sake, suppose I wanted a Mediterranean sandwich. It is traditionally served on a lavash or pita. Would I have to put the same fillings on a Kaiser roll for it to be considered a sandwich? No. The bread must be judged as symbiotic with the fillings. The sandwich only works if the bread and the filling are truly meant to be together.

So I say a burrito, which no doubt was first invented when some guy wanted to take his beans and rice platter to go, is a sandwich, in that it was designed to be held together in a package and eaten.

I would never ever ever order a burrito and expect to get a sandwich. That’s ridiculous. But if you ask the question, is a burrito a type of sandwich? Is an elephant a type of mammal? Is a geranium a plant? The answer is yes.

what about the dim sum char siew buns?