Chinese Soup Dumplings, or xiaolongbao (小笼包), are perhaps the most perfect single bite of food ever conceived by man. This tantalizing, dreamy snack is probably the most famous dish to come out of the Jiangnan region of China. It is often associated with the city of Shanghai (the largest city in the region by population, and
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Category Archive: ‘Dim Sum’
Everyone has staples in their freezer––a pint of ice cream, a box of waffles, or a bag of frozen peas. The freezer staples I can’t do without are frozen rice, frozen man-tou, frozen dumplings and finally, some sort of savory bun, like these steamed pork buns (baozi, 包子 in Chinese). They’re my emergency meal source!
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BREAKING NEWS!!! You can make delicious congee with slow-cooked flavor––from scratch––in 20 minutes. I’m not talking about using an Instant Pot or pressure cooker either. The extremely exciting technique I’m revealing in this post will cut the usual congee cooking time by at least two thirds, if not more. Anyone who has made congee before
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Use this homemade spring roll recipe to make the Cantonese version of spring rolls that you know and love from dim sum restaurants! Note: This recipe was originally published in September 2015, updated as of June 2019! 2 Chinese Spring Roll Recipes? When I was growing up, Chinatown was the only place you went for
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Zhaliang is everyone’s favorite dim sum item, especially kids. When Sarah, Kaitlin, and their cousins were little, zhaliang was the most requested and coveted plate on the table! What is Zhaliang? Zhaliang is a Cantonese dim sum dish consisting of crispy Chinese fried dough (youtiao) wrapped inside silky rice noodles. It is then garnished
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No exaggeration, having finished this Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll recipe or xiā cháng fěn in Mandarin (虾肠粉), I feel like I just finished a triathlon lasting many years, except all the pedaling (with whisks), running (around the stove) and swimming (in endless bowls of liquid rice mixtures) took place right here in our kitchen.
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Ma Lai Go Chinese Steamed Cake is a fluffy brown sugar sponge cake typically found on dim sum carts in Southern China and Hong Kong—the few places where you’ll find it done right, and where it’s quite popular. What is Ma Lai Go? But whether you call it ma lai go (Cantonese) or ma la
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Cantonese Cha Guo (茶粿), or “tea cakes” are a delicious savory treat made with glutinous rice flour and stuffed with a savory pork filling of dried shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp and daikon radish. A New Year’s Tradition Like our traditional Lo Bak Go recipe, these Cha Guo Glutinous Rice Cakes have a delicate flavor from daikon
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