Chinese Stuffed Peppers are a popular Southern Chinese street food, but most commonly seen stateside on steaming dim sum carts. I remember when I was a kid, my mother would make this dish with green bell peppers from the garden, often alongside her Hakka-style stuffed tofu or perhaps stuffed eggplant, which are other dishes you might see at
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Category Archive: ‘Dim Sum’
Just in case this is the first time you’re reading about zongzi (粽子), or joong in Cantonese, it’s basically a Chinese version of a tamale: rice wrapped inside a leaf, then boiled in water until cooked through. They can be savory or sweet, and everyone has their favorite flavors. Bill pretty much only likes the zongzi recipe
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Our baked cha siu bao is to this day one of the recipes that consistently stays at the top of our “most popular” list––a strong indication of just how much people love these tasty BBQ pork buns but you must try these steamed bbq pork buns. For this reason, steamed BBQ pork buns or Char
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Sticky rice with Chinese sausage is a staple on dim sum carts (you’ll usually see it in overturned glass bowls––as little sticky rice “domes”), and it’s actually very easy to make. This sticky rice recipe is similar to the sticky rice with chicken (lo mai gai) we already have on the blog, but less complex in
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This savory turnip cake (sometimes called radish) lo bak go is a very traditional dish often served at dim sum houses, and when I was a kid, it always showed up on the table on Chinese New Year’s Day. As a result, it’s been etched in my mind as a wonderfully delicious tradition. Having sampled versions
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Vegan char siu bao or cha siu bao (i.e. vegan roast pork buns). Does that even make any sense? Well, yes and no. Obviously, there is NO pork in these buns. But they taste remarkably similar to the traditional pork cha siu bao that many of us know and love. So, if you’re looking for
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Shumai or Siu Mai wasn’t necessarily always our first choice at Sunday dim sum. It was usually dominated by steamed pork ribs, chive dumplings, sticky rice, and congee. But in the end, we always had a little room on the table for some traditional shumai, and it would end up on the table in one way or
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Taro cake! A crispy, golden brown Chinese New Year and Sunday dim sum favorite. If you’ve ever been to a Chinese grocery store, you’ve probably seen big, brown, hairy, vaguely coconut-ish tubers shelved somewhere near the carrots and sweet potatoes. What on earth are these hairy brown fibrous beasts, you might ask? They lack the coconut’s roundness
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