Dim Sum Quiz

[fitfool]

I love dim sum but now that Chinatown is no longer a subway ride away, I'd like to make some of these dishes at home. But...I don't know what things are called. So quiz time. Here are 10 dim sum dishes. Give the name of the dish. Bonus points given to offering the recipe too (but with the name I can try googling for recipes). I know what some of them are called but I like having an even 10 questions on the quiz. :)

	1. The white part is slippery and is filled with shrimp. The soy sauce is slightly thicker and sweet. This is my Favorite dish.		2. Crunchy deep-fried something.
	3. I don't see these as often but I liked them.		4. some kind of shrimp filling
	5. a greyish purplish inside with consistency of mashed potatoes. Outside is crispy.		6. Lots of shrimp inside.
	7. My mom made these when we were kids.		8. filled with shrimp
	9. These are more trouble to eat than they're worth though they are tasty.		10. Warm and eaten as dessert. Slippery feeling.

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Comments

[cwhf.livejournal.com]

You are making me miss Ton Kiang in SF desperately!!!!

I don't know real chinese names of any of them but I love them all especially the taro nests as I used to call them.

My stomach is sad now.

Even though people have replied, I'm going to try anyway

[u2believe.livejournal.com]

I'm cantonese speaking so I'll try to phonetically sound it out as I type. My dad used to own a chinese restaurant so I'm around food all the time.
1) Ha Cherng Fun (shrimp rolled in rice noodles) Cherng Fun in general and the type of meat goes before it.
2) I've never had that nor seen it but it looks as though there is shredded taro to give the spikey look. My dad used to use Taro to make the baskets to hold veggies. It looks very similar to that.
3) Yeurng-I-Gwa (eggplant sandwhiched between a fish/shrimp paste filling
4) Never seen that here but it looks like the texture of tofu wrapper and then deep fried. Looks a little too wrinkly for regular egg roll wrappers. I've seen the tofu wrappers around a meat filling but then it is steamed instead of deep fried.
5) Wu-Gwok (taro dumpling)
6) My favourite Hi Keem (so "ha" is shrimp and "hi" is crab)
7) No idea.. picture looks a little blurry and there might be sauce on it. so my take is loh bak go (dicon or white turnip patty)
8) This will depend on what type of veggie is in it. There is "gow choy baow" which is chives and pork dumpling OR "dow miew bow" which is snow pea vine with shrimp dumpling. The vine that the snow pea grows on is edible and quite tasty. It is a lot of work to take off all the chewy bits prior to cooking.
9) Fung Ghow (like chow but with a G) phoenix claws or chickens feet
10) Dow fu fa (tofu dessert with a sugar syrup.. the tofu doesn't have a taste.. it's more the syrup that you load on it)

I hope that helps.. :o) Makes me want to go and have dim sum right now.

[mysticchyna.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure what is what, but i love Dim Sum!

Re: Even though people have replied, I'm going to try anyway

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the reply to a really old comment but I did want to reply since I was happy to get your explanations for the dishes. Thank you!

For #5, the taro dumpling, how do you get the outside crunchy part to look like that? Would your dad know what they use to make it? I love this dish and I think it's one of my dad's favorites. I found a few recipes for this now but the pictures don't look like what I see at the restaurants for the outside.
For #2, you're right...it was spiky taro on the outside. #7 is that loh bak go, yes. #8 I hadn't known the snow pea vine was edible. We used to grow them in our backyard and would just discard the stems.