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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<3 dim sum!

[pixelation.livejournal.com]

I'm a cantonese speaker, so I don't know if the names I supply will help much, since Cantonese can be romanized a billion different ways.

1. [insert meat type] Cherng Fun. Rice noodle type dough wrapped around shrimp/beef/pork.
2. I think they're deep fried shrimp puffs? They look... weird.
3. Yerng Ai Gwa. Eggplants stuffed with fish cake/paste.
4. Never seen those before.
5. Deep fried taro balls. Forgot the chinese name.
6. Oh... THESE are the deep fried shrimp puffs!
7. Law bat goh. Radish cakes. My mom makes these too! I can probably bug her for a recipe later. Mmmm.
8. These are either Ha Gao (shrimp dumplings) or more likely Gow Choy Gao (leek dumplings... usually with shrimp) because Ha Gao usually doesn't have green stuff in it.
9. Feng Jiao. "Phoenix Claws" aka chicken feet in some yummy sauce. I love these but my more western friends are always grossed out by them.
10. Dow Fa. Warm tofu in syrup.

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[pixelation.livejournal.com]

10. Dow FU fa. :P

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[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Ah but your Cantonese will let me order at the restaurant instead of just pointing at everything.

1. So shrimp ones would be Ha Cherng Fun?
2. Yes...shrimp. The outside seems to be shredded taro and then deep fried.
4. Seemed to be more of the fish/shrimp cake/paste but this time wrapped in some kind of bean curd wrapper. I think it was steamed but I'm not sure.
5. Do you know what the outside stuff is that makes it crispy is?
6. yep :)
7. are radishes the same thing as turnips? Someone else above ID'd these as turnip cakes.
9. They're really tasty but require more work to nibble away the edible parts so I'm not a big fan of them
10. It's tofu! I've been thinking I only like extra firm tofu. So which consistency would I buy to make these? The silken tofu? How do you make the syrup?

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[spamfriedrice.livejournal.com]

1. usually when you order at the restaurants, you just say Ha Cherng/Cheung... and leave off the "fun"
2. this looks like deep fried soft shell crabs, but if it's not then it's not :-)
3. looks like eggplant stuffed w/shrimp
6. i think this is crab and shrimp puffs.
7. Law Bok Goh - law bok is radish, i think?

yummmy! now i can't wait to go home for the holidays.

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[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Ah ok...thanks! #2 is the only one I can definitely say was something different. It had some shrimp filling with shredded taro on the outside to make it look spiky and then it was deep fried so it was crispy on the outside. Really tasty.

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[pixelation.livejournal.com]

1. Yes, exactly! Beef would be Ow Cherng Fun.
5. Hmm, no idea. It is a pretty strange (but cool) consistency, isn't it?
7. Doh! Sorry, mistranslation. Those are turnips and not radishes. I always mix those two up in English.
10. From memory, the syrup tastes like it's mostly sugar, water, and ginger. Did a bit of googling, and it looks like you don't buy packaged tofu to make these, but use soy bean or soy milk instead. Here's one of the few recipes that popped up. http://www.soymilkquick.com/tofudessert.html

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[summercomfort]

萝卜 I think can refer to any of the family, but I think daikon is typically used?

Dunno how helpful a Chinese search for these would be, but here's some of the characters in simplified:

1)虾肠粉
7）萝卜糕
8）韭菜饺
9）凤爪

I'm of the opinion that if you can get your hands on the clear rice-flour-based wraps used for the various Jiao (shrimp, leek, etc), and the 河粉 (Ho fen the white strips) for the various Changfen, then you're half done.

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[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. I think I must be missing a plug-in to show the Chinese but maybe it'll help someone else who reads this thread.