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

[vandegraaff.livejournal.com]

Wow, the only dim sum I've ever seen around here was a really thick dumpling usually with pork inside (and I basically hate pork, especially in asian foods).

I'll have to check around and see. Some of the more friendly places might be willing to sell me things they don't generally have on the menu. There was a place next door to one of the last places that I worked at that was run by a very nice Chinese family and I would always see them eating things I knew were not on the menu. I never asked them about their meals tho, didn't want to bother them while they were eating. ;]

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Oh but sometimes, the pork comes out amazing. There's char siu bao which is BBQ pork in a baked bun. I'll admit that you'll often get leftover boneless spareribs pork in Chinese restaurants that have been recooked one too many times...but when made fresh, it's one of my favorite foods. Quite possible they'd be willing to cook up some off-the-menu dishes. The Chinese restaurant in my hometown didn't bother letting my parents order off the menu. They'd just start talking in rapid Chinese and then head back into the kitchen and bring stuff out that hadn't been on the menu. (or they'd be menu items with the seasonings readjusted for non-Americanized tastebuds)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have seen them baked. Usually the ones we get are steamed.
:-)