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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[collisions.livejournal.com]

Every place I've ever eaten Dim Sum (and I eat it *way* too often), the servers are not very tolerant of my attempts to use the real names of the dishes. I even learned to say "shark fin" in Chinese to ask for my favorite dumplings by name, but I get puzzled stares until I say "Shark fin?" to which they say, "Ah! Sha fi!" and hand me the item.

That said, here's the ones I know:

1. They call this "shrimp roll." I'm pretty sure the wrapper is made of bean or rice flour. Good stuff.
2. No idea. I've never seen this form factor of fried stuff. There are places, though, that serve a ball of minced shrimp in a similar looking wrapper (it seemed to be rolled in strips of won ton wrapper, then deep fried). They call it, not surprisingly, "fry shrimp."
3. Eggplant shrimp. A ball of minced shrimp, a Japanese eggplant, a deep fryer. Good stuff.
4. No idea, but these look good. Is that perhaps some snow crab leg in there too?
5. Deep fried taro. I love this when the fryer temperature is right, and I hate it when it's too low (the taro ball ends up way greasy).
6. Crab ball! Crab claw, minced shrimp with a binder, roll in egg and panko, fry. Nummy!
7. Not sure.
8. Shrimp dumplings in a (pretty sure) rice flour wrapper. The rice flour wrappers tend to become translucent when steamed (the Vietnamese do spring rolls that way). I've had these with various types of herbs, but cilantro is often included.
9. Chicken feet! I like them when they're good, but have had them be fairly icky tasting at a couple different places (I think the feet got old in storage or were just *very* gamey), so I don't often order them.
10. Dunno. Looks pretty custardy. I like the mango puddings and sesame balls as desserts.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Actually, Vietnamese spring rolls aren't steamed, fried or cooked. You get the rice paper thingies (I'll check my cupboard in a sec for the real words) and soak them in water. Hint: Warm water works best. When loose and floppy, you put your ingredients down the middle, usually including a mint leaf or two, and a spring onion or chive if you're feeling fancy, roll it up and serve with your fave dipping sauces. LOOOOOOOVE these too. They satisfy my craving for fresh veg and spicy yumminess all in one. I've made them with chinese style duck in the middle once, I've made them using lettuce instead of noodles in the middle too.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

My packets say "Rice Paper," or "Galettes de riz or "I can't read that and I don't know how to make my keyboard sit up and beg like that" and "Reis Paper" and "RIJSTPAPIER".

I'm not sure if that helped. I could take a picture of the packets if you're interested? I'll need to find the camera. :-) Which I need to do anyway.
:-)

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

4. I'm not sure if there was crab in there too. Definitely shrimp though. And very tasty.