Har Gow/虾饺

Ahoy Hoy beautiful people, Breeann is in the Big Love house today (no, not "big love" in that way, you sick people), and she has brought some Chinese food with her. I'm kidding, I haven't really brought anything. Aside from this post.

As the Cantonese are the predominant cultural group in Hong Kong, a great number of dishes were introduced into the territory by Guangzhou, Mainland China. Out of many of the things introduced, Dim Sum or Dim Sim (as it's generally called in English-speaking countries) appears to be the most well-developed, with a popular following even overseas. Dim Sum is, simply put, the Chinese version of Tapas ie. small dishes/small pieces of food.

A very popular and typical Dim Sum is the "Har Gow"/Prawn Dumpling- pastry made from wheat starch and tapioca starch is filled with a mixture of prawn, pork and bamboo shoots. The pastry is then shaped into a pouch in a way which imprints a number of pleats/folds along the sides. These dumplings are then steamed until the pastry has become translucent and the texture is chewy.

Signing off until the next time I bother to post,

Breeann