Then they’re all put in a wooden rice cake mold to form a shape and baked. After which ingredients such as sesame, peanuts, eggs, coconut, etc. Rice is fried until it turns golden, then ground into rice flour. In Guangzhou, it is a tradition to make fried rice cakes during the Spring Festival ( the Chinese New Year Period). Recommended eateries: Yongchang Cake Shop (永昌饼家), Minghua Cake Shop (明华饼店).They consist of baked flaky pastry with a barbecued pork filling and are best fresh out of the oven, when the hot crispy crust blends appetizingly in the mouth with the savory meat. Recommended eatery: Guangzhou Restaurant (广州酒家)īBQ pork pastries are one of the most representative Cantonese dim sums.Chinese name: 马拉糕 mǎ lā gāo ‘horse pull cake’ (presumably once sold from a trailer pulled by a horse).It is golden brown, fluffy, and soft with a slight aroma. Authentic Cantonese sponge cake is made of flour, egg, lard, and butter, mixed and fermented for three days, and then steamed.Ĭantonese sponge cake in teahouses usually comes in a large round shape and is cut into small pieces for sale. Recommended eateries: Zanji Longfeng Cake Shop (赞记龙凤礼饼), Jiale Egg Tart King (嘉乐蛋挞王)Ĭantonese sponge cake is one of the most common dim sums in Guangzhou teahouses.Chinese name: 香蕉糕 xiāngjiāo gāo /sshyang-jyao gao/.Sometimes sweetened bean paste or jujube paste will be added to increase the taste. It is made of glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour mixed with sugar, banana oil, and water. Recommended eateries: Chengzhu Food Store (成珠食品), Minghua Cake Shop (明华饼店), Lianxiang Lou (莲香楼)īanana cake is a kind of sweet and soft dim sum.Chinese name: 鸡仔饼 jī zǎi bǐng ‘chicken young biscuit(s)’. They are shaped like chicks (with imagination) and yellowish, hence the name "ji zai biscuits". Legend has it that ji zai biscuits’ origin stemmed from the sluggish sales of mooncakes at one time, when biscuit makers at Guangzhou's Chengzhu Teahouse used a mixture of mashed mooncakes, pork, cabbage hearts, mashed garlic, ground pepper powder, and five-spice powder to create the crispy sweet and salty biscuits. They are also one of the most popular souvenirs among visitors. Ji zai biscuits are Guangzhou's leading kind of biscuits (U.S. Recommended eatery: 39 Qianjin Road, Haizhu District (a small nameless shop in an alley).Chinese name: 萝卜糕 luóbogāo /lwor-bor-gao/.Pickled turnip shreds and sausages are added to rice milk with peppers and salt to be steamed or fried. Turnip cakes are a traditional dim sum in Guangzhou, representing the authentic taste of dim sum in local people’s hearts. Recommended eateries: Lucky Tea House (幸运楼), Guangzhou Restaurant (广州酒家).Chinese name: 烧麦 shāomài ‘cooked wheat’.Different from those in other places, the outside skins of Cantonese shaomai are made of egg instead of dough and are filled with pork, shrimp, and crab legs. Shaomai are one of the must-order dim sums for Cantonese morning tea. Recommended eateries: Panxi Restaurant (泮溪酒家), Rongxin Cake Shop (荣馨饼屋). Chinese name: 炸咸水饺 zháxiánshuǐjiǎo /jaa-sshyen-shway-jyao/.The crispy outside and tender inside combo tastes great. Fried minced pork and mushrooms are mixed and wrapped in skins made of glutinous rice flour, then fried until they turn golden. Recommended eateries: Xiajiao Sister (虾饺妹), Taotao Ju (陶陶居), Dian Du De (点都德)įried salty dumplings are a traditional dim sum in Guangzhou. You can see the tender shrimp through the crystal-clear skin after steaming, which is appetizing. Unlike ordinary dumplings, the skin of shrimp dumplings is made of sticky rice flour. The traditional stuffing consists of shrimp meat and bamboo shoots, but there are many variations on bamboo shoots now. Traditional shrimp dumplings are half-moon shaped and have 12 folds. Shrimp dumplings were created in a small teahouse in a village on the outskirts of Guangzhou.
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