Category: Cheung Fun

This is the slippery white rice pasta that comes with all sorts of fillings and is covered with a sweetish soy based sauce. Unlike lasagne, instead of being layered, it is rolled with the filling in the middle. The pasta can also come plain or with cut up bits of spring onion and dry shrimps incorporated into the pasta.

At China palace, the prices are as follows:

Prawn Cheung Fun                                                       £4.10

Roast Pork (Char Sui) Cheung Fun                               £4.10

Beef (minced) Cheung Fun                                            £3.00

Deep- fried Dough Cheung Fun                                    £3.00

The deep fried dough is worth a special mention. Its Cheung Fun with what the Chinese call yu tew. The nearest thing to it is churros in Spain. So in this dish, you get both the soft and crisp texture. Cheung Fun is always steamed never boiled – it breaks up.

These dishes are only available during lunch time or for breakfast. I have never come across it in the evening in any Chinese Restaurants in the world even ones that offer dim sum all day.

Category: Others

Name: Baked egg tarts

Chinese name: dan tart

Price: £2.30

Summary:

This is Chinese custard tart. The difference is that the custard is enriched with egg yolk and the pastry is more like flaky (puff) pastry.

Under dim sum, you can also be offered pots of rice, congee (rice porridge) – just boil rice in plenty of water till the rice disintegrates, mixed meat platter (char sui, roast duck and crispy belly of pork) and occasionally suckling pig.

Enjoy.

I have nearly all the recipes. If you want to try making it, do write in and I will let you have it. However, please note that all sorts of dim sums are now available frozen so hardly anyone (except restaurants) make them. In fact I suspect that half of them simply warm up bought in frozen dim sum.

The only one worth making is spring roll and it is very easy. Just buy the pastry skin (frozen) from a supermarket and then put in any sort of filling that you fancy and finish it off by deep frying.

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Please note that the price is for guidance only – it is what China Palace charged in July 2010