Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Dumplings

Lulu and HG went to Jade pot Tea House last weekend for one and only purpose: the Jiao zi. Yep! Chinese dumplings!

They had these:

The one on top is Jiao zi or boiled chinese dumplings cooked in chicken soup. Sold at RM 5. Where as the bottom one is Guo tie or potstickers. Sold at RM 6.

The potstickers differ from the Jiao zi in such that potstickers are pan-fried on the bottom and then steamed whereas Jiao zi are steamed.


There are 2 types of Jiao zi and Guo tie filling ingredients that can be chosen from:

chinese chives or 'jiu cai' and pork -this has a strong smell

cabbage, carrot, mushroom and pork-this tastes sweet

the best part is that the tea house actually allows customers to have 2 different types of filling in single order, meaning you can taste both in a plate of potstickers or soup dumplings.

Of course, potstickers must go with --->

Yep, the soy sauce dipping with vinegar and garlic slices!

p/s: For your info, depending on the fillings and the way of cooking, chinese dumplings can be classifed as jiao zi, potstickers, siu mai, har kao, and etc. The common fillings used are pork, beef, chicken, fish, mutton, shrimps, cabbage, spring onions, chives.

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