2010年8月19日星期四

Top 10 Guangzhou Breakfasts

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Prawn dumplings
Just as you must have a fragrant coffee with your breakfast,people of Guangzhou must order a portion of delicate prawn dumpling for the morning tea. Prawn dumpling is one kind of Cantonese Dim Sum with a long history, which the wrapper is made of the whole wheat flavor, and the stuffing is made of prawn, port, and tender bamboo shoots. It is wrapped as a dumpling-shape and is steamed to be the final step. Because of its curved shape like a comb, it is also called curved comb dumplings. Excellent prawn dumpling has not only soft and refreshing wrapper, which is crystal and translucent with visible stuffing, but also delicious stfuffing with exquisite shape, which is delicious and tempting because it is so smooth and fresh.


Shaomai/Shiumai

Shaomai is one kind of Dim Sum, which is indispensible while people of Guangzhou is having the morning tea. Shaomai, which is steamed in a special cage with dough as the wrapper, wrapping with stuffing. It has the fluffy top, flowery folding beam waist, petite exquisite shape which makes it beautiful and delicious. And it has diverse styles, such as shrimp Shaomai, beef Shaomai, Offal Shaomai, fish Shaomai, pork Shaomai and quail egg Shaomai, and etc., which is all up to your own choice.



Roasted Pork Bun

roasted pork, which is the stuffing, in a cooking way of steaming. The bun wrapper with a slight fissure is like the smile sign of Roasted Pork Bun, inviting you to savor its exquisite "content.” Take just one bite, jelly inside roasted pork bun will burst out pork gravy, savory with palatable sweet and salty, which will make people a joy for ever.





Egg tart

Egg tarts, Prawn dumpling, Shaomai, Cantonese Roasted Pork Bun are named as “Four emperors” for Cantonese morning tea. Tart is from the English word "tart" according to its pronounciation, which refers to the filling exposed pie. The egg tart is baked after sugar and eggs are mixed into egg pulp, and then are poured into the pie mold. The tart shell is crispy, the filling is the sweet and soft yellow egg pulp. With crispy shell, soft filling, and burst of eggs wafted around, which is the most tantalizing part of the egg tart.



Rice Loaf with Chicken
If we say that Prawn Dumpling and Shaomai have the same delicate weights as their exquisite appearances, then Rice Loaf with Chicken is one kind of delicious Dim Sum, which allows you to feel the faint scent of lotus leaf and to fill your stomach at the same time. Glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf, with putting chicken, pork, salted egg yolk, mushrooms, and etc. in the center, and then put it in for steaming. While it comes out, the rice is soft, glossy, and smooth, the filling is rich and abundant. And that faint scent of the lotus leaf makes it not greasy even with ample materials. Therefore, it is adored by the majority of diners.






Pan Tang Water Chestnut Cake

Willing to eat the most authentic water chestnut cake, Guangzhou Pan Xi Restaurant is where you should go for its Pan Tang water chestnut cake. Chestnut powder, the local specialty has been adopted to be the raw material used with blaze to steam for the Pan Tang water chestnut cake. The Cake has golden color and transparent body, which is smooth and delicious in mouth, and the unique fragrance of water chestnut are left in the mouth after eating. In a sunny afternoon, order a pot of tea, taste of a dish of Pan Tang water chestnut cake, you'll fall in love with such a Cantonese style afternoon tea.



Chicken Feet

Chicken feet is the "chicken claw" is one of the Dim Sum that Cantonese must order for their morning tea. High-quality chicken feet is with crimson color, swollen and wrinkled cortex. Therefore, it is also called wrinkled chicken feet. It is full of euryale ferox juice, which offers a sense of enema. While eating, the skin is easily off the bone and has a taste of soft and smooth, which makes it suitable for both adults and children.




Wedding Rice Noodles with Dried Radish and Roasted Goose

Those, who love to Guangzhou Restaurant for morning tea, know that they must give a try to the Wedding Rice Noodles with dried Radish and Roasted Goose there. The noodles are 100% hand-made, which are soaked into the double stewed soup of pig bones, covered with a layer of translucent roasted goose in bright pink. It allows you not only to feel the exquisite smooth of the noodles, but also the soothing of double stewed soup, moreover, the venison flavor of the goose all at one try. Eat it with chopped green onion and shredded carrots will bring a even more wonderful and delux taste!



Steamed Pork Ribs with Taros

Taro steamed pork ribs is one kind of traditional Cantonese style Dim Sum. Although its appearance is not as exquisite as Prawn dumpling and Shaomai, and the cooking is not as dainty as Roasted Pork Bun and Water Chestnut cake, while looking at the soft taros soaked in gravy, the juicy crystal ribs with a plume of steam, which is expiring bursts of meat. How can you resist such a simple and mass daintiness if you are a food lover?




Sister Er’s Steamed Dumpling
It is said that Sister Er’s Steamed Dumpling is created by a maid named Sister Er from Xi Guan, Guangzhou, who is beautiful with ingenuity. Materials used for Sister Er’s Steamed Dumpling are similar to Prawn Dumpling, but Sister Er’s has a bigger shape and richer fillings. Moreover, it has more ample way to serve than Prawn Dumpling, which means it can be steamed or deep fried. Due to the additional parsley, Crab and other ingredients, its taste is very unique and it is still popular as the exquisite Dim Sum in those major restaurants.



                                                                                                          editor:Nicole
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