Delicacies of Tempting Dim Sum

Dim Sum is a small food and cooked with fried or boiled. Usually the menus were presented in a round container made from bamboo. There is a wide selection of Dim Sum menu provided in the restaurant Ping, one of which is egado, Dim Sum contains chicken and quail eggs wrapped in leather knows.
Its texture is soft and tender when eaten. Egado will be more delicious if eaten with chilli sauce. In addition there are also hakao egado containing shrimp. Peeled shrimp mixed with corn starch, sesame oil, a little MSG, chicken flour, plus salt, pepper, and sugar.

The mixture was then wrapped in leather made from sago flour dough, tang mien flour, vegetable oil and then steamed. Leather wear sago hakao Hong Kong which is more finely textured than local sago.

"If local sago making Dim Sum dry and harden quickly," said Kardiman, Ping restaurant's head chef. There is also deep-fried dumplings, shrimp dim sum are rambutan. Finely chopped shrimp and then inserted into the skin and fried dumpling until bloom.

If consumers are still curious about the menu-style restaurants Dim Sum Ping, can select the form Dim Sum bapau, namely bapau Tausa content. Bapau small size it contains a red bean-paste and given sugar. Dim Sum is usually associated with the older tradition of yum cha (tea ceremony).

The tradition was originally done by the traders who traveled along the Silk Road. They need a place to rest along the route. Teahouses were established along the roadside.

Not only traders, farmers, exhausted after working hard in the fields also will go to the tea shop to relax in the afternoon. At first, drinking tea should be separate and there should be no other food.
It relates to the Chinese people's confidence, their weight will increase if there is another menu that is consumed in addition to tea. However, upon discovery of tea to help digestion, the teahouse owners began to serve a variety of snacks as dishes that accompany the tea.

Dim Sum which means touching it came from the Canton region, southern China. Dim Sum all that has changed the tradition of yum cha, from activities that are rigid to be relaxed to share stories and experiences. In Hong Kong and most cities in Guangdong Province, China, many restaurants that serve Dim Sum visitors since 05.00.

Not surprisingly, Dim Sum, a tradition for parents on the morning after their exercise. Not infrequently they also enjoy a Dim Sum while reading the morning paper. Most restaurants only serve Dim Sum Dim Sum menus until mid-afternoon.

At night the menu was changed to Cantonese cuisine. In Hong Kong and China, Dim Sum, which was initially only a light meal or snack is now a staple food that is present in the culture of eating. In the Bamboo Curtain country health officials criticized the high amount of saturated fat and sodium that is contained in some Dim Sum dishes.

According to them, with steamed Dim Sum does not mean automatically considered a healthy food. Therefore, China's health officials recommend people to balance the fatty foods with vegetables boiled, without including the sauce.
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Source: newspaper-jakarta.com

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