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Har Gow

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Har gow, also anglicized as ha gow, hau kau, or ha kao, is a traditional Cantonese dumpling served as dim sum, made of shrimp meat steamed inside a flour wrapper. After cooking the wrapper becomes somewhat translucent, which is why har gow is sometimes called crystal shrimp dumplings.

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Classification
Dietary Suitability
Contains Meat or Poultry 1
Origin Region
Guangdong, China 1
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Expresses Tradition

Source Har gow, Wikipedia

In Cuisine

Source Har gow, Wikipedia

Uses Ingredient

Source Har gow, Wikipedia
Scallion, Ingredients
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Soy Sauce, Ingredients
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1. Har gow, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Place of origin
    Place of origin: Guangdong, China
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_gow (dietary-suitability)
    It is made of shrimp meat, and steamed in a flour wrapper.
  • Expresses Tradition: Yum Cha, Wikipedia category: Category:Dim sum
  • Uses Ingredient: Bamboo Shoot, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
  • Uses Ingredient: Scallion, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
  • Uses Ingredient: Sesame Oil, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
  • Uses Ingredient: Soy Sauce, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
  • In Cuisine: Chinese Cuisine, lead paragraph
    Har gow (Chinese: 蝦餃; pinyin: xiājiǎo; Jyutping: haa1 gaau2; lit. 'shrimp jiao'), also anglicized as ha gow, hau kau, or ha kao, is a traditional Cantonese dumpling served as dim sum.
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