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 SuitabilityContains Meat or Poultry 1 Origin Region Connections
Expresses Tradition
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In Cuisine
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Uses Ingredient
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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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