Name: Flaky Haw Pastries (San Zha Soh Paeng )
Yield: Makes 30–35
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: pine nuts; sugar; wai shan fun; water; white sesame seeds; san zha; haw flakes; eggs; wife cakes; chinese yam powder

Preparation info

Makes
30–35

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Dim Sum

By Chan Chen Hei

Published 2005

About

This dim sum has a rich, flaky crust and a thin layer of sweet-sour haw filling. Chinese yam makes this tasty treat good for digestion too.

Ingredients

Filling

Haw flakes (san zha)

680 g, crushed

Method

Prepare filling. Combine haw flakes, Chinese yam powder and ground pine nuts. Add just enough water to cover ingredients then mix well to form a paste. Add sugar to taste.
Prepare first and second dough then combine as instructed.
Roll dough out on a floured surface into a long cylinder. Divide it into 30–35 equal pieces. Roll each dough piece out into