Name: Watercress Dumpling: The Unhappy Fish Fold (西洋菜餃)
Yield: Makes 25–30
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 25–30 ready-made round dumpling pastries, or thinly rolled circles of shui gao dough; 100 g (3½ oz/¾ cup) raw, peeled and deveined prawns (shrimp); 1 teaspoon light soy sauce; 1 spring onion (scallion); ½ a thumb-size piece of ginger; 1 clove of garlic; ½ tablespoon pure sesame oil; 1 teaspoon sugar; 5 sprigs of fresh coriander (cilantro); ½ tablespoon oyster sauce; 50 g (1¾ oz) minced pork; ½ teaspoon salt; 200 g (7 oz) watercress

Preparation info

Makes
25–30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hong Kong Diner

By Jeremy Pang

Published 2017

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Ingredients

25–30 ready-made round dumpling pastries, or thinly rolled circles of shui gao dough

Method

Finely chop the watercress, garlic, ginger, spring onion (scallion), coriander (cilantro) and prawns (shrimp) and place in a large mixing bowl. Add the minced pork along with the marinade ingredients, and mix well.

To make the unhappy fish fold, take one pastry and place it flat on your work surface in front of you. Place roughly 1½