Name: Place on Top of Soup Large Dumpling (Sheung Tong Gao)
Yield: Serves 8 people as a starter
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 8 balls of shui gao dough (roughly 25 g/1 oz each); ½ a recipe’s worth of any of the fillings from the previous 3 dumpling recipes; 100 g (3½ oz) wind-dried Chinese ham; 1 piece of dried mandarin peel; 1 teaspoon salt, to season at the end; 4 spring onions (scallions); 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) chicken wings; 300 g (10½ oz) pork ribs; 1 star anise; 10 black peppercorns; 2 tablespoons light soy sauce; 1 spring onion (scallion), chopped, to garnish; 300 g (10½ oz) minced pork, mixed with 2 egg whites; 1 thumb-size piece of ginger

Preparation info

Serves
8
people as a starter

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Hong Kong Diner

By Jeremy Pang

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

The Classic Chinese Broth

500 g (1 lb 2 oz) chicken wings
300<

Method

To make the broth, first place the chicken wings and pork ribs in a large stockpot or saucepan and pour boiling water over them to cover. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Take off the heat and pour away the water and any scum that has come to the surface. Under the tap, rinse the meat with cold water to get rid of any residual scum or impurities.

Now add