Sweet Potato Pastry

Chinese pastries are celebrated with the daily consumption of yum cha – a ritual of eating small amounts of many things, many encased in pastry. Chinese pastry differs from French pastry in its ingredients, construction and cooking. Dim-sum pastries are many and varied. There are pastry wrappers that are paper-thin and made from rice flour and water or with egg; spring-roll wrappers made with wheat flour; and dumpling pastries that use some form of vegetable starch as a base and are bound w