Har Gau

Name: Har Gau
Yield: 70 dumplings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 2½ tablespoons fresh pork fat, either bought packaged or trimmed from a fresh ham or from pork chops; 1½ teaspoons sugar; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; ¾ pound shrimp, shelled, deveined, washed, dried, and diced; ½ egg white, beaten; 2 teaspoons oyster sauce; ¼ cup bamboo shoots, diced; Pinch of white pepper; ⅓ cup water chestnuts, diced; ⅓ cup white portion of scallions, finely chopped; 1 Wheat Starch—Tapioca Flour Dough recipe,; 1½ tablespoons tapioca flour

Shrimp Dumplings

Preparation info

70
dumplings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Dim Sum Book

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1982

About

Har gau is the most famous dim sum in Canton. It is light and delicate and favored by young and old. Chinese children regard har gau with the same reverence that American children give to hamburgers, and in the teahouse it is always the dim sum that is first to sell out.

Ingredients

2½ tablespoons fresh pork fat, either bought packaged or trimmed from a fresh ham or from pork chops
¾ pound shrimp

Asia
China
Starter

Method

Drop pork fat into 1½ cups boiling water and allow to boil until it cooks fully and becomes translucent. Remove from water, place in bowl, run cold water over it, let stand for several minutes, remove from water, dry with paper towel, and dice.
Place shrimp in bowl of electric mixer. Start mixer and add, mixing thoroughly between each addition, the sa