Name: Fung Ngan Gau
Yield: 70 dumplings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2½ tablespoons tapioca flour; 2½ teaspoons sugar; 1½ pounds shrimp, shelled, deveined, washed, dried, and quartered 1 to 1½ teaspoons salt, to taste; 1 egg white, beaten; Pinch of white pepper; ¼ cup white portion of scallions, finely chopped; 1 Wheat Starch—Tapioca Flour Dough recipe; 1 tablespoon oyster sauce; 2½ tablespoons boiled pork fat, diced (see Har Gau); 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Fung Ngan Gau

Phoenix Eyes

Preparation info

70
dumplings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Dim Sum Book

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1982

About

The phoenix is the traditional symbol of the bride or the woman of nobility and, quite simply, these dumplings, called “phoenix eyes,” are shaped to look like women’s eyes.

Ingredients

1½ pounds shrimp, shelled, deveined, washed, dried, and quartered 1 to 1½ teaspoons salt, to taste
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China
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Method

Place shrimp in bowl of electric mixer. Add salt and blend for 5 minutes.
Add egg white and blend for 2 minutes.
Add tapioca flour and blend for 1 minute.
Add sugar, pork fat, sesame oil, oyster sauce, white pepper, and scallions and blend thoroughly for 5 to 7 minutes.
Using Wheat Starch—Tapioca Flou

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