December 17, 2008

Translucence

I once posted a photo of a dim sum cart found in many Chinese restaurants in Metro Manila. Here is one item that you won't find in that cart because they're steamed only as they're ordered: har gau, steamed shrimp dumplings. It's spelled in many different ways, actually—the problem of translating Chinese characters into Roman letters. We have further 'Filipinized' it into hakaw and that's the word you'll see in menus here.

hakaw or har gau: steamed shrimp dumplings

15 comments:

  1. des raviolis à la vapeur, c'est délicieux...Hummmn, tient cela me donne envie d'aller dans un restaurant chinois ce soir...
    raviolis in the steam, it is delightful... Hummmn.... holds it gives me desire to go to a Chinese restaurant this evening...

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  2. Oh yes, Hilda, I've had these a few times when enjoying dim sum with Asian friends. Scrumptious!

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  3. I'm not fond of dim Sum but these look juicy and delicious..

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  4. I love dim sum and these dumplings look delicious...Now I'm really hungry! Ciao. Antonella

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  5. I love this! Not to mention shrimp dumplings are so good. I used to go to chinatown in New York city to eat dim sum on sundays and always got dumplings. thanks for sharing!

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  6. Its a long time since you posted a food photo, thanks - at last! I've never tried dim sum, so I've never tried these. They look tasty though :)

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  7. Mmh, yummy, I love them, one of my favorite food. Now I'm getting *really* hungry.

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  8. Too bad I've already eaten dinner. This photo makes me want to eat Chinese.

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  9. I can smell and even better - taste these - yum!!!

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  10. wow! im sure it tastes good coz it rhymes when i say "wow kahaw!". i like those chinese foods. relatively it taste like siomai.

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  11. Yummmy! Unfortunately the Chinese restaurants around here don't usually have dim sum on the menu. I enjoyed the different varities while I was in China though. These look really good.

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