Originally uploaded by sola.gurl

This is known as 'Har Gow' where 'har' means shrimp and 'gow' means dumpling in Cantonese. This item is one of the hot favourites of many people. It is like a piece of food art. The ingredients are wheat starch, shrimp, tapioca starch, pork fat that is cooked, scallions, bamboo shoots, cornstarch, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar as well as seasonings. If you want to watch how it can be done, here's a video posted in a previous post.