

These delicious deep-fried dumplings have a wrapper made from mashed taro root. Siu Mai has a shrimp and pork filling, with a bit of crab or fish roe sprinkled on top. These distinctive looking dumplings are shaped like a basket with the filling sticking out over the top. Here, they continue the tradition of wheeling the carts out so you can choose whatever looks good. Squares of green bell pepper are covered with shrimp paste and fried. Dim sum where I live is ordered off a menu. Purple eggplant is stuffed with a shrimp paste, fried, and then topped with sauce. The filling is generally, seasoned with oyster sauce, soy sauce, and sugar. A classic spring roll filling consists of dried mushrooms, and shredded meat, and carrot or bamboo shoots. Made with a thinner wrapper, spring rolls are lighter and less filling than egg rolls. Sticky rice and meats (often including Chinese sausage) wrapped in lotus leaves.Ī light, refreshing dim sum dessert made with sweet fresh mango fruit.īalls of glutinous rice flour and brown sugar are filled with sweet red bean paste, rolled in sesame seeds, and deep-fried.Ī shrimp paste mixture is spread on toast points and deep-fried. The steamed cake is a popular dish during the Lunar New Year’s season but is also served for dim sum throughout the year. Gow gee, on the other hand, is frequently pan-fried.Ī cake made with Chinese turnip, which is similar to the Japanese daikon radish, and rice flour (not glutinous rice flour). Although Chinese dumplings may be cooked in many ways, when people refer to jiaozi, they generally mean dumplings that are boiled in water or broth. Jiaozi (jao-tze, Mandarin) or Gow Gee (Cantonese)Ĭhinese dumplings.The transparency of the dumpling wrapper comes from using wheat starch in the dough. Those great shiny, translucent shrimp dumplings. They are filled with pork and bamboo shoots. Like the more famous har gau (see below), these dumplings are translucent dumplings. The marinade often includes black bean sauce and/or oyster sauce. They are usually stir-fried or deep-fried, then marinated, and finally, steamed. These have a similar filling to Taro Dumplings ( Wu Gok) but are covered in a wrapper and in a pastry made with glutinous (sweet) rice before deep-frying.Ī steamed custard that may include meat or seafood.Ĭhicken's feet. Ham Sui Gok (Deep-Fried Crescent Dumplings).Squid or cuttlefish is marinated in a curry sauce and steamed. Qty BY Order: Har Gow x4, Sui Mai x4, BBQ Pork Bun x1, Sticky Rice x1, Cabbage Pork Bun x1, Special Chicken Sui Mai x2, House Dumpling x2, Spring Roll x2, Crispy Shrimp Roll x2, Baked BBQ Pork Bun x2, Won Ton Soup x2, Lava Bun 2. Rice noodle sheets are filled with shrimp, beef, or pork, then steamed or pan-fried. The famous steamed buns stuffed with barbecued pork So after exploring the small shops and sites of Harvard, join us for a Mai Tai at our bar and ask our host staff for a validated parking pass at their enclosed garage (air for tires, EV charging and other amenities available).Seasoned ground or minced beef, placed on bean curd skins and steamed We have partnered with the renown four star Charles Hotel located at 1 Bennett St, Cambridge, MA 02138 to offer reduced parking at $10.00 for a period of three (3) hours after 5:00 PM (each hour is $10.00 thereafter). There is also two private garages in close proximity, the Charles Hotel garage and University Parking garage.

We are lucky that Wusong road is located adjacent to the City of Cambridge’s only Municipal Parking lot (25𝇍 per 15 minutes). Harvard Square is home to many very, very, very, incomprehensibly expensive parking facilities. When at South Station switch over to the Inbound Red Line train and take six stops (about 15 minutes) to Harvard Sq Station.īy Automobile & Validated Discounted Parking Take the Silver Line (SL1) towards South Station. Take the Red Line to Harvard Station and from there it’s less than a five minute walk through Brattle Square towards the Charles Hotel. Tucked between a municipal parking garage and active MBTA bus way you might just walk by and not know we were even there.

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