Description
A phantom dim sum soup of Fujian origin, using a 'meat wrapper (Yan Pi)'—pork pounded with sweet potato flour—to enclose a pork filling, offering supreme elasticity and umami.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Rouyan(Meat-wrapper wontons)
- Pork bone broth
- Celery
- Fried shallots
- White pepper
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Making Yan Pi (Meat Wrapper)] Pound lean pork with a wooden stick for hours into a paste, add sweet potato flour, and roll paper-thin with a rolling pin (this becomes the wonton wrapper 'Yan Pi'. *Generally bought at specialty shops now).
- [Filling] Mix minced pork with shallots, water chestnut (for crunch), soy sauce, and sesame oil.
- Cut Yan Pi into squares, place filling, and wrap tightly like a wonton.
- Boil clear pork bone broth in a pot.
- Toss in Rouyan, boil until the wrapper becomes translucent and floats.
- Season soup with salt, white pepper, sesame oil.
- Plate, scatter minced celery and You Cong Su (fried shallots).
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Celery and Fried shallot aroma
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Store-bought thin-skin meat wontons (though wrapper texture differs)
Pairing
Dry tossed noodles or Fried Rice
Trivia
[Hardcore] A traditional dish rooted in Fuzhou, Fujian, made with the mad method of 'wrapping meat in meat'. The 'repelling elasticity' is on a different dimension from wheat wrappers, and the wrapper itself releases pork umami. A must-eat if found in market specialty shops.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Slowly enjoy the intense 'silky, chewy, bouncy!' bite unique to Yan Pi—unfound in regular wheat wontons—along with the soup!
Allergen
Pork, Soy, Wheat (from soy sauce)