Name: Quail Egg Siu Mai Dim Sum Dumpling 鵪鶉蛋燒賣
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 32 min
Yield: 11
Cuisine: chinese
Ingredients: 25 siu mai dough wrappers (check out our Homemade Siu Mai Wrapper Recipe); 11 quail eggs (or 22 if you want to use whole eggs); 13 oz fresh shrimp, 375g; 3 medium sized Chinese dried shitake mushroom; 12 oz ground pork, 338g; 1 tsp salt; 4 tsp cold water; 1 3/4 tbsp potato starch (or corn starch); 2 1/2 tbsp crush ice cubes, 38g; 1 tbsp sugar; 1/8 tsp Chinese white pepper; 1 tsp sesame oil; 1/2 tsp dried flounder fish powder 大地魚粉; 1 tbsp sweet soy sauce (for dipping)

April 29, 2023

Quail Egg Siu Mai Dim Sum Dumpling 鵪鶉蛋燒賣

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We continue with our Dim Sum series today with this classic Quail Egg Siu Mai dumpling 鵪鶉蛋燒賣. It’s seldom offered in dim sum restaurants nowadays, not sure why cuz these are the most delightful and delicious little dumplings.

The Quail Egg Siu Mai features the same fragrantly savoury pork and shrimp filling of its much better known cousin, the iconic Siu Mai 燒賣 dumpling, but it has the added lovely surprise of a perfectly cooked little egg wrapped inside. I still remember my wonder and delight the first time I ate one of these, it was so perfect, the combination of the smooth slippery egg and the luscious juicy meat!

April 13, 2017

Chinese Salt Baked Quail Egg 鹽焗鵪鶉蛋

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Cheep, cheep! Presenting our interpretation of a 'natural' Easter: this year we bring together the idea of Easter eggs and the idea of street food culture in Hong Kong. Our Easter nest is full of tiny naturally speckled eggs!

Namely the delicate Chinese Salt Baked Quail Eggs, or 鹽焗鵪鶉蛋, usually found at your local street hawker, these roasty, just salty wee eggs come still piping hot in a paper bag. There's nothing quite like it to have in your pocket on a windy day to warm your fingers with!