Suanla chaoshou
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Suanla Chaoshou is a dish of Szechuan cuisine that consists of a spicy sauce over steamed, meat-filled dumplings. "Suanla" means "sour hot", and "Chaoshou" is what these particular large wontons are called in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
"Chao shou" translates literally as "folded hands"[1]; in Sichuan dialect this refers to a style of dumpling whose square wrapper is folded into two points, one crossed over the other. According to Peter Hessler (Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker and former Peace Corps teacher), "In most parts of Sichuan, you can walk into a restaurant and order chaoshou without making a sound. Cross your arms and they will understand exactly what you want."[2] One native speaker claims the Sichuan-only name for these dumplings may have originated at one time by a dialectic transposition[citation needed], i.e. "chao shou" was originally "shou chao", meaning "hand-folded".
A popular restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts named Mary Chung's serves a dish called Suan La Chow Show, which are dumplings in a spicy soy ginger sauce on top of a bed of raw mung bean sprouts. This popular dish is slightly different from the authentic[citation needed] Suanla Chaoshou, which has a hot garlicky peanut sauce on top of dumplings.
[edit] References
- ^ McCawley, James D. (1984). The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters, p. 118 (L3a.4c). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-55591-7
- ^ Hessler, Peter (2001). River Town, p.254. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-060-85502-9
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