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By Eleanor Wong 

Cheung Fun !

A fantastic addition to your steamed dim sum table is the popular and delicious Cheung fun; rice noodle roll. Large rice noodle wrapped around a huge variety of fillings and dipped into spicy, sweet or sour sauces, depending on your tastes or where you are in the world.

This simple but tasty dish originated in the Guangdong Province of Southern China but has since travelled and been adapted by many countries, who have made it their own. In Maylasia you’ll often find your ‘chee cheung fun’; called so due to its appearance to a pig intestine, served with shrimp paste. In Maylasia and Singapore it’s regularly eaten as part of the breakfast meal.

In the traditional Cantonese style it is good for breakfast or a welcome addition to the lunch table, alongside many other types of dim sum. The outer roll is made from rice noodle, made using rice flour. It’s transparent and has been likened to jelly. Usually it is found alongside a cooked green, such as lettuce or pak choi, but can be served with any vegetable garnish. Like other streamed dim sum it can have a huge variety of different fillings, satisfying all different tastes…meat, fish, shellfish and vegetables are all included. To complete the delicious experience you’ll find a dipping sauce along-side. This could include soy, oyster sauce, peanut butter, hoisin or sesame sauce.

It is a terrific dish to be had in many ways. You can even add a great crunch to your cheung fun by filling it with crispy, deep fried glutinous dough; imagine a doughnut inside the rice noodle and you’re pretty close!

You can try a great variety of this tasty treat at Chung Ying Cantonese Restaurant in China Town, Birmingham. Here they boast one of the largest dim sum menus in the whole of the UK, giving you plenty of opportunity to try a plethora of authentic Cantonese cheung fun, amongst other fantastic dishes.

View the Cheung Fun selection at Chung Ying here https://www.chungying.co.uk/chung-ying-cantonese-menu#dim-sums