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What's Cantonese dim sum?

1, Guangdong dim sum classification

The variety, style and flavor of dim sum are composed of skin, stuffing and technology. At present, there are four categories and twenty-three kinds of pastry skins in Guangdong. There are 46 kinds of fillings in three categories. With superb skills, pastry chefs make various fancy beauty points for these ever-changing combinations and shapes of different skins and fillings. Among all kinds of snacks, representative famous products are: fresh shrimp lotus leaf rice, green white rabbit dumplings, fried radish cakes, water chestnut cakes, preserved egg cakes, frozen meat thousand-layer cakes, barbecued pork buns, crispy lotus seed buns, sesame buns, cactus buns, fruit powder, porridge, dry steamed crab yellow steamed dumplings and so on.

Step 2 introduce

Guangzhou dim sum, also known as Guangdong dim sum, is an important part of Han nationality's food culture. Based on Lingnan snacks, it has been developed by extensively absorbing the skills of court cakes and western cakes in northern China, including the six ancient capitals. There are more than 1000 varieties, which is the most variety of dim sum in China.