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Peen tong at a supermarket in Haikou, Hainan, China. Peen tong or pian tang (Chinese: 片糖; pinyin: piàntáng; Jyutping: pin3 tong4; Cantonese Yale: pintòng) and wong tong (Chinese: 黃糖; pinyin: huángtáng; Jyutping: wong4 tong4; Cantonese Yale: wòngtòng), [1] is a Chinese brown sugar and sugar candy that is used in various Chinese desserts and also consumed alone as a snack.
Wonton noodles (Chinese: 雲吞麵; Jyutping: wan4 tan1 min6; Cantonese Yale: wàhn tān mihn, also called wantan mee or wantan mein) is a noodle dish of Cantonese origin. [1] Wonton noodles were given their name, húntún (Chinese: 餛飩; Jyutping: wan4 tan1), in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE). [2]
The ancient Han Chinese thought wonton were a sealed bun, lacking "qi qiao" ('seven orifices'), so it was called "hun dun" (混沌), which means 'turbidity' or 'chaos'. Based on the Chinese method of making written characters, the radicals are changed from water to food; then, they became "hun tun" (餛飩, wonton in Cantonese). At that time ...
Crab rangoon was on the menu of the "Polynesian-style" restaurant Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills in 1955 [14] and in San Francisco since at least 1956.[15] [16] [17] Although the appetizer has the name of the Burmese city of Rangoon, now known by Burmese as 'Yangon', [18] the dish was probably invented in the United States by Chinese-American chef Joe Young working under Victor Bergeron ...
He ran the restaurant himself and retired again in 1996. The business was succeeded by his second son Mak Chi-ming, the current proprietor. [3] In recent years, Mak's Noodle has established outlets at Olympian City, China Hong Kong City, Causeway Bay and Jordan, and one restaurant in Macau. Their first Singapore outlet opened on Orchard Road in ...
Wong was born in early 1980s into a family that operates Chinese restaurants, including his parents Albert and Annie. [2] [5] Wong's grandfather, a Chinese immigrant, owned some East End pubs and a restaurant in Chinatown, London. [3] [5] Wong initially did not aspire a career in hospitality, and his father wanted him to pursue further ...
A wonton font (also known as Chinese, chopstick, chop suey, [1] or kung-fu) is a mimicry typeface with a visual style intended to express an East Asian, or more specifically, Chinese typographic sense of aestheticism. Styled to mimic the brush strokes used in Chinese characters, wonton fonts often convey a sense of Orientalism. In modern times ...
Yanpi (Chinese: 燕皮; pinyin: yànpí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ian phî; lit. 'swallow skin') is a type of wonton skin used in Chinese cuisine. Lean pork meat taken from the shanks is mixed with glutinous rice, pounded to a paste, then sprinkled with starch. The meat gives yanpi a taste and texture similar to that of surimi.