Comments on: Oriental City https://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/ A (photo) diary of our dinners Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: L https://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:50:58 +0000 http://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/#comment-1001 Do try it next time you’re having dim sum (most chinatown restaurants will have it, though I doubt those Westernised chains like Ping Pong will) do try it.

As yes, XO sauce is a favourite of many Hong Kongese – its a sauce made with dried seafood, usually scallops, dried fish etc cooked with chillis, garlic, onions. Its quite a pricey one in terms of sauces, the XO is used to denote high quality or prestigious products.

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By: Stephen https://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:56:40 +0000 http://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/#comment-1000 Thanks, that’ll teach me not to look up the spelling when being unsure 😉

Hmm the deep fried batter versions sounds interesting, I’ve never had that. Cheung fun are probably my favourite dim sum and although I’ll vary other dishes that I order, I always have some variation of it; usually the scallop ones. I remember being intruiged by the mysterious “XO” cheung fun on menus in Chinatown and ordered it once but don’t remember what it was like.

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By: L https://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:49:31 +0000 http://dinnerdiary.org/2007/11/18/oriental-city/#comment-999 For future reference (in case you order it again), it’s cheung fun (fun means noodle). There are many variations, including a char siu stuffing and a deep fried batter stuffing which is particularly delicious. Beautiful pictures!

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