The Peninsula Hong Kong - Spring Moon
This year, Spring Moon is offering four different flavours of rice dumplings that are available individually as well as in gift sets – perfect as a gift or something for yourself. With generous portions and a rich abalone aroma, its Premium Glutinous Rice Dumpling features glutinous rice seasoned with abalone sauce and a selection of premium ingredients including 30-head dried Middle Eastern abalone, Jinhua ham and conpoy. Those who love spicy flavours can enjoy the rice dumplings with one of the three condiments created by the restaurant: XO chilli sauce, Sichuan chilli sauce, and Chiu Chow chilli sauce.
JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong - Man Ho
Apart from crowd favourites like dried abalone rice dumpling and red bean and pork rice dumpling, Man Ho has introduced the all-new Hokkien rice dumpling this year. To craft this authentic, traditional Hokkien-style rice dumpling, glutinous rice is stir-fried with soy sauce, five-spice powder and shallot oil to release a savoury and enticing aroma. Executive Chinese chef Jayson Tang has carefully chosen ingredients such as premium Japanese shiitake mushroom, chestnut, minced dried shrimp and pork belly for the filling. In particular, the pork belly has been braised until very tender to give a variety of textures. Its fragrant oil infuses into the already flavourful glutinous rice, so there’s no need to dip the rice dumpling into soy sauce, but a sweet chilli sauce is recommended if you want to savour it the traditional way.
Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong - Shang Palace
Shang Palace is known for the variety of rice dumplings that it offers, and the newly appointed executive Chinese chef Raymond Wong has introduced even more new creations: the sticky rice dumpling in Chiu Chow style served in bamboo, as well as the Taiwanese sticky rice dumpling in Hakka style. Chiu Chow-style rice dumplings are known for its unique combination of sweet and savoury flavours. The glutinous rice is imbued with the savoury and oily goodness of the pork and the sweetness of red bean paste. The Hakka-style rice dumpling features traditional ingredients such as pork, preserved radish, dried shrimp and mushroom. These are stir-fried over high heat to impart an exquisitely rich flavour that is authentically Hakka in style.RELATED: Best Char Siu in Hong Kong
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong - One Harbour Road
Executive Chinese chef Chan Hon-cheong has crafted two flavours of gourmet rice dumplings presented in a newly designed luxurious gift box for this Dragon Boat Festival. One of them is a traditional rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves and filled with a selection of savoury ingredients including abalone, conpoy, egg yolk, pork belly, mushrooms and Yunnan ham. The other creation is a nutritious sweet dumpling with red bean, mung bean, millet, pelted wheat, osmanthus and tangerine peel. This sweet dumpling with a refreshing aroma is a must-try for those with a sweet tooth.
Cordis, Hong Kong - Ming Court
This year, Ming Court has launched one sweet and one savoury rice dumpling in celebration of Dragon Boat Festival. Created by head dim sum chef Tse Sun-fuk, the sweet dumpling combines purple and white sticky rice for a chewy texture and higher nutritional value. The filling is a smooth and delicious paste of red bean and aged tangerine peel, as well as white lotus seeds. The rich and fragrant flavour of tangerine peel elevates the red bean aroma, offering a light and refreshing sweetness. The set also comes with two pieces of tangerine pu-erh tea. A perfect accompaniment to the unique and flavoursome purple sticky rice dumpling, the rich tea has a lovely fruity fragrance when brewed, and is excellent at cutting through any greasiness.
Rosewood Hong Kong - The Legacy House
Presented in an eco-friendly gift box, The Legacy House is offering two styles of rice dumplings: a sweet one with golden chestnuts, and a savoury one with abalone and mushrooms. For the vegan steamed sweet rice dumpling with chestnuts, glutinous rice is soaked and softened in alkaline water, then stuffed with whole chestnuts and lotus seed paste. The savoury rice dumpling is filled with “Eight Treasures” ingredients, such as six-head South African abalone, mung bean, pork belly, chestnut, lotus seed, conpoy, chanterelle, porcini and shiitake mushrooms. The ingredients are first seasoned with Shao Hsing hua diao wine, soy sauce, sugar and five-spice, then wrapped in glutinous rice and bamboo leaves, and slow-cooked for seven hours.
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong - Lung King Heen
Lung King Heen is celebrating this year’s Dragon Boat Festival with two rice dumpling gift sets, one of which is the organic glutinous grain rice dumpling with abalone and conpoy, a long-time crowd pleaser packed with ingredients such as organic ten-grain rice, South African abalone, roast goose, pork, Chinese mushroom and salted egg yolk. The restaurant has also introduced two new flavours: the sweet glutinous rice dumpling with osmanthus and green bean paste, as well as the savoury glutinous rice dumpling with pork knuckle, conpoy, sarcodon aspratus and spicy termite mushrooms. The sweet one is a reinterpretation of the classic red bean rice dumpling, where the mung beans are first soaked then simmered in hot water for six hours. For the savoury creation, the staple ingredient of pork belly is replaced with Lung King Heen’s famous pork knuckle in sand ginger sauce, while the mushrooms lend a mild spicy kick for extra flavour and aroma. The gift set also comes with aged Chinese white tea.
Hero image by Ming Court.
The article was written by 潘小熊 and translated by Iris Wong. Read original article here.
