鹹水角

Pronunciation
English Name

deep-fried dumpling

Cantonese (Traditional)

鹹水角

Simplified Chinese

咸水角

Mandarin (Pinyin)

xián shuǐ jiǎo


Yale Romanization

hàahm séui gok

Character Breakdown

is salty, is water, and is horn-shaped, so 鹹水角 is salt water horn-shaped dumpling.

deep-fried dumpling
About This Dish

Deep-fried dumplings with a sticky rice-flour shell and filled with pork.

At a dim sum shop in a Vietnamese supermarket, I heard a customer refer to these dumplings as “footballs” (and the server understood), although they are not the only football-shaped dim sum.

Quick Facts
Categories:
點心
Yale:
hàahm séui gok