Local Restaurant Guangzhou --- Dao Xiang 稻香酒家

Dim Sum

is a very traditional Cantonese breakfast cuisine. in the past, Dim Sum only serves in the Tea house (茶楼)  in the morning breakfast time ( everyday before 10 a.m.), as tea used to be a must have drink in the morning, and dim sum usually serve with tea. in the past, tea house all most means restaurant. nowadays, only retired people have time to enjoy a cup of tea and few pieces of dim sum in the morning. so many restaurants begin to serve all day dim sum. 

Dao Xiang is one of my favourite dim sum restaurant.

Address: 706-708b, 7th floor, Tee Mall.  

there are hundreds of categories of Cantonese dim sum. here are some of the most popular kinds: 

(the EU has announced a new law that requires restaurants tell customers if there food contain a ingredients known to trigger allergies. if you allergy with something and are travelling in China, you have to pay attention on your food, as restaurants in China would not label ingredients on menu. here i only mentioned main ingredients, as all the restaurants have their secrets. Oh, be caution that most Cantonese food are cooked with peanut oil, if you were allergy of peanut, there might be a risk. )

 虾饺
Prawn dumpling
main ingredients: prawn, pork, rice flour, ginger

烧卖
Pork steam dumpling
main ingredients: pork, duck egg, flour, crab roe

 香茜饺
Parsley steam dumpling
main ingredients: Parsley, pork, carrot, rice flour, crab roe

牛肉丸

Steam beef ball

main ingredients: beef, dried tangerine peel 

 春卷
Spring roll
main ingredients: fish, prawn, scallion, flour

 蛋散
Egg pastry
main ingredients: egg, flour, sugar,lard,sesame seed

蛋挞

Egg tart 

main ingredients: egg, flour, sugar,lard

 萝卜糕
radish pancake
main ingredients: rice flour, radish, pork

 马蹄糕
Water chestnut pancake
main ingredients:
Water chestnut,sugar

红枣糕

Dates jelly

main ingredients: Dates, sticky rice flour

 香芋蒸排骨
Steam pork ribs with taro
main ingredients: taro,pork ribs,pickled soya bean

凤爪
Steam chicken feet
 main ingredients: chicken feet

牛柏叶

Omasum

main ingredients: Omasum

 咸肉粽
Traditional chinese rice-pudding
main ingredients: sticky rice, peanut, mung bean, pork,egg yolk, mushroom.

糯米鸡

Chicken sticky rice pudding 

main ingredients: sticky rice,chicken, mushroom,egg yolk

猪脚姜

Ginger pork foot

main ingredients: ginger, pork foot, egg,sweet vinegar 

肠粉

Steam rice roll

main ingredients: rice flour, meat (choice are very: pork, beef, prawn...)