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A rice noodle roll (also translated as steamed rice roll) is a Cantonese
Cantonese cuisine

Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in Southern China, or specifically from Guangzhou . Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is the best known outside China; most "Chinese restaurants" in Western countries serve Cantonese cuisine and dishes based on it....
 dish from southern China and Hong Kong
Cuisine of Hong Kong

The cuisine of Hong Kong is Cantonese cuisine with extensive influences from parts of non-Cantonese-speaking China , The West, Japan, and Southeast Asia, due to Hong Kong's past as a British colony and long history of being an international city of commerce....
, commonly served as a variety of dim sum
Dim sum

Dim sum is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea. It is usually served in the mornings until noon time at Chinese restaurants and at specialty dim sum eateries where typical dishes are available throughout the day....
. It is a thin roll made from a wide strip of Shahe fen
Shahe fen

Shahe fen or he fen is a type of wide Chinese noodle made from rice....
 (rice noodles
Rice noodles

Rice noodles are noodles that are made from rice. Their principal ingredients are rice flour and water. However, sometimes other ingredients such as tapioca or cornstarch are also added in order to improve the transparency or increase the gelatinous and chewy texture of the noodles....
), filled with shrimp, pork, beef, vegetables, or other ingredients. Sweet soy sauce
Soy sauce

Soy sauce , soya sauce , or shoyu is a fermentation sauce made from soybeans , roasted cereal, water and Sodium chloride. Soy sauce was invented in China, where it has been used as a condiment for close to 2,500 years....
 is poured over the dish upon serving. The rice noodle is also known as chee cheong fun where chee cheong means pig intestine, and fun means noodle; this is because the noodle resembles the small intestine of a pig.






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A rice noodle roll (also translated as steamed rice roll) is a Cantonese
Cantonese cuisine

Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in Southern China, or specifically from Guangzhou . Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is the best known outside China; most "Chinese restaurants" in Western countries serve Cantonese cuisine and dishes based on it....
 dish from southern China and Hong Kong
Cuisine of Hong Kong

The cuisine of Hong Kong is Cantonese cuisine with extensive influences from parts of non-Cantonese-speaking China , The West, Japan, and Southeast Asia, due to Hong Kong's past as a British colony and long history of being an international city of commerce....
, commonly served as a variety of dim sum
Dim sum

Dim sum is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea. It is usually served in the mornings until noon time at Chinese restaurants and at specialty dim sum eateries where typical dishes are available throughout the day....
. It is a thin roll made from a wide strip of Shahe fen
Shahe fen

Shahe fen or he fen is a type of wide Chinese noodle made from rice....
 (rice noodles
Rice noodles

Rice noodles are noodles that are made from rice. Their principal ingredients are rice flour and water. However, sometimes other ingredients such as tapioca or cornstarch are also added in order to improve the transparency or increase the gelatinous and chewy texture of the noodles....
), filled with shrimp, pork, beef, vegetables, or other ingredients. Sweet soy sauce
Soy sauce

Soy sauce , soya sauce , or shoyu is a fermentation sauce made from soybeans , roasted cereal, water and Sodium chloride. Soy sauce was invented in China, where it has been used as a condiment for close to 2,500 years....
 is poured over the dish upon serving. The rice noodle is also known as chee cheong fun where chee cheong means pig intestine, and fun means noodle; this is because the noodle resembles the small intestine of a pig. A very similar dish to this is the Vietnamese bánh cu?n
Bánh cu?n

B?nh cu?n is a dish from northern Vietnam. It is a cr?pe-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice flour filled with ground pork, minced Wood ear, and other ingredients....
.

Preparation

The rice noodle sheets are made from a viscous mixture of rice flour
Rice flour

Rice flour is a form of flour made from finely milled rice.Rice flour may be made from either white rice or brown rice. To make the flour, the husk of rice or paddy is removed and raw rice is obtained....
 and water. This liquid is poured onto a specially-made flat pan in which it is steamed to produce the square rice sheets. Chee cheong fun can be served with different flavour of sauce.

Regional


Cantonese cuisine

In Cantonese cuisine, rice noodle roll is most often served in dim sum
Dim sum

Dim sum is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea. It is usually served in the mornings until noon time at Chinese restaurants and at specialty dim sum eateries where typical dishes are available throughout the day....
. The most common types offered as part of dim sum cuisine are:
  • Rice noodle roll with shrimp (??; Cantonese: haa1 coeng4)
  • Rice noodle roll with dried shrimp
    Dried shrimp

    Dried shrimp are shrimp that have been sun dried and shrunk to a thumbnail size. They are used primarily in Chinese cuisine, imparting a unique umami taste....
     (???; Cantonese: haa1 mai5 coeng4)
  • Rice noodle roll with beef (???; Cantonese: ngau4 juk6 coeng4)
  • Rice noodle roll with char siu
    Char siu

    Char siu , otherwise known as barbecued pork in China or Chinese barbecued/roast pork outside China, is a popular way to prepare pork in Cantonese cuisine....
     (???; Cantonese: char1 siu1 coeng4)
Other varieties that may be offered include:
  • Rice noodle roll with chicken and bitter melon
    Bitter melon

    Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit, which is among the most Taste#Bitterness of all vegetables....
  • Rice noodle roll with conpoy
    Conpoy

    Conpoy or dried scallop is type of dried seafood product made from the adductor muscle of scallops. The smell of conpoy is marine, pungent, and reminiscent of certain salt-cured meats....
     and pea shoot
  • Rice noodle roll with fish
  • Rice noodle roll with Youtiao
    Youtiao

    Youtiao, you char kway, or yau ja gwai , sometimes known in English as Chinese cruller fried bread stick or Chinese doughnut, is a long, golden-brown, deep frying strip of dough in Chinese cuisine and other East Asia and Southeast Asian cuisines and is usually eaten for breakfast....
     also known as Zhaliang
    Zhaliang

    Zhaliang is a kind of food in Chinese cuisine. It is made by tightly wrapping rice noodle roll outside of youtiao . It is most popular in the Guangdong province of southern China, as well as in Hong Kong....


Vietnamese cuisine

In Vietnamese cuisine, it is called bánh cu?n
Bánh cu?n

B?nh cu?n is a dish from northern Vietnam. It is a cr?pe-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice flour filled with ground pork, minced Wood ear, and other ingredients....
, and it is mostly eaten for breakfast
Breakfast

Breakfast is a meal eaten after a long period of sleep, most often eaten in the morning. The word came about because it means breaking the fast after one has not eaten since the night before....
. It is a crêpe
Crêpe

A cr?pe is a type of very thin, cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of France origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled." While cr?pes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is nowadays widespread in France and it is considered...
-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice noodle (similar to Shahe fen
Shahe fen

Shahe fen or he fen is a type of wide Chinese noodle made from rice....
) that can be filled with ground pork
Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig . The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats It is one of the most-commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry dating back...
 and other ingredients. Sides for this dish usually consist of ch? l?a (Vietnamese pork sausage) and bean sprouts, while the dipping sauce is called nu?c ch?m
Nu?c ch?m

Nu?c ch?m, also known as nu?c m?m pha, refers to a variety of Vietnam "Dip sauces" that are served quite frequently as condiments. The consistency is close to water, and is clear, with an orangey-brown color to it....
. Sometimes, a drop of cà cu?ng, which is the essence of a giant water bug, Lethocerus indicus, is added to the nu?c ch?m
Nu?c ch?m

Nu?c ch?m, also known as nu?c m?m pha, refers to a variety of Vietnam "Dip sauces" that are served quite frequently as condiments. The consistency is close to water, and is clear, with an orangey-brown color to it....
 for extra flavor, although this ingredient is scarce and quite expensive.

Southeast Asian cuisine

In Singapore and Malaysian cuisine, In Malaysia, many people prefer serving chee cheong fun with a kind of black sweet sauce called (??, timzheong). It is likely a variation of hoisin sauce
Hoisin sauce

Hoisin sauce, or Haixian Sauce, also called suckling pig sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word Hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese language word for seafood "" as pronounced in Yue Chinese....
. The popular Malaysian Penang version uses a shrimp paste
Shrimp paste

File:Shrimp.paste-Belachan-01.jpgFile:Drying shrimp paste.jpgShrimp paste or shrimp sauce, is a common ingredient used in Southeast Asia and Southern Chinese cuisine....
 called hae ko which is also black and sweet. Others prefer specially-made chili sauce or mix the two together. Chee cheong fun is a popular breakfast food in Singapore and Malaysia. Chee cheong fun is frequently served in kopitiams and Chinese restaurants.

Other variations

There is another kind of food which is similar to chee cheong fun, called laicheong in Cantonese. This food is popular in Guangzhou
Guangzhou

'Guangzhou' is the Capital and a sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province of China in the northern and southern China part of the People's Republic of China....
.

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See also

  • Shahe fen
    Shahe fen

    Shahe fen or he fen is a type of wide Chinese noodle made from rice....
  • Bánh cu?n
    Bánh cu?n

    B?nh cu?n is a dish from northern Vietnam. It is a cr?pe-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice flour filled with ground pork, minced Wood ear, and other ingredients....
  • Zhaliang
    Zhaliang

    Zhaliang is a kind of food in Chinese cuisine. It is made by tightly wrapping rice noodle roll outside of youtiao . It is most popular in the Guangdong province of southern China, as well as in Hong Kong....