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Sou is a type of dried flaky Chinese pastry found in a number of Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
.

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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....
 restaurants, 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....
 sou is the most common version available. Other varieties may include century egg
Century egg

Century egg, also known as preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, and thousand-year-old egg, is a Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail egg in mixture of clay, ash, salt, Calcium oxide, and rice straw for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processin...
 and lotus seed paste
Lotus seed paste

Lotus seed paste is a China dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds....
. These are commonly found in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 or Singapore
Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
 in Asia. They may occasionally be found in some overseas Chinatowns.

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Shanghai cuisine

Shanghai cuisine , also known as Hu cai is a popular style of Chinese cuisine....
 a number of dried varieties are available.






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Sou is a type of dried flaky Chinese pastry found in a number of Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
.

Dim sum

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....
 restaurants, 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....
 sou is the most common version available. Other varieties may include century egg
Century egg

Century egg, also known as preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, and thousand-year-old egg, is a Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail egg in mixture of clay, ash, salt, Calcium oxide, and rice straw for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processin...
 and lotus seed paste
Lotus seed paste

Lotus seed paste is a China dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds....
. These are commonly found in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 or Singapore
Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
 in Asia. They may occasionally be found in some overseas Chinatowns.

Shanghai cuisine

In Shanghai cuisine
Shanghai cuisine

Shanghai cuisine , also known as Hu cai is a popular style of Chinese cuisine....
 a number of dried varieties are available. Such as peanut
Peanut

The peanut, or groundnut , is a species in the legume Fabaceae native to South America, Mexico and Central America. It is an annual plant herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm tall....
 sou,green bean
Green bean

Green beans , French beans or runner beans , also called squeaky beans, are the unripe fruit of any kind of bean, including the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the winged bean, and especially the common bean , whose pods are also usually called string beans in the northeastern United States, but can also go by snap b...
 sou or walnut
Walnut

Walnuts are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meter s tall , with pinnate leaves 200?900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnut but not the hickory in the same family....
 sou. People often buy them for sourvenirs in boxed forms.

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See also

  • Char siu baau
  • Ox-tongue pastry
    Ox-tongue pastry

    Ox-tongue pastry is a Chinese fried dough foods that is elliptical in shape and resembles an ox tongue. The pastry texture is chewy, with a soft interior and a crunchy crust....