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Steamed meatball

Steamed meatball

Overview
Steamed meatball is a Cantonese
Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in southern China. Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is renowned both inside and outside China. Its prominence outside China is due to its palatability to Westerners and the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong...

 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. Yum cha is the term used to describe the entire dining experience, especially in contemporary Cantonese...

 dish. It is popular in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

 and most overseas Chinatowns. The meatball is made of beef
Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle . Beef is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, Europe and America, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia...

, and usually has a tofu skin layer in the bottom, garnished with some vegetables like scallion
Scallion
A scallion is an edible plant the genus Allium. The upper green portion is hollow. It lacks a fully-developed root bulb. They are milder than most onions. They may be cooked or used raw, as a part of salads or Asian recipes. Diced scallions are used in soup, noodle and seafood dishes...

s. It is served with the standardized non-Chinese worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce , or often Worcester Sauce is a fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring many cooked and uncooked dishes, especially with grilled or barbecued meats...

worldwide. The sauce in Hong Kong is known as kip zap (喼汁; Yale: gip3jap1), and is entirely optional.
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Steamed meatball is a Cantonese
Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in southern China. Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is renowned both inside and outside China. Its prominence outside China is due to its palatability to Westerners and the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong...

 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. Yum cha is the term used to describe the entire dining experience, especially in contemporary Cantonese...

 dish. It is popular in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

 and most overseas Chinatowns. The meatball is made of beef
Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle . Beef is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, Europe and America, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia...

, and usually has a tofu skin layer in the bottom, garnished with some vegetables like scallion
Scallion
A scallion is an edible plant the genus Allium. The upper green portion is hollow. It lacks a fully-developed root bulb. They are milder than most onions. They may be cooked or used raw, as a part of salads or Asian recipes. Diced scallions are used in soup, noodle and seafood dishes...

s. It is served with the standardized non-Chinese worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce , or often Worcester Sauce is a fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring many cooked and uncooked dishes, especially with grilled or barbecued meats...

worldwide. The sauce in Hong Kong is known as kip zap (喼汁; Yale: gip3jap1), and is entirely optional.