Fun guo

Fun guo, or Chaozhou fun guo sometimes spelled fun quor, fun gor, fen guo, Chiu Chow dumpling or Teochew dumpling is a variety of dumpling from the Chaozhou area of coastal eastern Guangdong, a province in Southern China.

Ingredients

They are typically filled with chopped peanuts, garlic chives, pork, dried shrimp, dried radish and shiitake mushrooms. Other filling ingredients may include cilantro, jicama, or dried daikon. The filling is wrapped in a thick dumpling wrapper made from a mixture of flours or plant starches mixed together with boiling water. Although the recipe for the wrapper dough may vary, it typically consists of de-glutenized wheat flour , tapioca flour , and or potato starch . The dumplings are usually served with a small dish of chili oil.

Teochew cuisine

In the Chaozhou dialect of Min Nan, the dumplings are called ''hung gue'' , but they are more widely known by their Cantonese name. They are also eaten in non-Chaozhou regions of Guangdong.