Chinese pastries - TAY

[Dejah]

Been feeling nostalgic and missing my Mom's cooking, especially during Lunar New Year. She used to make so many "tay" - pastries. One that I loved was the Haam shui Gok. I have never made them before, but between my 82 year old sister-in-law with whom my Mom lived for +15 years, we researched and experiments from memory, and we came up with these!

The filling, more ingredients than most dim sum restaurants: ground pork, lap cheung, dong goo, salted turnip, ha mai, celery, garlic in oyster sauce and sesame oil.
The pastry was glutinous rice flour and a bar of brown sugar dissolved in hot water. The dough was very soft, so next time, we will add a little wheat starch to give it more body. These were deep fried in peanut oil .

 

 

Crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside. Pure bliss!

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Been feeling nostalgic and missing my Mom's cooking, especially during Lunar New Year. She used to make so many "tay" - pastries. One that I loved was the Haam shui Gok. I have never made them before, but between my 82 year old sister-in-law with whom my Mom lived for +15 years, we researched and experiments from memory, and we came up with these!

The filling, more ingredients than most dim sum restaurants: ground pork, lap cheung, dong goo, salted turnip, ha mai, celery, garlic in oyster sauce and sesame oil.
The pastry was glutinous rice flour and a bar of brown sugar dissolved in hot water. The dough was very soft, so next time, we will add a little wheat starch to give it more body. These were deep fried in peanut oil .
More ingredients than found at dim sum restaurant fare:
Ground pork, lap cheung, dong goo, salted turniip. ha mai, garlic, celery, oyster sauce, sesame seed oil

Deep fried crescents

 

Crispy outside, chewy inside. Pure blissful memory of my Mom!

[heidih]

Wow those sound like an experience many of us have not had but would relish. Re-creating taste memories is an interesting aspect of food life. My ex would wax poetic about some dish he adored from the hospital where his mom worked, I tried but eventually we found one of the cooks and sat down with her for a day. It was extraordinary. 

[liuzhou]

What is 'tay'? Neither I or Google has ever heard of it.

[Dejah]

Apologies on the double posts. I had mistakenly placed the post in the Chinese Veg thread, reported it, and asked to have it removed. However, I see it's on here TWICE!🤪
@liuzhou: I noticed your query about what is 'Tay". That's in the Toisanese dialect - village dialect from Guangdong province. Tay is a group of Chinese pastries, some savoury like this Haam Shui Gok, and the sweet ones made for Lunar New Year "Chang Tay" - sesame balls, Fan Sua (similar to har gow except with ground pork, etc)
http://www.hillmanweb.com/soos/seedball.html

[liuzhou]

20 minutes ago, Dejah said:

That's in the Toisanese dialect

 

Thanks. I guessed it was some dialect, but couldn't work out which. I only speak Mandarin and my local dialect.