燕皮

yànpí
noun

Measure Word

一张燕皮 zhāng

Meanings

  1. 1 meat-paste dumpling wrapper (Fujian specialty)
  2. 2 lit. swallow skin

Examples

Yànpí shì yòng zhūròu hé shǔfěn chuídǎ chūlái de.
Yanpi is made by pounding pork with sweet-potato starch.
Fúzhōu de ròuyàn yòng de shì shǒugōng yànpí.
Fuzhou's rouyan is made with hand-pounded yanpi wrappers.

Tips

culture
A Fuzhou (福州) specialty. Lean pork is beaten with sweet-potato starch into a translucent sheet that wraps pork filling to make 肉燕 (rouyan), a soup dumpling eaten at weddings and New Year for its homophone with 'banquet'.

Stroke Order

yàn