燕皮 (yànpí) · meat-paste dumpling wrapper (Fujian specialty)

Measure Word

一张燕皮 zhāng

Meanings

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

About the ingredient

Paper-thin white sheets of lean pork pounded with starch, a Fuzhou specialty sold fresh or dried. Dried sheets are dampened to soften, cut into squares, folded around pork filling and cooked in soup.

Also called 肉燕皮

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

燕皮是用猪肉和薯粉捶打出来的。

Yànpí shì yòng zhūròu hé shǔ fěn chuí dǎchū lái de.

Yanpi is made by pounding pork with sweet-potato starch.

HSK 7-9

福州的肉燕用的是手工燕皮。

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 宴 'banquet'.