How to say “Shrimp dumpling (har gow)” in Cantonese
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haa1 gaau2 · Shrimp dumpling (har gow)
Whole shrimp wrapped in a thin, translucent wheat-starch skin and steamed. One of the dishes almost every table orders at dim sum.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.