Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal This string hoppers dish, shown here, is prepared with spaghetti-like strings of rice-flour dough, coconut gravy and a choice of onion or coconut spices. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A traditional dim-sum kitchen has six stations: prep; cheung fan (a roll made of a thin sheet of rice-flour batter, steamed and then rolled up into long tubes, often filled with meats); steamers; deep-fryers; filling; and the last, the folding station, where the flour-dough skin of a dim sum dumpling is "folded" over the filling. ❋ Amy Ma (2010)
Samantha Sin for The Wall Street Journal Cheung fan, here at Tim Ho Win, is a thin sheet of rice-flour batter that's steamed, filled and rolled. ❋ Amy Ma (2010)
The next station is where cheung fan, the thin, transparent rice-flour rolls, are made. ❋ Amy Ma (2010)
The telltale sign of a perfect har gao lies in the number of creases along the edge where the rice-flour skin seals together: 12 or more is deemed the work of a master chef. ❋ Amy Ma (2010)
The process is called lai, or pulling: A damp towel is placed over a hot metal surface, a thin layer of rice-flour batter is spread on top, and when the translucent sheet turns opaque -- a signal it is done, which happens within seconds -- the burning-hot cloth must be ripped away from the rice-flour sheet in a quick pulling motion. ❋ Amy Ma (2010)
Subjects taking the soluble fiber psyllium were 44% more likely to report improved symptoms after two months than the group taking a rice-flour placebo, the researchers found. ❋ Unknown (2009)
David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal On the front porch of one butter-yellow bungalow you may find a woman making and selling chai kueh, steamed rice-flour dumplings filled with jicama, carrot and bean sprouts, and served with a tangy tomato-and-chili sauce. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the shadow of Tienmu's giant Mitsukoshi department store, the pastry shop offers homemade dango, chewy rice-flour sweets skewered on a bamboo stick for easy eating. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the front porch of a butter-yellow bungalow we find a woman rolling out disks of rice-flour dough with an old pop bottle for chai kueh, steamed dumplings filled with jicama, carrot and bean sprouts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In initial experiments with yellow cake, the rice-flour mix wouldn't rise, leaving flat, dense and moist matter in the bottom of the pan, Ms. Benson says. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's also banh cuon, rice-flour pancakes stuffed with pork and mushrooms, and pho, the ubiquitous noodle soup. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On offer is a new slew of unfamiliar fresh and prepared foods, including slices of soy-flour "pudding" dressed with chili oil, soy sauce and vinegar and topped with crunchy toasted soybeans, chopped scallions and coriander, and delicious deep-fried rice-flour "doughnuts" dripping with molasses. ❋ Unknown (2009)
David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal And to finish things off, Madam Kwan's cendol (shaved ice, pandan leaf-flavored rice-flour noodles, and red beans doused with coconut milk and palm-sugar syrup) and ABC, or ais batur campur ( "mixed ice," which is shaved ice doused with condensed milk, coconut milk and a flavored syrup, in this case pink-flavored). ❋ Unknown (2009)
For banh xeo, crispy rice-flour and coconut-milk pancakes named for the hiss of batter hitting pan, check out Banh Xeo Muoi Xiem, quaintly decked out in bamboo. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I had fried bananas, crunchy coconut wrapped in a green pancake, red bean paste in a rice-flour dumpling, thin yellow noodles in soup, and about a dozen other things I can't even remember now. ❋ Ceciliatan (2007)
"White rose" dumplings (delicate rice-flour wrappers stuffed with pork), another Hoi An specialty, also are served here. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I just received an e-mail from one of my students wishing me a "Happy Tangyuan Day," explaining how on this day Chinese boil, fry, or steam rice dumplings, which are small rice-flour balls, slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, filled with everything from bean paste to yak meat! ❋ Phil Razem (2008)
At Salcedo, a vendor hailing from the province of Ilocos Sur, best known for the colonial town of Vigan (a Unesco World Heritage site), makes his with rice-flour pastry and a filling of grated green papaya, bean sprouts, ❋ Unknown (2008)
