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Yank Sing's Chan family has spent generations honing the recipe for success
Carol Ness, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
In a bright, white room behind Yank Sing's steamy, sizzling main kitchen, a dozen cooks at long butcher-block tables quietly roll and flatten, tuck and pleat, all day long.
Three or four quick swipes with the side of a cleaver flatten a ball of white dough into a perfectly round, thin skin. Another pair of hands folds the skin around a filling of shrimp, pork, mushrooms, creating dozens of different kinds of dumplings, some in the shape of tiny goldfish and bunnies.
Faster than the eye can follow, but with no air of hurry, these small motions create piece after piece of har gow,, siu mai, Shanghai dumplings and pork buns. One woman wraps 360 potstickers an hour -- one every 10 seconds. The total dumplings and buns produced on a busy weekend day: 10,000 pieces of dim sum.
Yank Sing's Chan family has spent generations honing the recipe for success
Carol Ness, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
In a bright, white room behind Yank Sing's steamy, sizzling main kitchen, a dozen cooks at long butcher-block tables quietly roll and flatten, tuck and pleat, all day long.
Three or four quick swipes with the side of a cleaver flatten a ball of white dough into a perfectly round, thin skin. Another pair of hands folds the skin around a filling of shrimp, pork, mushrooms, creating dozens of different kinds of dumplings, some in the shape of tiny goldfish and bunnies.
Faster than the eye can follow, but with no air of hurry, these small motions create piece after piece of har gow,, siu mai, Shanghai dumplings and pork buns. One woman wraps 360 potstickers an hour -- one every 10 seconds. The total dumplings and buns produced on a busy weekend day: 10,000 pieces of dim sum.