Cantonese · rice
Cheung Fun (Rice Noodle Roll)
肠粉 · Chángfěn
Translucent rice-flour roll filled with shrimp, beef or BBQ pork. Served with sweet soy sauce.
Cheung fun are wide, soft sheets of steamed rice-flour batter, rolled around a filling and cut into 3–4 pieces. The fillings: shrimp (xia), beef (niu), char siu (cha siu), or no filling (jai). Served with a sweet soy sauce, sometimes with chilli oil and sesame paste. The texture is silky and almost custard-like.
Where to try
Yum cha houses; also as morning street food in Guangzhou.
Dietary notes
Rice (gluten-free). Soy. Filling-specific.
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