Rou yan ('meat swallow') — the Fuzhou specialty wrapper made not from dough but from lean pork pounded with sweet-potato starch into a paper-thin, springy sheet, then used like a wonton skin around a pork filling. Cooked, the all-meat wrapper is silky and bouncy; it is the prize of the Fuzhou soup taiping yan.
Where it comes from
A Fuzhou specialty dating to the Qing, the meat 'swallow' wrapper is pounded from pork hind-leg; wrapped around pork and dropped with eggs into soup it makes taiping yan, an auspicious banquet and festival dish.
In the kitchen
Wrapped around a pork-paste filling into dumplings ('swallows') and simmered in clear broth with quail or duck eggs for the auspicious soup taiping yan.
Nutrition (per 100g)
~200kcalCal
~18.0gProtein
~6.0gFat
~18.0gCarbs
~0.0gFiber
AI-estimated; model and run unavailable.
