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挑战#28:Do you know your Wontons? (Food Quiz)


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Identify the 7 wonton dishes in the attached picture.

Because wonton dishes are pretty much available everywhere with various names describing them, below are some points to keep in mind to get the answers that I am looking for:

1. The wonton dishes I've included are typical of what you might find in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Chengdu. Three are from Shanghai, three are from Hong Kong and one is from Chengdu.

2. The names of the dishes are how they might be called in those regions.

3. I've kept everything in simplified characters so that should not be a factor distinguishing the names.

4. The number of characters in the answers are in order:

1.(5)

2.(4)

3.(5)

4.(4)

5.(6)

6.(3)

7.(7)

5. The out of order characters are provided below. Be careful, there are unused characters.

饨 红 煎 菜 酱 馄

肉 虾 饨 辣 鲜 吞

馄 荠 油 馄 手 鲜

云 肉 鲜 炸 小

油 饨 抄 云 面

虾 捞 大 鲜 饨

吞 面 云 馄 吞

6. For those of you who have either not tried wontons from these places or are having trouble coming up with the names, I've provided some more hints below. They don't tell you everything, but should give you enough information for you to come up with some answers.

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Image sources: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 (Obviously, don't click on these if you don't want the answers revealed.)

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feihong

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@jkhsu: I'm at a loss to see how a non-expert like myself can solve this without the aid of search engines. I can get two (I think), and that's pretty much it. The pictures by themselves don't lend enough context for me to guess the rest. Could you give me a hint? Otherwise it's off to the search engines I go.

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jkhsu

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@feihong: Thanks for user-testing this! Try these hints out and see what you get. I'll give you more then.

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jkhsu

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I've updated the challenge with the exact number of characters for the answers in order.

jkhsu

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@feihong: I made a mistake on my hint #1. I've made the change.

feihong

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@jkhsu: Thanks for hints. But... it still seems impossible.

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I guess I'll just use a search engine, but I'll wait before I submit an answer in case a wonton expert comes along.

jkhsu

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@feihong: I was afraid this was going to be like the Toy Story one where you can't figure it out unless you've watched the movie. I'd like to make it more accessible without giving away the entire answer. I've added a hint section to the 挑战 that should help. Let me know if you think those are enough hints for someone to reasonably come up with some answers through process of elimination.

feihong

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I tried doing it using just your hints, but I only got sorta close with 3. Even after I started googling the names, it still took me a long time.

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jkhsu

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@feihong:

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jbradfor

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My answers. I know a couple are wrong, especially after looking at feihong's. I just think this is too hard to get everyone correct by guessing. [i used your hint, but only to get the geography of each.]

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BTW, is there a typo in the question?

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jkhsu

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@jbradfor: Thanks for trying this out. I'll remember to give appropriate clues in future quizes. Also, there's no typo in the question.

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feihong

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@jkhsu: Last attempt. I updated my answer.

jkhsu

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@feihong: You got it! If it makes you feel any better, I didn't know all this stuff until I did some research on it for this quiz. It wasn't until I tried out #2 (for the first time) in a restaurant just last week that I thought it would be a good idea to do a wonton quiz.

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Gleaves

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I had no idea wontons had so many names in different regions. Pretty interesting. I've actually started paying attention to the names of things when I go to restaurants because of these quizzes.

jbradfor

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Since we're on the topic on won tons.....

Back when I lived in the Bay Area we often went to this little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the Sunset district called Won Ton House. Small, greasy, questionable sanitation, but man did they have the best 鲜虾云吞面 I‘ve had outside Hong Kong. I see they're still in business, no idea if they are any good, but @jkhsu since I believe you said you're in SF, if you're in the area give them a try and let me know if they are still any good.

jkhsu

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@Gleaves: Yeah, there are even more ways to say wontons like 扁食/扁肉 in Fujian. This link below has a good description if you care to read more:

http://baike.baidu.com/view/11089.htm

@jbradfor: Thanks for the rec on the restaurant. Next time I'm in that part of town, I'll try it out and let you know. Though I have to admit, 鲜虾云吞面 is so common here that I am not sure I can spot the difference between a good one and a really good one (but I'll give it a shot). The bad ones can't survive here. BTW, I just gave you a point for trying out the quiz. It's interesting to see how you thought about 油菜 and 芥菜 from your knowledge of Cantonese cuisine I presume.

jbradfor

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Though I have to admit, 鲜虾云吞面 is so common here that I am not sure I can spot the difference between a good one and a really good one (but I'll give it a shot).

A lot of it, for me at least, is the noodles. Good 云吞 are not that hard to make (the skin can be tricky, but it seems a lot of people have that figured out), but to me the noodles left a lot to be desired at most places.

Aaron MH

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I really enjoyed this quiz. The Chengdu wonton was quite obvious and after not being able to wait longer checked the answers and agreed in my mind that the OP got all the regions correct. lol :)

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