[Sca-cooks] OP food question

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Sounds like Nor My Gai, Rice in Lotus Leaf to me.
It's a Dim Sum standard.

Here are some recipes online:
http://www.allbaking.net/ch/1999/june/dimsum3.html
http://www.foodtv.ca/recipes/recipedetails/recipe_122.asp

They look a little complicated, but basically it's just a
re-constituted dry leaf wrapping up nice sticky rice
with "stuff" in the center.  Could be any old stuff
really, ask your bro what he likes.  Shrimp and
Chinese sausage are pretty standard.

If he's really just getting back on solid foods,
I would make these really small at first,
not the more usual grapefruit-size.
Or even just serve the rice with the
meatstuff in a bowl so he can nibble
at will.

Selene Colfox
selene at earthlink.net


AEllin Olafs dotter wrote:

> Modern Chinese food, actually - my brother was talking about something.
> He said it is glutinous rice, mixed with chopped meat (sometimes
> vegetables?) wrapped in a leaf, and steamed. Can't remember the name,
> and he may be asking me to pick it up for him.
>
> He's been ill, in the hospital for a couple of months with severe
> pancreatitis, and unable to eat. He's turned a corner and they're
> starting to wean him back onto real food... and would be perfectly happy
> with him eating just about anything, now, if he can keep it down. This
> wouldn't be right away but anything he finds appealing helps, and he
> thinks this would go down well. He'd know it if he saw it, but I might
> be picking this up for him, and would need to know what to ask for. (He
> can tell me roughly where to get it.)
>
> Suggestions?
>
> AEllin