Main ingredients 🥩
ground porkshrimpnapa cabbageshiitake mushroombamboo shootgreen onionminced garlicoyster saucerice flourstarch powderstar anisesoy sauce
Park Eun-young's Food of the Gods (Pork Transformation Rice Cake)
A perfectly recreated mysterious dish from the anime Spirited Away, featuring chewy and transparent Taiwanese-style bawan.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ Those who watched Spirited Away and always wanted to taste the mysterious food their father enjoyed
- ⭐ Fans seeking an intense chewy, transparent dumpling experience similar to dim sum or tapioca-based dishes
Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings
- ground pork 150g
- peeled shrimp 100g
- napa cabbage leaves 4 pieces
- shiitake mushrooms 2 pieces
- bamboo shoots a little
- green onion 1/2 stalk
- minced garlic 1 tablespoon
- oyster sauce 1 tablespoon
- rice flour 50g
- starch powder 150g
- star anise 1 piece
- soy sauce 2 tablespoons
- sugar 0.5 tablespoon
Recipe 🍳
- Sauté minced shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, green onions, and garlic together with ground pork and shrimp until fragrant, then add oyster sauce to create a savory dumpling filling.
- Place the cooked filling generously onto blanched, soft napa cabbage leaves and roll them tightly, securing firmly.
- Mix rice flour and starch powder, then gradually add hot water while kneading until you achieve a smooth, stretchy, transparent dough.
- Wrap the cabbage-wrapped filling completely in the starch dough, then use scissors to create distinctive wing-like wrinkles on the surface for a signature shape.
- Steam or deep-fry the finished dough, then prepare a special sauce by simmering soy sauce with green onions, garlic, and star anise, thickening it with a slurry of starch, and generously drizzle over the dish.
- Sauté pork, shrimp, and vegetables with oyster sauce to make the filling.
- Roll the filling in blanched napa cabbage leaves.
- Make a chewy dough using rice flour and starch powder.
- Wrap the cabbage-wrapped filling in the dough and create signature wrinkles with scissors.
- Steam or fry to preference, then serve with star anise soy sauce.
Cooking tips 💡
- For a more transparent, bouncy texture resembling the animated version, increase the starch ratio in the dough and steam it—this will give a glossy, springy finish.
- When making the soy sauce, always include star anise as a key ingredient to bring out the distinct, rich, and exotic umami flavor characteristic of Chinese cuisine.
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