Siwawa
A Siwawa (Chinese: 丝娃娃; pinyin: sī wá wá, also known as "Guiyang Spring rolls"[1][2] or "silk doll") is a Chinese dish, native to and a local specialty of the Guizhou province, consisting of a paper thin glutinous rice pancake that is small enough to fit easily in one's palm, and is wrapped around fillings of julienned fresh, fermented, or stir-fried vegetables such as shredded cucumber, pickled turnip, fried soybeans, crushed chilis, shredded kelp, shredded potato, pickled radish, mung bean sprouts, zhe ergen, pickled fiddleheads, and jueba bracken fern roots.[3][4][5][6][7] Some vendors include fried pork (Cuishao/脆哨) as a filling.[7] The dish traditionally is a common street food or hawker food but eventually started to appear at events such as weddings.[4] It is one of the most well-known of Guizhou's traditional snack foods but is also eaten as a formal meal.[6][7]
Spicy and sour-flavoured sauces, known as zhanshui, are commonly incorporated into wraps or used as dipping sauces. One popular sauce recipe includes a combination of ingredients such as stock, dried chili flakes, and sesame oil.[3][6]
The name of the dish, "baby in swaddling clothes," is derived from its appearance, where strips of ingredients are wrapped in a rice pancake, resembling a wrapped infant.[5][3][4][6] It also resembles an uncooked egg roll and is sometime considered "a member of the spring roll family".[5][7]
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- ^ "Discover the Surprising Diversity of Spring Rolls Around China". The World of Chinese. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
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- ^ a b c "Siwawa (Silk Doll)". China Daily. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ a b c Leffman, David; Lewis, Simon; Zatko, Martin (2013-11-14). The Rough Guide to China. Rough Guides UK. ISBN 978-1-4093-5179-5.
- ^ a b c d "The sour and spicy splendor of Guizhou food". SHINE. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ a b c d 美食台 | 貴州的神奇娃娃,人人都想咬一口!, June 2019, retrieved 2023-01-25