Draft:Chinese lettuce wraps

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Chinese lettuce wraps

San Choy Bow served in lettuce cups
Alternative names	San Choy Bow; San Choi Bao; San Choy Bau; Sang Choy Bao; Lettuce Wraps
Course	Entrée
Place of origin	China
Region or state	Guangdong
Serving temperature	Warm
Main ingredients	Minced meat, lettuce, vegetables
Variations	Vegetarian, vegan, chicken, seafood
Chinese name
Chinese	生菜包
Hanyu Pinyin	shēngcài bāo
Literal meaning	"lettuce wrap"
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin shēngcài bāo Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization sāang choy bāau Jyutping saang1 coi3 baau1

Chinese lettuce wraps, also known as San Choy Bow, are dishes in Chinese cuisine where a filling is wrapped in lettuce. Common varieties include seasoned ground pork wrapped in a lettuce leaf. The fillings often include vegetables such as chillies, spring onions, coriander, water chestnuts, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and are seasoned with various sauces. Vegan variations also exist.

The dish originated in Guangdong province, China, where it is a customary form of communal eating associated with regional folk festivals. Due to the Chinese diaspora, the dish has also been spread to other countries such as the United States and Australia around the mid-to-late 20th century, where it is served as part of Westernized adaptations of Chinese cuisine.

Etymology

The dish derives its name from the Cantonese 生菜包, meaning "wrapped in lettuce" or "lettuce wrap", and is romanised as San Choy Bow (Cantonese pronunciation: [sɑːŋ t͡sʰɔɪ paʊ]).

In Australia, the dish is most commonly known as San Choy Bow^[1] with English spelling variations including "Sang Choy Bao", "San Choi Bau", "San Choi Bao", and "San Choy Bau".^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} In the United States, the name San Choy Bow was used by Cantonese restaurants by the 1980s, but Chinese-American restaurant chain P.F. Chang's popularized the term lettuce wrap in the 1990s. The term has since become the most mainstream name in the US.^[10]

Cultural roots & global adaptations

Ingredients and preparation

There are multiple variations of the recipes, including vegan versions and gluten free.^[20] But typically, San Choy Bow includes:

• Minced meat (traditionally pork)
• Lettuce leaves (Traditional uses iceberg lettuce but butter lettuce can be used)^[21]
• Water chestnuts
• Mushrooms
• Spring onions
• Grated ginger and garlic
• Soy sauce
• Sesame oil
• Lime
• Carrots
• Bamboo shoots
• Additional seasonings, which may include hoisin sauce or white pepper

The filling mixture is typically stir-fried and is served hot, with lettuce leaves provided separately for wrapping.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Variations

There are considerable flexibility in the choice of fillings. Vegetarian or vegan adaptations can replace meat with ingredients such as tofu, mushrooms or even plant based mince.^[26][27][28]

Other variations outside of traditional pork, can include salmon^[29], prawns ^[30][31], chicken, pigeons, ducks, turkey, beef or even kangaroo and wallaby.^{[32][33][34][35][36]}

There is also a low FODMAP version.^[37]

Gallery

See also

• Lettuce sandwich
• Ssam

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mapo doufu.

Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on

• Mapo Tofu

• Erway, Cathy (2020-02-05). "Mapo Tofu's Fiery Path to World Domination". Saveur. - Copy at Getpocket