6 potato chinese steamed Recipes

purple sweet potato or 1/2 lb orange sweet potato, water or 1 cup milk, sugar (i use 2 tsp for a less sweet bun), yeast, flour, baking powder, salt, lard or 4 tbsp butter

transparent dumpling dough, wheat starch, potato starch, salt, boiling water, lard or veg shortening, bamboo shoots, rinsed and minced, raw shrimp, shelled and deveined, ground pork fat, cornstarch, egg white, oyster sauce, sesame oil, sugar, chinese rice wine or pale dry sherry (optional)

boneless pork loin, dark soy sauce, garlic cloves, pounded flat, cinnamon stick (or cassia bark, if you can get it), whole star anise, chinese shao hsing cooking wine, sesame oil, sweet potatoes , about 1 1/2 lbs, spicy rice powder (found in oriental supermarkets if not available whir 1/2 cup uncooked rice in a blender until the co)

ground lean pork, peeled water chestnuts (or the generous equivalent in canned slices), minced fresh ginger or 1 tsp grated fresh ginger, minced scallions (white and light green part only ), shaoxing wine, salt, sugar, light soy sauce, egg, lightly beaten, cornstarch (potato, water chestnut, sweet rice starch starches may be substituted), bitter melon (green in color and 3/4 to 1 lb in weight. for much larger, nearly ripe melons, it will be necessa), peanut oil, minced garlic, chinese fermented black beans (salted), shaoxing cooking wine, chicken broth, salt, cornstarch, mixed with, cold chicken broth, oriental sesame oil (roasted or dark)