Move over peanuts, pistachio is the latest trend for Hong Kong dumplings


Customers waiting outside Kwan Hong Bakery to purchase New Year treats in Hong Kong. - AP

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong culinary institution is acknowledging that changing times bring changing tastes and has found a hit in adding American pistachios to the range of flavours in its famed dumplings.

The Kwan Hong Bakery last year began offering the new flavour alongside the traditional peanut and red bean fillings that are the heart of the sweet, deep-fried pastry, which is hand-filled and folded like the wide range of sweet and savoury dumplings known in the local dialect as "kok zai.”

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