Gold-Leaf Dim Sum Banquet
$45,000 play money
Every dumpling on the trolley, each one topped with gold. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $45,000 in play money, which puts it in the Ultra tier ($2,000 and up). It is one of the few dishes that can use up a large part of the budget in one click.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- Chinese
- Menu section
- Chinese
- Price tier
- Ultra ($2,000 and up)
- Play-money price
- $45,000
- Main ingredients
- dozens of steamed dishes, gold leaf
- How it is served
- A huge round banquet table covered in stacked bamboo steamers, dumplings topped with gold leaf
History, tradition and origin
Wrapping a filling in dough is a shared idea across Asia and Eastern Europe. In northern China, families fold dumplings together at new year because their shape recalls old silver ingots. Cantonese tea houses turned small steamed dishes into a morning ritual. Soup-filled dumplings come from the Shanghai region, and pan-fried ones reached Japan in the twentieth century.
Food economy and industry
Tea house dumplings are still largely made by hand, and a skilled cook pleats thousands a day. Frozen dumplings are one of the biggest prepared-food categories in East Asia, produced by automated lines and exported widely. Wheat flour, pork, cabbage and shrimp are the main inputs, and prices follow the pork market closely.
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