shumai

English

Shumai

Alternative forms

• shao mai, shaomai
• siu mai, siumai, siew mai
• shu mai
• sui maai; shui mai

Etymology

From Cantonese 燒賣／烧卖 (siu1 maai6-2).

Noun

shumai (plural shumai or shumais)

1. A traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum.
   • 2009 May 31, Joanne Starkey, “Old-School Chinese With Efforts at Fusion”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Hot and sour soup, shrimp toast, shumai, General Tso’s chicken, pork with garlic sauce, beef with asparagus, hot and spicy shrimp, sushi deluxe, cheesecake, fried bananas, litchi sherbet.

Translations

a traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燒賣／烧卖 (siu¹ maai^6-2)

  Mandarin: 燒賣／烧卖 (zh) (shāomài)

• Dutch: siew maai, sieuw mai
• French: shaomai
• Indonesian: siomai
• Italian: shumai
• Japanese: 焼売 (ja) (シュウマイ, shūmai)
• Javanese: siomay
• Korean: 사오마이 (saomai), 시우마이 (siumai)
• Mongolian: шумай (šumaj)
• Russian: шумай (šumaj)
• Spanish: shaomai
• Tagalog: siyomay, siomai
• Thai: ขนมจีบ (th) (kà-nǒm-jìip)
• Vietnamese: xíu mại (vi)