Siu Mai (Pork & Prawn Dumplings)

Siu Mai dominates dim sum carts as the most ordered dish, with a coarsely ground pork and whole prawn filling encased in a gossamer yellow wonton skin, this open-topped dumpling weighs 25% less than Xiaolongbao but achieves a higher filling-to-wrapper ratio of 4:1, making it the benchmark for kitchen quality control across 90% of dim sum houses.