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Suanla chaoshou is a dish of Szechuan cuisine that consists of a spicy sauce over steamed meat-filled dumplings. Suanla means hot and sour and chaoshou is what these particular large wontons are called in the Chinese province of Sichuan.Chao shou translates literally as folded hands; in Sichuan dialect this refers to a style of dumpling whose square wrapper is folded into two points one crossed over the other.