Questions 3: Yes, We’re Still on Dumplings

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

I really hope people are enjoying this silly topic and possibly learning a bit.  Let’s just jump to the questions about dumplings.

  1. What is your favorite type of dumpling? (I LOVE fried pork dumplings from Chinatown.)
  2. What kind of dumpling (real or your own creation) would you love to make? (One that has a chocolate covered strawberry in the center.)
  3. Do you think it’s strange that dumplings are found throughout the world?

About Charles Yallowitz

Charles E. Yallowitz was born, raised, and educated in New York. Then he spent a few years in Florida, realized his fear of alligators, and moved back to the Empire State. When he isn't working hard on his epic fantasy stories, Charles can be found cooking or going on whatever adventure his son has planned for the day. 'Legends of Windemere' is his first series, but it certainly won't be his last.
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25 Responses to Questions 3: Yes, We’re Still on Dumplings

  1. Darlene says:
    June 14, 2024 at 10:29 am
    1. My favourite type of dumpling is perogy. Dim Sum is my second favourite.

    2. I would love to make perogies as good as my mom’s.

    3. I don’t think it’s strange, I think it proves that we are all more alike than we tend to believe.

    PS I love this topic.

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  2. Obaid Safdar Khan says:
    June 14, 2024 at 10:44 am

    thanks for sharing nice post

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  3. L. Marie says:
    June 14, 2024 at 10:55 am
    1. Love the fried pork dumplings and soup dumplings (from Chinatown).
    2. I made pot stickers with a group of people. They took a while, but were good.
    3. I don’t think it’s strange. They seem a way of stretching a little bit of meat to make something nourishing.

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  4. noelleg44 says:
    June 14, 2024 at 11:33 am

    I love perogies – but then, I’m part Polish. And also the fired pork dumplings. Yum

    The Czechs make wonderful fruit dumplings with plums in the middle, served with powered sugar.

    I don’t think it’s strange. It probably began as a way to stretch flour (or potato) resources.

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  5. John W. Howell says:
    June 14, 2024 at 11:54 am
    1. My favorite is chicken and veggie pot stickers
    2. I’d love to make an old fashioned doughy dumpling in chicken broth.
    3. World wide dumplings seem logical due to the availability of various forms of flower and protean.

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  6. DebyFredericks says:
    June 14, 2024 at 5:42 pm
    1. What is your favorite type of dumpling? I like steamed buns, but also apple or berry turnovers.
    2. What kind of dumpling (real or your own creation) would you love to make? I have made berry turnovers before and it was fun.
    3. Do you think it’s strange that dumplings are found throughout the world? Not really. It shows that people know a good idea when they see one.

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    • Charles Yallowitz says:
      June 14, 2024 at 6:57 pm

      Never thought of turnovers as dumplings, but I can see it. Could really go for a steam bun right now. As for as #3, the strange thing is that dumplings may have appeared around the world without some cultures having seen them. The concept just appeared in the human consciousness.

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  7. Oloriel says:
    June 14, 2024 at 5:51 pm

    Its really nice to be able to read people’s answers, because I do not like dumplings whatsoever, at least not the googlable results that I’m getting. I do adore what I would call ‘semolina dumplings’ (original word in Serbian is ‘knedle’, and literal translation says it is ‘dumplings’, but the problem lies in the fact that there is an I believe Austrian pastry of the same name, that is with fruit) in home-made soup, that is broth like. Another reason why I find it hard to consider them dumplings is that the good ones they just fall apart in your mouth and are very soft, while I tried ‘the dumplings’ and could not eat even one at all :/

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  8. coldhandboyack says:
    June 15, 2024 at 8:37 am

    My favorites might be gyoza, because of a Japanese aunt. I’m not too picky when it comes to dumplings. I don’t think global dumplings are any more strange than everyone inventing dough around the world. The idea of grinding cereal grains into flour seems like it would be a unique idea, but it wasn’t.

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  9. V.M.Sang says:
    June 16, 2024 at 5:46 am
    1. My favourite dumplings are the ones I mentioned previously. Suet dumplings with mixed herbs. But I also like what my gran called apple dumpling. This was suet pastry lining a basin and filled with sliced apple. It was then topped with a lid of suet pastry, covered with a cloth (muslin for preference) or aluminium foil, and steamed. She then served it with a sweet white sauce.
    2. I think I could go with yours , Charles. Anything with chocolate is good, by definition.
    3. I don’t think it’s strange at all to find dumplings all over the world. They are an easily prepared high energy food that is excellent when one has been working in the fields all day.

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