Recently I discovered that "mandu" is the Korean word for dumpling. In Japanese perhaps you would say I am a "gyoza otaku" or liberally translated: "dumpling eating fiend." Perhaps my last name means the same thing in Korean? These are my first attempt at making the greatest type of dumplings I have yet to encounter, the xiao long bao or Shanghai Soup Dumpling. Inside is a delicious pork filling and piping hot soup - you bite into these over a spoon just in case you spill some soup. This picture is of one on my better ones... ignore the one in the background that burst while steaming and spilled its precious broth everywhere. What a shame!
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