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I love chinese dumplings. I don’t know how to cook this but I vow to learn so I can eat to my heart’s content!
Here’s the recipe I found over at Yummy Food:
Ingredients:
1/2 kg (1Lb) pork mince (ground pork)
1/2 Kg (1 LB) Shredded Chinese cabbage
200g (1/2 Lb) Dumpling pastry ( check your local oriental grocery for this)
Sauce: *
8 Tbsp Soy sauce
1 Tspb Rice Vinegar
2 tsp Sesame oil
* You may change proportions according to your taste.
Directions
Step: 1 Mix pork mince and Chinese cabbage together and wrap with dumpling pastry. Boil for 15 minutes.
Step: 2 Mix sauce ingredients to make …read more

The new Uncle Yip’s location on Reading Road in Evendale is now open. This was their old place from a few years back, but now they’re occupying the adjacent space as well, doubling the dining area. They are also very pleased that this location has more windows, and therefore more natural light, by the diner’s tables. It looks like they’ve upgraded their lazy susans as well. Everything is bright and clean, with a red wall adding a much needed splash of color. The friendly and accommodating customer service has not changed at all. It’s also …read more

This is a continuation of Part 1, where I showed you how to make dumpling wrappers using a pasta machine. The technique shown in this post is more rustic, but works just as well.

Mix dough ingredients in a bowl or food processor. Flour a platter or line with wax paper. Knead dough lightly on floured surface until elastic, then divide into 80 pieces or so, each about the size of a regular gumball.

Roll out each piece into a round about 3 inches in diameter.

Follow instructions for filling and pleating the dumplings in Part 1.

Now that they’re cooked, there’s nothing …read more

I was recently looking through the archives and found that one of my posts got cut off while migrating over from About Weblogs. Since I was making jiaozi the other day, I thought I’d repost the whole article here, including updated pictures, to show you two different ways of making the dumpling wrapper.

This recipe is from the book Mrs. Chiang’s Szechwan Cookbook, a favorite of mine for many years. I know the Chinese are very particular about how to make this recipe, and some recipes for jiaozi specify how to stir the filling, what to add first, etc. …read more

Right across the street from the area’s oldest Asian grocer, Jay International, is Wei Hong Bakery. It has been open for several years and has garnered quite a following. Unpretentious and so accessible, being right smack dab on one of the busiest portions of Grand Boulevard. You’ll have to park across the street, though, and it will serve you well to press that pedestrian button, as traffic can be heavy especially on weekends and those drivers won’t slow down for anything but a red light.
Wei Hong is closed on Tuesdays, but the rest of the week you …read more

I’ve been perusing my dim sum books lately because I’m looking for stuff that does *not* contain wheat or eggs (as to be expected, there isn’t a lot, save for bean-curd wrapped things and little meat dishes)…. I will have to rework many of the recipes to come close to something that my allergic family members can have… but I’m starting to despair of ever finding anything that will resemble real char xiu bao or soup dumplings. Sigh… going through these just awakens more cravings… so much that I think I’ll do a few recipes in the near …read more

Don’t know why, I’ve been in a dim sum mood lately. There are only a few places in Cincinnati that serve dim sum. Quite surprising given that there are a lot of Chinese in the area. There are, of course, over a hundred “Chinese restaurants”, but only these serve dim sum on a regular basis.
Uncle Yip’s Fusion Cuisine/Seafood
7275 Dixie Hwy # A
Fairfield, OH 45014
(513) 942-6512
11:00a.m. – 10:00p.m.Monday – Thursday; 11:00a.m. – 11:00p.m.Friday – Saturday; 11:00a.m. – 9:30p.m.Sunday
Pacific Moon Cafe
8300 Market Place Ln
Cincinnati, OH 45242
(513) 891-0091
11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
Grand Oriental Buffet
4800 Fields Ertel Road
Cincinnati, …read more

My 4-year-old and I have been enjoying this book. Over and over and over and over….
Needless to say, we both love dim sum. And this is a cute read for before or after a trip to a dim sum house.

Do you have a favorite dim sum place where you are? What’s the one dim sum dish you would have if you could have only one?

This recipe is for Ruth, who requested Filipino buchi. Ruth, there are variations to this; what I’m giving you right now is the simplest one with the shortest ingredient list.