Culture shock — the ‘dumpling’
Aside from Neil’s nickname for one of his pals, I’m not getting this British ‘dumpling’. To me, a dumpling is meat wrapped in a dough or pastry skin, then steamed, pan-fried, boiled, or deep-fried. In my Co-op brand snack-size ready meal, their ‘dumplings’ are two lumps of cooked dough.
The difference in the interpretations of dumplings between East and West, I think, is a major stumbling block to world peace. If it wasn’t for
- pizza
- steak
- pâté
- olives
- anchovies
- pies
- pasties
- biscuits
- chocolate ice cream
- Oreos
- Tootsie Rolls
- crisps
I would say food from the West could not hold a candle to the East.
In carnivorous
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Hmmm, maybe you and I should meet up here :)
You have been deprived a little bit. I do like Chinese dumplings but a decent recipe with European style dumplings can be tasty (I would use real chicken stock instead of bullion cubes).
What about Australia’s ‘Dim Sim’? That is truly horrid!
Find an asian mart, they sell the frozen 饺子, doing what you prescribed - steam, fried. Best still, when bite into, squirts soup into your mouth. Hmm hmm!
Hee hee hee. I would defend the dimmie - but I really can’t do it!!
And what exactly are Tootsie Rolls? I’ve never known - they sound delish tho…
Boo, Tootsie Rolls are like chocolate taffy.
Aussie Dim Sims, are just funny shaped fied dumplings and are good! You need to get your chops around a real Aussie Chiko Roll… or fresh baked Sausage Roll (with lashings of tomato sauce)… or Big Ben Meat Pie (with lashings of tomato sauce)… or an Aussie Hamburger complete with beetroot and pineapple…
…I’m hungry now… hey Boss! I’m going on leave to Australia again!
…and I forgot… fresh baked Lamingtons for desert!
Shauna, I HAVE noticed Chop Chop (I pass it on the bus every day), and have thought on more than one occasion that I must check if they really are the dumpling kings!
Terry, the recipe, excepting the milk, sounds good, though not very dumpling-like!
Jerry, we did spot the soup dumplings and other paus at the Asian supermarket, but we have no steamer and we don’t cook, so until we sort out that pesky cooking thing, no real dumplings for us (unless we go to Chop Chop!).
Boo, I discovered the Tootsie Roll in Singapore, if you can believe that. It was only sold in those ‘US’ party decorations-type shops in Centrepoint at the time.
TuTu, I MISS Chiko Rolls (mm mm mm, junk food)! I’m not keen on Lamingtons because I don’t like coconut.
Watch out for them dumplings… chinese ones can poison you…
…and british ones, if cooked like my mum’s and thrown with some accuracy, can knock the crap out of you!
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Aren’t pasties those thinks that strippers put over their nipples? :)
Or are you talking about the Cornish Pasty?
I know what I’d prefer to nibble on…
mmmmm… pastry filled with mush…. mmmmm
Tutu, your long link broke my nice box!
Troy, I definitely mean p-ah-sties (the one with minced meat inside), not p-ay-sties! I like cheese and onion ones the best.
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