I love dumplings and always order them at Asian restaurants and buy them frozen at Asian markets or Trader Joe's. Since today is the Chinese New Year (year of the monkey), and dumplings are traditionally eaten during the new year's celebrations, I decided to try my hand at making them from scratch. As it turns out, they are so easy to make. I searched on-line and found a lot of recipes and demonstrations on YouTube. I settled on a recipe from chinesefood.about.com which is a mixture of ground pork, Napa cabbage, scallions, ginger, soy sauce, Shaohsing rice wine, and toasted sesame oil. I made a dipping sauce of soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil. There's a saying that a Chinese new year without dumplings is like a day without sunshine.
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