Special Homecooked Foods

Food Photos by MJ Klein

Hui-chen and I are off in China and Hong Kong on business for a few days.  We’ll be back soon with some great photos and stories to tell!  In the meantime we’d like to show you some dishes that Hui-chen’s mother cooked during Chinese New Year.

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By now, everyone knows that these are the family specialty.   Hui-chen makes her own version too ^[2], and they are great.

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We came back home one afternoon and saw that Ma had put the 2 pans out to cool in the breeze of a fan.  She was cooking down the wok and also the meatballs.

Later though, she had this little trick up her sleeve:

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Now, imagine if you will, the richest, most flavorful dumpling meat stuffing you’ve ever had.
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Then, imagine if you can, that someone beat eggs and fried them up into a thin crepe that was cut into skins.

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And then someone would stuff those egg skins and fry them in the wok.

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If you can imagine that, then you know what you are looking at!  I couldn’t believe it, but these were like mini omelet-burritos with dumpling meat inside.  Lemme tell you – when these puppies hit the dinner table they weren’t the only things that were stuffed!

I  can’t wait to go back for more!