Besides, you avoid biting into a chunky piece of dough, as can happen when the dumpling is ball-shape.

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Using my teeth, I would carefully tear off the top of my first dumpling and watch the steam rise.

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Made with collagen-rich pig skin, it is solid at low temperatures but melts into liquid when the dumpling is steamed.

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With each successful dumpling or stir fry, I felt the rush of having conquered something while also learning essential stories of my past.

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"It's the perfect bite, very dumpling-esque, " Mr. White said.

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"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing, " he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.

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On June 18, locals celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival, a national holiday that is marked by races on the Keelung River and by eating jungtzu, a steamed dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice and other goodies.

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Determined to master xiao long bao at home, I quizzed dumpling makers in Shanghai and Nanxiang, checked my notes on visits to the Taipei headquarters of Din Tai Fung and rifled through a multitude of cookbooks.

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No doubt, he had come along the first time out of curiosity, because bell ringing struck him as quaint and Olde Worlde, like warm beer or clootie dumpling, and thus one of the experiences it would be a shame to miss while he was over here.

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