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Interestingly enough, especially in the midst of Chinese New Year, we hit China on our journey around the world. I decided to tackle Chinese dumplings (known as jiaozi) since they're a traditional New Year dish. Happy Year of the Monkey! About a year ago, we were invited to dinner at our neighbors' house. They are a wonderful couple from Shanghai. They taught us the art of dumpling making. It was delightful if not time consuming. For our country night, I decided to brush out my notes from that dinner and the results were delicious. I used pre-made dumpling wrappers so I guess that's cheating. Oh well. Pork Dumplings Ingredients 1 and a half packages of dumpling wrappers 1 cup ground pork 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp rice wine 3 tbsp sesame oil 3 green onions chopped 1 1/2 cups of shredded napa cabbage 1 tbsp minced fresh ginger 2 garlic cloves minced Preparation Mix all the ingredients for the filling. Place 1.5 tsp of filling in each wrapper. Using a to...