The Making of Chinese Dumpling

Was suppose to post this before the dumpling festival, but... haih, same old word... LAZY lo

I see my mom make dumpling every year, sometimes I did help up, but every time when I failed, I will give up. The dumpling is really not easy to make, especially the final wrap up step. Chinese has this special festival and wonderful food - dumpling, I know I need to learn how to make this one day, because I don't want this wonderful food disappear in our Chinese society (not many people know how to make dumpling nowadays).

So this year, I have decided to help my mom again.

Ingredients Preparation
1 day before...

My mom usually will book the pork few days before.
And the pork must have a very good proportion of fat and lean meat. Believe me, forget about your slimming program, it taste really good.

Marinate the pork with:
Onion and garlic (pounded)
Rice wine and Shaoxing wine
5 spices powder
Oyster sauce
Thick soya sauce

Marinate the pork overnight and at the same time, soak the dumpling leaves and strings.

Other ingredients:
Fried dried, shelled shrimps
Stir-fried marinated pork
Fried glutinous rice with red bean (+ some salt)
Boiled mushroom
Salted egg yoke
Dried scallop
Chestnut

Started wrapping/making the dumpling
Take 2 piece of leaves, folded to a funnel shape, step by step fill in the ingredient
1. put a little bit of rice at the bottom
2. put all other ingredient in the middle
3. cover with rice again

Tada, yeah! I did it! Although my dumpling is slightly smaller than my mom one.
I also do not understand, my mom's hands are smaller than mine, how come her dumpling is bigger than mine?

Boiled the dumpling in salted water for 4 hours...

See, my dumpling looks so yummy

I didn't press hard enough, that's why the rice was a bit loose.
Can you see the whitish part in between the dumpling? It was the pork, so tender and juicy
yum~ the best part of a dumpling.

For those who have digestion problem, better don't take so much dumpling at a time. After all the dumplings were done, I took 2 and after that, I suffered stomach pain... indigestion lo... haih, my body likes old lady...