With all of the street food I've been eating I fear I may start to get fat before much longer. A colleague of mine even said my face already shows some signs of added weight. So I figured I should try my hand at some home cooking.
After eating these really delicious rice and chicken filled dumplings in the street shops I decided I'd try making them myself - though I had no recipe.
I made rice, mixed in some fried chicken,
...and used flour and water to make dough and wrappers like I would for regular 饺子.
My kitchen hardware does not include a rack to steam things on, so I had to jerry-rig a steamer by placing some chopsticks in a pot of water and suspending a plate of the dumplings over the boiling water. In the process of steaming, the water in the pot completely evaporated and the chopsticks got a little charred - fortunately I wasn't using any of the chopsticks I brought with me, only the ones left over by the last tenant.The dumplings I made weren't like the ones on the street, for one thing the dough I used resulted in a thick cover - also the filling I used did not have as much sauce, so the taste wasn't as strong. Good news was I could eat the filling with or without being steamed (or boiled as I later tried) in a wrap of dough.
