Thanksgiving is special and we got to eat all kinds of delicious food. Mama made traditional Chinese food, baked ribs, eggplant fish, celery shrimp, green vegetables. Liwei added her special stir fried hot and sour potato threads, especially DRY.
When Mama accompanied Liwei for a special trip, bride dress shopping on the second day after Thanksgiving, Xijie made his special beef stew noodles. It was the best noodle in the world. He made it!
On Sunday, Liwei showed off her second specialty, making Tianjin dumplings. She was in charge of the main parts, making the fillings and the dumpling skin. Rijad was in charge of dumpling dough. Li Cao and Xijie was in charge of wrapping the fillings inside the dumpling skin. Mama was in charge of boiling the dumplings. I was in charge of tasting the dumpling and make sure every single one taste good. Ok, maybe not every single one.
This was the most complicated fillings I have ever seen. Let's check the ingredients, ground pork, raw egg, wood ear, napa, chive, shrimp, stir fried egg, ginger, sesame oil, salt, cooking wine, etc. They are all essential to make the most delicious dumplings in the world.
You might wonder why there was no dumplings in the pictures. Care for a guess?
Yes, they were in our stomach once they came out of the pot!
