Mami and her dumplings

I always wanted to eat dumplings, usually sebab terliur akibat tengok program Anthony Bourdain. Sadly for us, kat sini sangat susah nak cari. All this while memang I teringin nak buat, tapi tak berani part nak buat kulit dumpling tu. Some say ada jual kulit dumplings frozen kat Asian market, but tak pernah jumpa pulak. Wantan and popia skin pulak sekarang ni, kat normal foodstore pun dah ada jual.

So setelah tgk Anthony Bourdain makan dumplings kat Manchurian, China, I tekad nak buat dumplings. I was so happy to find this really great website yang ajar buat dumplings step by step, photos included.

Alhamdulillah, I succesfully made a batch of 36 dumplings using 2 cups of flour.

I still need a bit of practise on pleating the dumplings, but I guess I did okay.

Yang ni goreng dalam frying pan.

Yang ni pulak direbus.

Dipping sauce ada tiga jenis, soya sauce with chillies, rice vinegar and soy sauce and sweet thai chili sauce. Probably not very original chinese dipping sauce but bleh lah..hehe.

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The taste? 

Hmmm, ni yang malas skit nak cerita ni..Ish..ish..malu pun ada. Alkisahnya, mamak & mami beli ground meat last week kat grocery store mesjid dekat-dekat sini. Usually at the turkish halal meat counter, they will have three types of ground meat, one mixture of lamb and beef, another just beef and another just lamb. Knowing all these, mamak & mami tanya dua tiga kali kat pakcik daging tu, ni daging lembu ka lamb? Bukan apa, my husband tak lalu makan lamb. Ngabih boreh jo kalau beli lamb. Nasib dia, hidung tinggi sangat, kalau ada lamb sikit pun dia dah bleh bau. Heheh..Pakcik tu dengan semangatnya kata daging lembu, siap kasik discount lagi kat kami sebab dia nak habiskan stock katanya, last week kan public holiday.

So dengan yakin bahawa ground meat yang kitorang beli last week tu beef, semangat lah mami mengelim 36 biji dumplings dengan beef fillings. Bila dah siap serve goreng dan rebus bagai, Mamak pun rasa satu dumplings, terus dia kata, ni bukan lembu ni, ni kambing ni. Terus potong selera you. Kesian pulak kat dia, walaupun tak tahan bau kambin, dia makan jugak, dah rezeki. I pun keciwa jugaklah, sambil makan dumpling tu, mengenangkan pakcik kat mesjid tu. Mulalah pikir benda-benda tak elok, kot-kot dia nak habiskan stock, dia ckp saja benda tu beef. Tapi wallahualam, entah-entah dia silap faham. 

Malu jugak dekat my husband, you know why lah kan? Mostly malu sebab benda ni dah pernah berlaku dulu, that time kitorang nak beli daging ayam belanda kat kedai butcher halal (bukan kat mesjid). Brother tu sungguh-sungguh offer satu daging ni, dah siap packed dalam plastic. I tengok-tengok, pesal bau semacam aja. Terus tgk kat expiry date, dah expired dua tiga hari dah. Astagfirullah. I tunjuk kat brother tu, ni dah expired lah, dia tgk kat packing tu, pastu dia kata tu bukan expiry date, tu date daging tu sampai. Sedangkan sah-sah tertulis kat situ, expiry date. Lagipun busuk dah bau daging tu. I pun tolak offer dia elok-elok, ikutkan hati nak jugak buat drama kat situ atau nak berceramah sikit kat brother tu. Entah mengapa, mulut ni berat nak bersuara, gamaknya memikirkan brother ni seagama, pastu lak jual daging halal. Sekarang ni berat hati dah nak pergi kedai daging tu, sekarang ni pakcik daging kat mesjid pulak.

Ish..ish..ish..cobaan...

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Hmm..apapun, kulit dumpling, texture and taste memang sedap. Next time, I'll make some more with shrimps and 'real' beef..hahaha. Aih..nasib..nasib.