Why Chinese Eat Dumplings Jiaozi during Winter Solstice • Lunar New Year Day • Fifth Day of Chinese New Year

Chinese celebrate Winter Solstice (21 or 22 Dec) with glutinous rice balls and dumplings.

The glutinous rice ball, Winter Solstice custom go back over 1000 years. I have an article on its origin here 👈

The custom of eating dumplings during Winter Solstice go even further back by a few centuries. How did the dumpling custom come about and why are Chinese dumplings or jiao zi 饺子 shaped like ears?

Lucky Her Kiao📍88 Horne Road • Third Generation Song Kee Hand Made Fish Dumpling & Ball ☏ 9830 1661

Lucky Her Kiao📍88 Horne Rd, Singapore 209083 🚅 10 minutes walk from Lavender & Bendemeer stations ☏ 9830 1661 ⏰ 11am - 6pm (Weds off)

James Chua, third generation of Song Kee.

I am a long time fan of Song Kee and grew up with their fish balls and fish dumplings (her kiao 魚餃). Song Kee is today, one of the top fish ball brands in Singapore and still among my favourites.

I don't say this lightly. It's literally my hawker dish growing up - let me explain. Put another way, I am one of the oldest Song Kee fan around 🤭

History of Momo • Soul Food of Bhutan

When you are in Bhutan, you may be forgiven if you thought that momo could be the country's national dish 🤭

Haa Valley Bhutan Buckwheat Momo • Hoentey • Dumplings📍Kuenphen Restaurant ☎️ +975-17889641 ☎️ +975-77307753

Ema datsi or chili cheese is the national dish (and best known Bhutanese dish to foreigners). Chili cheese is a side dish in most Bhutanese meals while momo, a dumpling dish less known outside Bhutan has a strong presence in the country as a staple dish. The dumpling dish is widely popular and momo joints are everywhere in Bhutan (in the same way chicken rice is ubiquitous in Singapore).

Dumplings RU • One & Only Russian Restaurant in Singapore • Menu & Review CLOSED

CLOSED Today, I joined the Russians in indulging in their comfort food and vodka in the only Russian restaurant in Singapore.

Cheap & Good Dumplings at Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine📍"Little Fuzhou" Manhattan Chinatown NYC New York

Eldridge Street in NYC Manhattan's Chinatown is also known among locals as Fuzhou Street 2. (East Broadway Street is Fuzhou Street 1.)

Fuzhou people arrived in New York from around the 1990s and brought with them cuisine such as Fuzhou fish balls, dumplings and hand-pulled noodles.