Making dumplings

On Wednesday, June 24th we met up at Julias to make dumplings. Julia got a power point map/ list of ingredients and went to a chinese market to get everything. I joined her after work and we went to Carrefour to get the missing things...
We met Shuwei (who scared us in the middle of Carrefour) and then went to Julias appartement to make the dumplings. We started out with the dough. You need to put flour into a bowl. Then add water (with a little bit of salt) in the middle and then slowly mix with your fingers so it becomes dough (kind of like pizza dough). Then we started chopping all the vegetables into tiny pieces. We had cabbage, spring onion, garlic, ginger and some kind of mushroom. Everything was chopped and then Shuwei pressed the water out of the cabbage (used a towel).
After that we mixed everything with a little soy sauce and salt (also pork and shrimps were put in). At this point I was already starving..which made it a little hard to focus.

We made one try out dumpling..and after that added more salt and soy sauce. Then Shuweis sister who had been making little dumpling skins out of the dumpling dough showed us how to form the dumpling. I made a video which I will try to upload soon.
After that we put all the more or less perfectly looking dumplings into the water (everyone made several ones, also Simon and Julias roommate Jerome had joined). They took really long but in the end they were very good and gone in a few minutes.

After that we discussed about de-oiling sheets (those are used by taiwanese girls to make their skin less shiny) and ate some Kinder chocolate...
Evening over...and I was tired, like I always am..

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