Mrs Tsai’s Pork Dumplings

I was fortunate to grow up enjoying not only my mother’s well-prepared, delicious food but that of her friends who cooked as well as she did. Mrs Tsai, for example, our neighbour and my mother’s best friend, was renowned in Chinatown as a wonderful home cook and housewife; her fame spread by word of mouth through Chicago’s Chinatown. I remember going to her home and enjoying exceptional meals, especially her savoury home-made dim sum snacks. Her pork dumplings were so good that people order