Jo’s Mum’s Dumplings

Dumplings by Xiaoling

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Chinese-ish: Home cooking, not quite authentic, 100% delicious

By Joanna Hu and Rosheen Kaul

Published 2022

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Jo: This endeavour started with the best of intentions. I have often proclaimed that when it comes to dumplings, I have never tried a restaurant version that beat my mum’s homemade ones, so we thought this would be a fitting inclusion in this chapter. Sounds great, I thought – I’ll just go home and ask her for her recipe. Easier said than done.

I can’t be alone in the discovery that trying to write down a family recipe in quantifiable terms is, in fact, a momentous feat. There are, apparently, no such things as measurements.