Travel just about anywhere on Earth, and you're likely to encounter a dumpling. For just about as long as humans have been eating, they've been dropping balls of dough into boiling water or stock, and they've been filling them with meat or vegetable mixtures for nearly as long as that. Over the years, creating a filled dumpling has become an art form. Just take a look at the soup dumpling, a dim sum favorite: a mixture of meat and gelatin-rich broth is chilled until it becomes a solid, then it's wrapped up in thin dough and steamed until the mixture inside melts. When you bite into the dumpling, the rich soup spills out; a great soup dumpling is unlike just about any other bite of food...
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