Dumpling Making Party with Virginia & Terrie

Jiaozi are a type of Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable  filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough.

Traditionally, jiaozi were thought to be invented during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD) and  Chinese archaeologists have found a bowl of jiaozi in the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) tombs in Turpan. 

Jiaozi have great cultural significance within China -- many families throughout northern China eat these at midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve.  Some cooks will even hide a clean coin inside a jiaozi for the lucky to find.  In the Western world, a fried variety is referred to as  potstickers.  

Jiaozi look like  silver or gold ingots used as currency during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), and as the name sounds like the word for the earliest paper money, serving them is believed to bring prosperity.   

This is a Members Only event.  Come join Virginia Ngo and Terrie Mui on a culinary adventure…