The word 'dumpling' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a small ball or mass of something, usually dough, cooked by boiling, steaming, or deep-frying. For example: "I love to eat pork and chive dumplings for dinner!".
Its main claim to fame is the excellent range of dim sum available at lunchtimes, and that is the chief area of competition, with Pearl Liang matching Royal China dumpling for dumpling.
He then became the 2013 champion after correctly spelling the word "knaidel," a German-derived Yiddish word for a small mass of leavened dough, or dumpling.
A single bite of cloudlike scallop-and-lobster dumpling in cherrystone-scented soup testifies to the benefits of the process.
It cooks juicy hot gyoza (dumpling) in front of you at the wooden counter (choose one without garlic if you don't want to smell on the train).
Around the corner, noodle shops are plentiful, and you can revive yourself with a bowl of dumpling soup.
Every quirky strip has its treasures: sure, Chinatown is worthy of its must-visit status, but a wander round Richmond for a dumpling crawl is an eye-opener (and not just because of the shops selling live frogs or cow's uterus).
One moment he is dumpling-eating with the masses, the next riding in a minibus instead of the presidential limousine.
I'll leave all that fiddly dumpling-making to my delicious local Chinese.
The servers go for the heavy sell on the lobster, available in soup, on pad thai, and in the lobster-dumpling kao soy.
At an intimate little burrow on Elizabeth Street north of Spring, Kazusa Jibiki has reinvented the Thai noodle-and-dumpling shop in a space that feels like a diner in Pleasantville, Japan.
She grew very fond of Mooshum and Junesse, taught them to rope, ride, shoot, and make an unbeatable chicken-and-dumpling stew.
