Sentence examples for ink dumplings from inspiring English sources

CHINESE ZHENG HE'S It feels like a modern version of the Forbidden City, but the menu here is pure tradition: Beijing and Cantonese mainstays, including squid ink dumplings and, of course, crispy duck.

The dim sum dumpling platter, seen above, resembles a muted painter's palate with a sheer pink har gau (shrimp dumpling), white scallop shumai dotted with tiny orange roe, a pleated dumpling in a precise shade of green tea, and a black squid ink dumpling.

The elaborate tasting menu abounds in imaginative flourishes, such as savory pastries made to resemble calligraphy brushes that can be dipped in tomato ''ink'' and dumplings in the shape of miniature hedgehogs.

Those dumplings?

Simple fried chive dumplings?

School cafeterias serve dumplings.

Soup dumplings were dry.

Asian dumplings were standard.

Ink freezes.

Yield: 42 dumplings.

Also fried dumplings.