After Jackie and John (probably more so Jackie than John) heard about my attempt at making home-made dumplings, they (and we) insisted on having a dumpling party. So Tina and I invited them over, they brought over Albert, and we had ourselves a party.
Of course, we allocated different roles for different people. I started off making and rolling the skin (my favorite part of home-made dumplings are the home-made skin). John and Albert were assigned the role of stuffing and folding the dumplings. Jackie is in the background prepping the filling for her wontons (which were absolutely delicious, by the way). She ended up making a shrimp, pork, and bok choy filling, but I think what made everything so tasty was the sauce she used - a spicy chili sauce reminiscent of what they use at Din Tai Fung, with cilantro on top. Very good.
After some time, we switched roles. Jackie finished her filling and came to the table to help make the dumplings. Albert switched over to skin rolling, and Tina also started to make some dumplings.
John started getting ambitious with his dumpling-making, and decided to see what types of shapes he could turn his dumplings in to.
This is what resulted. From left to right: Dumpling Camel (or Dog? Or some sort of animal?), Dumpling Cube, and Dumpling Pyramid. I was impressed at his ability to manipulate the skin and make these shapes. It wasn't an easy feat.
Final layout of the meal. On either side were dumplings, and in the middle was bok choy (top) and the spicy wontons that Jackie made (bottom).
Needless to say, we were all very happy at the final product. I think we were also all very impatient while taking this photo, because all we wanted to do was eat. It takes a good amount of discipline to want to take a group photo when there's delicious food right in front of you waiting to be eaten, and you're pretty hungry because you've spent much of the evening preparing it. It was a fun time, and I hope we get to do it again soon. :)
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