Where Do I Find Northern Chinese Dumplings? [Happy Chinese New Year!]

• Everybody tryin to get out of China. Every CCP party official Embezzel/ Steal as much as possible and come to America. No extradition. They send their kids here and go to college. They buy expensive apts in Manhattan and houses in Swank Long Island. Everybody knows they are not returning. All the women marry a American man and get citizenship. They dump their Chinese husbands. The rich Chinese that get to come to America all eatin French haute cusine and wine. They look down on the poor immigrants and ABC that are eating dumplings.

• RSietsema: In Beijing you will crack up laughing in a good way. The Manchu & Mongol Chinese heritage in the cooking is ingrained in the Beijing method of preparing meats. There are cured meats like cured donkey meat and cured horse meat. They were extremely tender and moist cut in slices and you spread  spicy garlic sauce on it. It was delicious. They serve it on a platter. You eat it with hot steamy wheat buns. Fantastic. The other version of the prepared meats are  boiled in garlic and spices served dry and cold. The spices cooked in the process [i.e anise, cumin & pepper] are inbeded into the meat making it delicious with scallion pancakes. Served on a platter as well. It's common to make a Chinese version of a Kati Roll with slices of scallion and Chinese spicy mustard. The "Peking Duck" or really North Asia goose is meaty fantastic out of this world. The spieces of goose in Northern Asia and the intense preparation is awesome. There is a widely asorted collection of about 23 Uygiur Chinese restaurants in Beijing offering Pan Turk/Middle Eastern influence cuisine. Believe me, the hummus is fantastic in Beijing.

• Homey has a point. They're called 小吃- snacks basically & you see xiao chi restos all over China. Food stalls are mostly 肉串 (insert animal) rou chaun(r)- kebabs of every sort imaginable. Spicy Xinjiang lamb is most popular. Check out the street meat cart on 8th avenue & 61st in Sunset. They're serving chaun(r) til 3 am most nights about 20 feet from the N train. As far as jiaozi go, Vanessa's is super hipsterized & while it has the best sesame bao around, it's super taxing to just wait around forever in there. Prosperity is the original & sells 100 packs for about $11.

• Thanks for the report, CarlitoChinto!

• I just came back from China. People in China eat dumplings with lamb sandwich's. Its considered fast food like eating hotdogs and burgers. What's also common is all sorts of meat and seafood on stick grilled kebab . Chicken and lamb pieces on stick is very common.

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