Dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry

Usage examples of dumpling.

Our niang would put a one-fen coin into a dumpling and whoever found it was destined to have luck throughout the year.

She opened the packet from Johnny Long and sniffed again to make certain that whatever the white paper contained would meld with the flavor of the apples and make it truly an apple dumpling to remember.

I imagined innumerable fields devoted to a monoculture of dumpling bushes.

Roman Emperor, or even the whole lot, lay in his lavish silvery pram in the kitchen, looking remarkably like a very soft, very large apple dumpling that has been slightly over-boiled.

But when it comes to you, little dumpling, she is as overprotective as a mother.

The meal always ended with steaming pork-and-cabbage dumplings, all handmade by our niang.

The very first bowl of dumplings to be served was lucky food, for the gods of the kitchen, of harvest, prosperity, long life and happiness.

Before our niang placed each bowl of dumplings at the centre of the table, with incense on either side, she would pour some broth onto the ground in four directions.

Nobody was to touch those dumplings my niang left at the centre of the table, but they always mysteriously disappeared overnight.

My niang is busy making dumplings this morning, as a special treat to send me on my way.

Everyone pushes their bowl of dumplings in front of me, but still I eat nothing.

Besides the dumplings and the beer, we also had a dish of freshly caught fish, stewed with soy sauce, vinegar and different spices, cooked until the bones were soft enough to eat.

I want to tell Niang that I miss her dumplings and all her delicious food.

I visited my adopted family, the Chongs, that Sunday and tasted their delicious dumplings for the last time.

Chalcie pared the apples for sweet dumplings and thought about Jordan.