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There's nothing more convenient than frozen food (ok, maybe delivery, but we're not made of money). Frozen food is fast, easy to prepare, and always ready, right there in your freezer (unlike that lettuce that you should have thrown out a few days ago). Unfortunately, most frozen food is not as good as freshly prepared meals. No matter how good the commercials say it is, you're not going to run home for that plastic plate in a cardboard box. And you would never feed those frozen dinners to guests.
But there is a wonderful exception to the normal frozen food woes: frozen dumplings (and stuffed buns). These wonderful staples of Chinese cuisine are perfectly built for freezing and taste wonderful no matter how long you leave them living behind the mint-chip and rocky road. Just boil or steam them and you have a wonderful dim sum feast or appetizers for your surprise guests.
You can pick up bags of frozen dumplings in any Asian market (if you're in NYC, Sundou Dumpling House has a large selection), or try the frozen foods section of quality food markets like Trader Joe's.
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Oh, thank you for the tip on where to buy these. I am obsessed with dumplings (of most any kind, from any culture, with any filling), but especially Chinese ones. I keep trying to get a Taiwanese friend of mine to show me how to make them, but in the meantime, I'll try these.
Posted by: Luisa at November 2, 2005 03:38 PM
