One of the many things I miss about Beijing is having delicious dumplings all the time. There’s a pretty heated debate about which dough it the best, and which filling, and whether the best dumplings are steamed or fried or boiled, but I don’t care, all dumplings are tasty!
One of the many, many things I miss about New York is the Rickshaw dumpling truck. Delicious dumplings, without the possibility that I misspoke and ordered something wrong, like that time I accidentally ordered a whole chicken. (Chinese is hard, ok?)
North Carolina is not the greatest place for dumplings, unless you mean the floury kind with chicken, so whenever I cross paths with the Chirba Chirba truck, even if I’m not particularly hungry, I stop and get dumplings.
Smiling baozi!
Chirba Chirba parks near my office sometimes, which is about as good as it gets in North Carolina. They have a rotating selection of dumplings, including a Beijing-duck kind and a pork and chives kind. There’s always at least one vegetarian option, which is more likely to be a tasty mushroom dumpling than a token salad.
Delicious jiaozi!
Chirba has other things, like edamame and tea eggs, which I guess you could have if you didn’t want dumplings. But are you sure you don’t want dumplings?
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