Xīn Nián Kuài Lè! Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the pig and we celebrated it with a small dumpling making party in our home for friends and family. After having learned several times from several different home cooks back in China, how to make dumplings from scratch, Mister Julie Ann Events and I tried to pass our knowledge on to our friends. We had a fun evening rolling out dough and pleating the little packets into dumplings that would taste good and hopefully stay together once we cooked them!
For our menu, we offered a variety of authentic Chinese dishes for our guests. After a successful trip to the Asian food market in Wilmington, North Carolina and the Hong Kong Supermarket in Myrtle Beach, we had fresh vegetables, herbs, snack food, and spices that are all authentic to China. We offered a variety of vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free menu item as well as food items for the meat eaters in our party. The one glaringly inauthentic menu item was in our appetizers of hummus and kalamata olives. We served tiny cherry tomatoes which is a food item that provides the lucky red color important in Chinese culture.
For a fun touch, we had passed our take out containers and chopsticks for people to eat their meal with. The meal consisted of bok choy, sesame mushrooms, steamed rice, tomato & egg, Chinese pancakes, and pork spring rolls. Since it is the year of the pig, we all made pork dumplings. The vegan option was a pumpkin, mushroom, and brussel sprout medley.
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