My attempt at Asian Cuisine

I love dumplings!
I would say that dumplings or gyoza are my favorite thing about Chinese and Japanese food.
So I made my own.
My groceries were purchased from an Asian supermarket located a short Gertrude ride away from where I live. The problem with cycling to the grocery store is the inevitability that I will buy too much and the inevitability that I will embarrass myself trying to cross the road with carrier bags full of raw seafood hanging from both of my handle bars. Regardless, I venture to the food shops at least once every 2 or 3 days sur le Gertrude.
So here's what it looked like:






They were surprisingly simple, and cheap considering that I bought ingredients for under 10$ and made about 60 dumplings with sauce.
I opted for the wheat flour dumpling wrappers since they seemed more manageable for a beginner like myself. I filled them with chopped raw shrimp (the cheapest I could find), fake crab meat, cremini mushrooms, spring onions, an egg, ginger,garlic, soy, pepper and a few breadcrumbs.
No measuring at all... the bulk was mushrooms and onion. I grated the ginger and garlic and then wet half the wrapper with water before folding it over and sealing it together by applying a bit of pressure. It does seem important to squeeze out any air or else they will fall apart when you try to cook them. (same as with ravioli)
I do believe that you are meant to steam them but I haven't reached that level of handywork quite yet. ( though I did buy a little bamboo steamer yesterday)
I just threw them in boiling water in a shallow pan and moved them around so they wouldn't stick.
After about 3 minutes I took them out and fried them in a pan with a bit of oil.
SO GOOOOOOOD!
I was supposed to save some for the boy but I ate 25 by myself and froze the rest.
I dipped them in a mixture of grated ginger and garlic (again), soya sauce and chopped spring onion. Its my easy peazy, use for everything, kinda Asiany flavour mixture.

So try it.
Its delicious.
I will try to get more technical next time... Sushi maybe?
Well with my budget it would be tinned tuna and salmon... can you do that?
Sushi for students. ;)
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