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unar New Year is just about here: It's the time for food, family, and traditions. And...dumplings. Because what better way is there to celebrate? Indeed, in Chinese culture, jiaozi, or steamed dumplings, are typically folded and eaten on New Year's Eve; they're said to symbolize luck and prosperity for the year ahead. They also symbolize deliciousness. I, myself, am an equal-opportunity dumpling eater, year-round. But for some reason, making dumplings at home has never really occurred to me, but it's actually the perfect weekend project. It's a time investment, sure, but so are those sweet rolls I made this past...

This gyoza with a flaky croissant crust is so sought after it took a year for our order to arrive. We’ve tried a lot of gyoza in Japan, ranging from Wasabeef wasabi gyoza through to varieties covered in gold leaf and ones made by former prisoners in Kabukicho. However, there’s one type of gyoza that’s alluded us since we heard about it a year ago, and it’s caused such a sensation around Japan that 4,000 boxes of them have been known to sell out in 30 minutes. Called Croissant Gyoza, this very special type of pot sticker comes from Tareya...

Dumping Debacle Spreads Fear over Chinese Food FEBRUARY 11, 2008 03:08 The debacle over pesticide-laced Chinese dumplings found in Japan has spread worry over the safety of Chinese food products, and promoted American and Japanese authorities to take preventive measures. The New York Times says U.S. athletes for the Beijing Summer Olympics will have their meals shipped from their own country. The U.S. Olympic Committee has signed contracts with major American food makers like Kellogg and Tyson Foods to deliver 25,000 pounds of meat and other foodstuffs to China two months before the opening ceremony. The committee will also make...

Activists may have poisoned China dumplings-media 06 Feb 2008 11:59:59 GMT Source: Reuters (Recasts) By Edwina Gibbs and Fumiya Mizuno TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Activists opposed to Chinese government ties with Japan may have contaminated Chinese-made dumplings that caused 10 people in Japan to fall ill, Japanese media quoted a senior Chinese food safety official as saying on Wednesday. The discovery of pesticide on the dumplings has received widespread media coverage in Japan, prompted health queries from nearly 4,000 people and led the importer of the dumplings, Japan Tobacco Inc <2914.T>, and rival Nissin Food Products Co Ltd <2897.T>...

Police looking into 'gyoza' food poisoning as attempted murder Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 16:13 EST TOKYO — The National Police Agency will seek investigative cooperation from Chinese police over the recent food poisoning incidents in Japan as the Chinese-made frozen "gyoza" dumplings that caused the poisoning may have been contaminated with pesticide deliberately in China, an agency official said Tuesday. At the first joint meeting of investigators from Chiba and Hyogo prefectures, where 10 people from three families were affected, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, head of the NPA Criminal Investigation Bureau, said, "We are not prejudging the situation, but it is...

Tests suggest gyoza contaminated in China The Yomiuri Shimbun Following a police examination of packs of six frozen gyoza returned from a shop in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, police are increasingly of the opinion that the Chinese-made frozen gyoza dumplings were contaminated with a pesticide, methamidophos, in China, according to sources. Meanwhile, Japan Tobacco Inc., the parent company of Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo-based JT Foods Co., which imported the products, spoke Monday about the operations at the Tianyang Food Processing factory in Hebei Province, China. "Using a process of elimination we came to the natural conclusion the products were contaminated with the...