The Cooking Class: Empanaditas Chinas

I’m not going to get into the whole origin of these little dumplings. Some of the history is fairly well known – in China they’re called jiaozi, in Japan, gyoza, and in other countries, other things (here, pretty much regardless of which ethnic version, they’re called empanaditas chinas, then again, anyone looking remotely Asian is also referred to as a chino). There are numerous variations and there’s plenty of overlapping. Whether or not the first pastas in the world really did come from C...