Korean Dumpling

만두

Mandoo is a Korean dumpling consisting of minced meat and vegetables wrapped in a thin piece of dough. Popular meat fillings include shrimp, ground beef or pork and fish. And popular vegetables ingredients can include bean sprouts, green onions, shredded kimchi and much more. 

Korean mandoo can be cooked in several ways: simmered in beef stock (mandoo-guk), steamed or fried.  Usually, it is then dipped in soy sauce mixed with vinegar and served with kimchi on the side.  Crushed or powder red peppers can be added to the mixture of sauces to add an extra kick.  Traditionally, mandu dumplings were made at home but nowadays, it is readily available in Asian supermarkets and convenience stores.

This dish is usually enjoyed as an appetizer or as a snack but almost all Korean families prepares this dish on the first day of any New Year by simmering mandoos in a beef stock to make mandu-guk.

Fact: In Chinese, dumplings are called jiaozi and in Japanese, it's gyoza.

Recommended restaurants: Manoo Bar, Mandarin