Dear Dumpling offers stories, cooking tips for Lunar New Year, February 10
The virtual VPL event features Happy Woman Kitchen and Dicky’s Dumps
Dicky’s Dumps makes traditional Chinese dumplings in small batches in East Van.
Dear Dumpling: Stories and Cooking Tips for Lunar New Year takes place February 10 from 7 to 8 pm online
DUMPLINGS ARE AN integral dish for Lunar New Year, the stuffed, seasoned, and steamed mounds of dough filled with as much symbolism as flavour.
You can learn all about them on February 10, when Vancouver Public Library presents Dear Dumpling: Stories and Cooking Tips for Lunar New Year.
Wendy Au Yeung from Happy Woman Kitchen and the team behind Dicky’s Dumps will share the history of the popular food as well as recipes and techniques during this live dumpling-making session.
Happy Woman Kitchen is an aspiring social enterprise that empowers marginalized women in the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, and Strathcona areas to use their cooking skills to earn supplemental income and participate meaningfully in their communities. Born out of relationships with many strong and kind mothers, from Syrian refugees to Chinese grandmas, the venture also makes matcha mochi cakes, traditional Chinese walnut cookies, and more.
Dicky’s Dumps crafts Chinese-style dumplings in small batches by hand and freezes them immediately. Offering variations like pork and chives, shrimp and scallop, chicken and ginger, and vegetarian, the dumpling lovers deliver throughout Greater Vancouver, while orders can also be picked up at their home base in East Van. (Note that the dumplings contain MSG, which the owners include because it’s “in their DNA”; they value the ingredient for the way it punches up umami.)
Registration for Dear Dumpling is appreciated but not required. For more information about the free online webinar, visit VPL.
Happy Woman Kitchen.
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