Eating in China
Closed golden half-moon cooked egg-wrapper parcels with no visible filling.

Egg dumplings

蛋饺Dànjiǎo

Half-moon parcels with a cooked egg skin folded around filling.

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Prepared ingredients

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Half-moon parcels with a cooked egg skin folded around filling.

In the kitchen

Layered in Jixi yipin guo.

The Jixi form has a half-moon egg wrapper. A separate Suzhou preparation wraps meat paste and uses both chicken and duck eggs; its filling should not be assumed for the Jixi form.

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这道菜里有蛋饺吗?

Does this dish contain Egg dumplings?

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