Hi everyone. For anybody who's wondering, my name in German is pronounced "Kenerdelzader." It means noodle cooker or dumpling maker. So those are my roots.I'm also Irish on my mother's side.
ago um but it's kind of like um are you familiar with the Shanghai soup dumplings at all right okay right so it's similar in that um I'll talk about Shanghai soup dumplings first it's um um these little round dumplings that are um when they're
and maultaschens. Every single countries almost all have their own different kinds of dumplings. So dumpling is not just Chinese or Asian. It is actually very universal.
Mark: I'm all "Dude, we gotta go over." So we would lie to our parents and lie to my uncle and say "We wanna come over and watch Apple Dumpling Gang" on TV. And he'd go, “Yeah, sure.
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I remember being scared going to school that I would smell like Chinese food, or that my food that my parents packed me, the dumplings that would smell up the room. And one day, on Chinese New Year, my parents came and did a presentation for our second grade class.
queue every time I land just when plane lands at SFO I start thinking about Chinese dumplings just on the taxi way right why because you know the food court at the airport at SFO there is a place with these Chinese dumplings and
seriously when I when I cook at home myself when I cook at home I make um I make dumplings like here I love doing this because it's really fun with um with friends you just invite them over you make the filling you make the dough and then like everyone does all the rest of the work so it's really fun and it's
OK, another question for you. --which are Georgian dumplings-- yes-- which are amazing because they have a soup inside the dumpling .
can you make this guac burger with beer battered onion rings that I saw Guy make? Everyone has a dumpling , whether you go to Indian cuisine with samosas or if you go to a lot of African cuisines,
And so with Los Angeles, I was able to speak with the daughter of the owner-- or the founder of the Phoenix Bakery, But I started teaching dumpling classes when I first left my job in architecture to do this full time.
So my relationship with emoji is I created these six emojis that's on your phone or computer keyboard. So it is the dumpling , the chopstick, the fortune cookie, the takeout box, the peacock, and also the boba tea emoji. And I would like to share the story of how I created them.
But it's two levels, so I decided to do three restaurants, one on the bottom, one upstairs, and then one little one just for the Amazonians in the back, a little Tibetan dumpling bar. Because I had a Tibetan chef on staff for the last 17 years.
can you make this guac burger with beer battered onion rings that I saw Guy make? They have dumplings. All different Asian cuisines have delicious dumplings.
And finally, we want to honor a Google Space in campus Seoul. Just like dumplings, right?
store and our Lower East Side store, you know, that's where we're really trying to push the envelope. We're doing edamame dumplings because our clients are telling me that, hey, we need more like vegetarian options, or we need gluten free options. And we're making gluten free dumplings, edamame dumplings.
I remember-- Oh, yeah. And other dumplings should, too.
I remember-- Oh, yeah. how our shrimp dumplings is so expensive.
Are there certain spices or certain like, 10 things, for example, that we have to have stocked? Comes with fried dumplings.
So we said we're going to do fried rice. But we also made dumplings at the house, so we did-- we're going to elevate the dumplings. And the dumplings are going to be five different skins, five different unique flavors.
But we also made dumplings at the house, so we did-- we're going to elevate the dumplings. And the dumplings are going to be five different skins, five different unique flavors. Then on top of that, Urban Belly, people call it a ramen shop.
different ways of preparation it's this entire repertoire And what are the elements that we might always see? Are there themes like dumplings and chicken feet? Like what are the things that you think are the most common elements tying all of the different styles together?
Can anyone tell me why I'm wearing this mask? Gnudi are little Italian dumplings made with ricotta.
OK, another question for you. The chef is coming to our dumpling party, making khinkali-- Amazing.
And so with Los Angeles, I was able to speak with the daughter of the owner-- or the founder of the Phoenix Bakery, But if you ever made crystal dumpling dough before, it's very temperamental.
And I would like to share the story of how I created them. So it started with the dumpling . In 2015 when I moved to San Francisco from Sydney, Australia, one of my friend, Jenny 8.
So I went back to my table and I come up with the first dumpling emoji. I call it the bling bling dumpling because it blinked. And I sent it back to her and she liked it.
And finally, we want to honor a Google Space in campus Seoul. Every single time when you eat a dumpling , you are kind of opening up this pocket of unknown.
And finally, we want to honor a Google Space in campus Seoul. We're not even talking about dumpling .
there are things that I will never change there. We'll have shumais and shrimp dumpling and all the classics there forever. When I think about change, where we're doing more creative things and more innovative things at our smaller locations, like our Nolita
Think of making a really big dumpling filled with greens.
How do I make a pho dumpling ?
So I try to cook every dumpling with the technique in mind to make sure that that dumpling is great,
When we didn't need fucking dumpling day in the corporate cafeteria.
And so that's where we just bought ours. We're moving our little Tibetan dumpling business into a truck, but only because my Tibetan chef, who's 65, could not handle the business at our other place. So I'm moving her out of there.
And I sent it back to her and she liked it. And later on we had dumplings with friends from around the world. And, in fact, during the conversation, we realized dumpling is actually very universal.
And finally, we want to honor a Google Space in campus Seoul. There's so many different kinds of dumplings around the world.
And finally, we want to honor a Google Space in campus Seoul. We're all calling them dumplings, but each dumplings have very different appearance and also have very different insight, right?
We're doing edamame dumplings because our clients are telling me that, hey, we need more like vegetarian options, or we need gluten free options. And we're making gluten free dumplings, edamame dumplings. And we're doing duck baos and crispy tofu baos.
I remember-- Oh, yeah. If you want your cheap dumplings, that comes from a worker who is absolutely not making minimum wage.
You can have soup with dumplings and noodles, and that's Yeah, right.
And my mom used to wrap dumplings in Hollywood at 17 at a Chinese restaurant, and my father was a busboy.
So you can make actually vegan soup dumplings with this, which is kind of cool.
And then there's amazing dumplings.
and serving spring rolls and dumplings in the corporate cafeteria during Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.
so as soon as the plane lands working in memory right that that plane has become the Quee for my thinking about those dumplings if I can just make it to baggage plain I'm safe right so there's always next time you're next time you're
to make they're making samples in the back and we'll bring them out um and uh so I'll read a little bit about um what it was like to to do dumplings at chairman Wongs with her and and uh and what her home was like the chairman led me to a second floor apartment in one of the drab Towers at l the second ring
any questions that you might have any questions at all about the dumplings or China or how my parents are still mad at
like kind of a communal experience you know I I have a scene in my book where where we're all you know a bunch of xats and Beijing or making these dumplings together and um uh you know simple stir fries um it's actually Chinese food is actually very easy to make that's one of the things I teach at my cooking school
Basically, it started with a bunch of friends who are just really passionate about having the dumpling emoji approved. And we also did a Kickstarter campaign that championed for the dumpling emoji to be available on billions of keyboard. And we sort of did it, because the Unicode Consortium, which is this nonprofit organization that's based in Silicon Valley, Jenny and I we actually went there