If you've only eaten soup dumplings at a restaurant, you might have imagined some high-tech culinary syringe injecting premade dumplings ... to stuff dumpling wrappers. Steaming the dumplings ...

Rushing the thaw risks damaging the frozen dumpling wrappers, which is undesirable. A gentle, even thaw prevents wonton ...

Before you reach for that frosty bag of store-bought frozen dumplings ... she's adept at making dumpling dough from scratch, she's not above using store-bought wrappers to speed up the process.