Jiaozi (Boiled Dumplings)

Jiaozi are the northern Chinese staple that anchors every New Year celebration, with a thick wheat dough wrapper folded into 12 pleats per dumpling. Each piece contains 15 grams of pork and napa cabbage filling, boiled for 4 minutes until plump, then served with black vinegar. At 95 calories per dumpling, they are 25% lighter than the average fried dim sum item, and their yield per batch—typically 50 dumplings—surpasses #5 Char Siu Bao’s per-batch count by 40%.