I am a fan of dumplings. Bread-type foods are awesome. Filled foods are awesome. Filled bread is awesome (if you’ve never had a Georgian lobiani, you’re missing out!). A dumpling, though not necessarily having to be filled, combines a lot of this. In my world, a dumpling is normally cooked in some liquid though – that is, boiled, simmered, steamed, or deep-fried, rather than, say, baked. We’ll come back to this. I work as a researcher in linguistics, and I’m interested in comparing different languages.
