The Sunday before Christmas Kelly and I were invited to our Chinese teacher's home for homemade jiaozi/dumplings. Here we are with Gary, our instructor, and his four-year old daughter LanLan. When we arrived, the filling and the dough for the skins were already prepared so I still haven't learned those two steps!

LanLan spent most of the evening with her new crayons and pad of paper. She is quite an artist and loved drawing pictures and showing them to us.

Gary rolled the dough into round skins and Sophia, Gary's wife, showed us how she closes the skins around the filling. Sophia's method is different from the one I learned in Ankang. Each person or family seems to have their own unique style of making jiaozi. When all the dumplings were made we enjoyed several bowlfuls. It was a very satisfying evening.