When I was still a child and still lived in Yonglefang, every weekend an old granny would push her little cart into the alley selling mini wontons. Eating mini wontons on weekends became my largest expectation every week.
There is a kind of food called wonton in China. It is a little bit to dumplings. People knead dough and roll them into thin square pieces for the wrapping. Unlike dumplings, the wrapping is round. A variety of foods can be used for the stuffing in the wonton. Usually one type of meat and one type of vegetable is used such as pork and celery or beef and corn. Of course there is also a type of wonton that has only a single such as cod fish and shrimp. Makers use a very complicated way to wrap the stuffing into the wrapping. The difference between mini wontons and wontons is the skin of mini wontons are about one-third thinner and the stuffing is usually consisted of only park. When making it a very small portion of pork is put in the hand. Then, the skin is wrapped around it. Lastly, it is squeezed into a ball. When cooked, dried shrimp and purple seawood is added into the soup (a little similar to tofu pudding).
When eating mini wontons, it should be eaten one at a time. It would be even better to sip a bit of soup while eating it. This dish is a very suitable a midnight snack or breakfast.
(This is a picture of ordinary Wonton)
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