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    Posted: 15-Sep-2012 at 07:20
I have been to Russian, Ukrainian and Polish restaurants and they all eat similar dumplings to the Chinese wontons.  Of course they have different names of it (ie perogi, pelmeni, veriniki, etc.).  I also have ate at Afghanistan, Armenian and Turkish restaurants and they also have this similar dish with different names too (manti, mantu, borek, kinkali, etc.).
 
I have my theory how it spread to Middle East and Eastern Europe.  Chinese soldiers and merchants serving under the Mongol invasion armies must have spread it.  The leader of the sack of Baghdad was a Chinese general serving under the Mongol Hulagu Khan.  Merchants later followed to their court in Tabriz, Azerbaijan/Iran.  In Russia, the Tatar trading quarters in Novgorod, Russia had a Chinese section.
 
This is a comfort food eaten when the weather is cold.  This is one good thing the Mongols did in helping to spread this one part of Chinese cuisine.
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I wonder where dumplings eaten in Britain come from?
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You can buy them in the supermarket in Britain, I often eat them, much better than pasta. As for the origin, I believe it's a mystery.
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Originally posted by TheAlaniDragonRising

I wonder where dumplings eaten in Britain come from?

I imagine the English peasantry had some leftover flour, milk and eggs that needed to be used up before a fast day
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Originally posted by TheAlaniDragonRising

I wonder where dumplings eaten in Britain come from?

I imagine the English peasantry had some leftover flour, milk and eggs that needed to be used up before a fast day
You might be right about it being leftovers, Nick, although that would have been pushing it a bit maybe adding milk and eggs. However British dumplings are made of flour, suet, salt and water.
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If you've ever been to the Notting Hill Carnival Jamaican dumpling are basically English dumplings only supersized to the size of a Grapefruit. 
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Sounds tasty. I've never been to the carnival though
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