Wednesday, April 18, 2007

April 15, 2007: Wonton soup


In our explorations of the South Melbourne Markets, we stumbled onto Mama Tran's dumpling shop - they make the dumplings while you watch and sell them in packs of 9 for $5.90. I'm sure proper foodies would have bought all the ingredients from the fresh stalls at the markets and then made their own little vegie parcels, but I was happy to take the easy way out and pick up a pack of pre-made dumplings.

The plan for the dumplings was some sort of improvised won-ton soup: a big pot filled with garlic, vegie stock, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, a dash of kecap manis, a few dried chillies, some chinese cabbage and carrot peelings and the dumplings, all boiled together into a delicious soup. It was thrown together pretty much off the top of my head, but things turned out well - spicy and richly flavoured, with just enough of the dumplings to fill us up. Tremendous.

2 comments:

  1. are you talking about the shop that sells the best dimsims in Melbourne? There's usually a decent line of people getting the hug steamed dim sims.

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  2. I'm pretty sure this is a different one - more uncooked (and cooked) dumplings than dim sims and no line at all!

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