These are Chinese dumplings or as they call them jaotza <--spelling is completely off. These were my first dumplings in China. After our first day of classes the foreign teachers all took me to this small shop right outside my school in Zhuji. All this shop does is sell dumplings. This is very common in China. In the picture below you can see the woman with a bowl of mixed cabbage and pork and dough making the dumplings by hand. She takes a small chunk of cabbage and pork, places it on a small piece of dough, pinches the dough into a dumpling shape and repeats. As soon as we walked in she screamed something in Chinese to the back of the shop and out came what seemed to be her son. He took our orders, grabbed a bunch of dumplings and went to the back to steam them. A few minutes later he came out with this. The dumplings were soft and the dough was almost translucent. The pork and cabbage was amazing. The dipping sauce was dark vinegar. In China they like to dip their dumplings in dark vinegar instead of soy sauce like we do in America. The vinegar is salty and bitter and a great compliment to the dumplings. I had 2 plates. I need to go back there soon.