Dumpling is a popular dish that appeared a long time ago and had so many versions. I think your country also had food similar to dumplings like meat is wrapped inside the dough. In Vietnam, we had the same food as this too and maybe it was just different from the mixing ingredients. When I lived in New Zealand, dumplings is one of our favorite foods and usually made because it's easy to make and do not waste a lot of time. More than that, it's so yummy and you can mix it with anything you want from minced pork to shrimp. 
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Then with me do the dumplings by your own version.
**Ingredients**
Dough ingredients:
4 cups (500-gram) all-purpose flour
2 tsp salt
300ml warm water
Or you can buy the dough in Asian markets, which they already made into circle layers. Then you just need to mix the fillings and wrap them in. There is a pack of 50-100 layers, then you can you half and store the rest in the fridge.
**Filling**
1 pound minced pork
2 green onions, diced. Then it will be mixed with the mince better
50-gram spring onion, minced. If you don't like spring onion you can remove it.
200-gram cabbage cut into thin slices.
6 cloves garlic, minced, and as small as well.
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp fish sauce if you have.
1 tbsp pepper
50-gram mushrooms, diced
1 1/2 carrots, diced
200-gram shrimp, peeled and diced.

This is dough making if you can not buy the ready one in the market or supermarket. First, you will mix 1 teaspoon of salt, flour, and warm water in a large bowl until well combined. And please ensure that the dough is floured before rolling it out and knead until it is smooth. After that, you will cut it into four equal portions of dough. Then to make dumplings cover, roll out 1 piece of dough and cut it into 6 or 8 equal pieces and continually add dough to the tray. And use the rolling pin to roll the dough into a circle about four inches (10 cm) in diameter. Then put a small piece of parchment paper between each dumpling wrapper and continue with the remaining dough. 

For the filling, you can use a big bowl to mix all the ingredients into it. And stir until they are well-corporated. For the carrot, you can boil them before mixing, it will be connected between other ingredients and carrot better. For the mushroom, you can stir-fry it with garlic before mix it. Make sure you mix it well before we start to wrap it.

To the wrapping, you can estimate it by your tablespoon and approximately 1 heaping tablespoon of the filling should be placed in the center of each dumpling wrapper. Lightly apply water to half of the wrapper's surface with your finger. Use your fingers to pleat the edges of the moistened half of the wrapper to seal it. You can repeat the process with the remaining filling and wrappers. You can use water to seal the split when you fold two layers together, remember don't take too much water just a little is okay. After that, you can finish the same action with the rest of the filling and dumpling cover. For me, I could make two full plates like this with those ingredients. 
There are so many ways to cook the dumpling, but the simple and popular is steaming. You just need to steam it on 10 mins -15 mins cause it depends on how big your dumplings are, usually, 10 mins are enough for that. You can use a chopstick to check one dumpling before taking it out 😂 for me I will take one and eat it as a trial sample.
And another way to cook is by adding a few dumplings into a pan with two tablespoons of oil in medium heat, cooking them one at a time. Then pouring 100ml water and cover the dumplings once the bottoms start to brown with a lid. Steam the dumplings for about 5 minutes, or until the water has drained. Please watch it carefully because the process is very fast. Then remove any excess moisture or grease from the cooked dumplings by transferring them to a plate and get ready to use.

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Stir together the soy sauce, rice vinegar (if you like it) just 1/2 tsp, sesame oil, and pepper powder or chili sauce. The dipping sauce should be served right away with the dumplings.

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Hope you enjoy this food.
Thank you for reading my post.