Plus, there's a dumpling for practically every culture and palate. You can have them steamed, boiled, pan-fried, baked, deep-fried, and you can even have some raw.
From Italian to Nepalese cuisine, the dumpling can simply do no wrong.
Check out this gallery to take a tour through this marvel of world cuisine, the perfect combination of simple and complex, the local and global snack, the cheap, easy, and dependable staple of dreams: the dumpling.