The woman was making Jaozi in the Chenggong Market

Woman making Jaozi in market — Woman making Jaozi

In addition to fresh food, the Chenggong Market also sold prepared foods. The woman in the photo was a worker at one of several delicatessen shops. She was sitting in front of a store selling homemade dumplings, with a bowl of dumpling filling and a plastic bat beside her. Scooping up the dumpling filling with a spatula, she wrapped it into one dumpling skin after another with a mature hand. The woman was wearing a red apron with the market's logo and name printed prominently on it. As I watched her skilled hands, the woman eventually noticed me. She stopped her work and gave me a smile and a peace sign.

Needless to say, Jaozi is a common Chinese dish in Japan. However, they are treated a little differently. In Japan, Jaozi is eaten with rice, as in the gyoza set meal, but in the Chinese-speaking world, Jaozi and rice are the same thing. In other words, you have a choice between eating Jaozi and white rice, but there is no such thing as eating white rice with Jaozi as a side dish.

Seeing the woman's happy face reminded me of a time when I ordered Jaozi and white rice together in Taiwan and was told by the restaurant staff that it was not the same thing. Eating a Jaozi set meal here is like eating white rice with fried rice as a side dish.

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