Two Little Dumplings

Your weekend is about to get FLAVORFUL!

Can you believe it’s already the middle of August? Summer has been flying and we are at Saturday Delmar Farmers Market every week making the most of it!

This Saturday will be your FINAL opportunity to try our gua baos (steamed bun sandwiches) during the outdoor market season. (Come early because they go fast💨) We are also serving up cheeseburger🍔dumplings with all your favorite toppings and the much requested mango🥭sago returns!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering tomorrow, 8/17 (9am-1pm) -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍔Cheeseburger Dumplings
🍳Chive & Egg Dumplings
🥩Pork & 🥬Tofu (Vegan) Gua Baos
🥭🥥Mango Sago (Vegan & GF) & 🥜🍪Peanut Black Sesame Cookies

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🍤🐷Lunar Dumplings
🌽🐔Golden Dumplings
🥕🥬Classic Vegan Dumplings
🍆🍄Mapo Tofu Dumplings (Vegan)
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

This week, we’re leaning in on one of New York summer’s favorite produce - sweet corn 🌽!
From dumplings to dessert, we’re serving so much corny goodness that you won’t want to miss.

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering Saturday Delmar Farmers Market , 8/10 (9am-1pm) -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍜🥗Asian Noodle Salad w. Roasted Sweet Corn (GF & Vegan)
🌽🐔Golden Dumplings
🍆🍄Mapo Tofu Dumplings (Vegan)
🐔Sān Bēi Jī (3 Cup Chicken) Baos
💚Vegan Cha Siu Baos
🌽Sweet Corn Nian Gao (GF & Dairy Free Sweet Rice Cake) & Miso Furikake Corn Krispies

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐷🥬Classic Pork
🫑🥩Pepper Steak
🥕Classic Vegan
🍛Curry Vegan
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

We’re bringing lots of customer favorites to the market this week! Our summer exclusive dumpling flavors - Chicken & Thai Basil and Green Curry Vegan - return, along with Taro Mochi Baos! Our Asian Noodle Salad will feature our favorite topping of roasted kabocha squash. Be sure to snag a Miso Dark Chocolate Chip Cookie to munch on as well! Should you need to make a quick stop, our Cheeseburger dumpling flavor is available in frozen packs!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering at Saturday Delmar Farmers Market, 8/3 (9am-1pm) -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍜🥗Asian Noodle Salad w. Roasted Kabocha Squash (GF & Vegan)
🐔🌿Chicken & Thai Basil Dumplings w. Peanut Sauce
💚🍛Green Curry Vegan Dumplings w. Cilantro Coconut Sauce
🥩Pork Cha Siu Baos
💜🍡Taro Mochi Baos (Vegan)
🍪Brown Butter Miso Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies & 🍌Sesame Miso Banana Bread (Vegan)

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐔🥬Classic Chicken
🍔Cheeseburger
🥕Classic Vegan
🍳Chive & Egg (Vegetarian)
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

Summer sun-ripened tomatoes are the closest thing we have to tasting starlight.

They shine on their own, and make any salad so much better. Add on pan-fried dumplings, a complementing dressing, and voilа! A completely glorious meal!

Find all the ingredients you need Saturday Delmar Farmers Market this week, 8/3 (9am-1pm)!

🥗inspired by Hetty Lui McKinnon
🍅courtesy of

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It's rice bowl week along with dumplings and baos galore! Come enjoy Lǔ Ròu Fàn 滷肉飯 braised pork rice (made gluten-free!), Pepper Steak Dumplings, Nutella Baos, and Mango Cheesecake (last chance!). As always, every Saturday is a great time to swing by the Saturday Delmar Farmers Market and we hope to meet you there!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍚Lǔ Ròu Fàn 滷肉飯 - braised pork rice (GF)
🫑🥩Pepper Steak Dumplings
🥕Classic Vegan Dumplings
🐔Sān Bēi Jī (3 Cup Chicken) Baos
🍫Nutella Chocolate Baos
🥭🍰Mango Cheesecake and 🍑🍵Peach Oolong Tea Cakes

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐷🥬Classic Pork
🌽Golden (Chicken & Sweet Corn)
🍛Curry Vegan
🍆Mapo Tofu (Vegan)
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

#518

This week at the market, you can find our exclusive to outdoor season flavors - Chicken & Thai Basil and Green Curry Vegan Dumplings - along with SO many more delicious options! Take advantage of the cooler weather to come out and enjoy good food and fun at Saturday Delmar Farmers Market.

Chicken & Thai Basil dumplings are flavorful in all the best ways - zesty (lime), spicy (ginger, garlic, black pepper), herby (Thai basil), and umami (fish sauce) all in one delectable package. This dumpling is drizzled with peanut coconut sauce and sprinkled with crushed peanuts. Take it to the next level with all the usual works - scallions, fried onions, and chili oil!

Green Curry Vegan dumplings are just as amazing with Thai green coconut curry tofu, shredded golden potatoes, cabbage, and chives. We’ll be serving these drizzled with a cilantro coconut lime sauce to complement the spicy nature of this filling!

Catch these dumplings while you can because we’ll only have them around for a few markets!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍜🥗Asian Noodle Salad (GF & Vegan)
🐔🌿Chicken & Thai Basil Dumplings
💚🍛Green Curry Vegan Dumplings.
🥩Pork Cha Siu Baos
🥬Vegan Cha Siu Baos
🫘🍡Red Bean & Mochi Baos (Vegan)
🍌🥥Banana Coconut Nian Gao (Dairy-Free, GF), 🍰 Hojicha Vanilla Basque Cheesecakes w. Miso Caramel

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🌽Golden (Chicken & Sweet Corn)
🫑🥩Pepper Steak
🍤Lunar (Shrimp & Pork)
🥕Classic Vegan
🍳Chive & Egg (Vegetarian)
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

#518

The Golden hour has arrived -
One of our favorite dumplings is back and it shines even brighter this year with the addition of locally sourced sweet corn and summer squash.

You can purchase frozen packs of this delicious flavor at both our pick-ups held on Friday, 7/19 (3-6pm in Slingerlands) and Saturday Delmar Farmers Market on Saturday, 7/20 (9am-1pm).

If you've been finding it hard to make it to our markets on Saturdays, you can pre-order for pick-ups starting Wednesday, 7/16 at 8am. We will have ELEVEN varieties of dumpling flavors available that you can select from, so don't miss out on this opportunity!

Happy Friday! We’re preparing for another delicious weekend so plan to come hungry to Saturday Delmar Farmers Market this Saturday, 7/13 (9am-1pm). Come try our stunning and delicious Lunar dumplings, 割包 Gua Bao (steamed bun sandwiches filled w. your choice of braised pork or tofu (vegan) topped w. housemade pickles), and so much more!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering -
Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍤Lunar Dumplings (Shrimp & Pork)
🥕Classic Vegan Dumplings
🥩Pork & 🥬Tofu (Vegan) Gua Baos
🍰🍒Almond Cherry Tarts (Bakewell Tart) w. Hojicha Shortbread Crust, Biscoff S’Mores Cookies, and Lychee Almond Sago (Vegan & GF)

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐷🥬Classic Pork
🫑🥩Pepper Steak
🥕Classic Vegan
🍆Mapo Tofu
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

#518

Lately, we've taken steps towards sourcing more ingredients from local farmers and businesses. For example, the kale used in our recent batch of Curry Vegan dumplings comes from friends we've made at the Delmar Farmers Market. We first connected with Julia and Anthony of over a shared love for our vegan dumplings, baos, and other dishes. We are thrilled to partner with them this year to bring you the most delicious and nutritionally vibrant foods we can.

To be honest, we wish we could say this about every ingredient we use. While running this business and learning more about farming practices, food production, etc., we have a deepening appreciation for and understanding of sourcing local whenever possible for better quality, better environmental impact, and better community. As a small and low margin business with very limited staff, we don't always have the ability to acquire local ingredients when we need them. So another lesson we've learned since beginning Two Little Dumplings, it is to let go of an "all-or-nothing" mentality. Sometimes is better than never, which is a starting point that we plan to grow from.

And if you haven't had dumplings in your salad yet, we highly recommend you give it a try! It's a surprisingly great combination during these hot and humid days. As for dressing? Just drizzle our dipping sauce and chili oil atop it all and mix.

Kale us crazy, but it's really good!

Sometimes, the best inventions are accidental. An extra batch of honey sesame cookies were reinvented into the crust of this cheesecake. And the cake flavor itself was dreamed up to complement the honey sesame - osmanthus flowers. While a more unknown tea, the osmanthus flower gives a delicate sweet, floral, buttery flavor. The dried flower tea was steeped and infused in the cream overnight before being strained and whipped into the Basque cheesecake. The result? A perfect match.

Available at the Saturday Delmar Farmers Market today!

Happy 4th of July!

Stop by our market stand for cheeseburger dumplings this Saturday, 7/6 (9am-1pm). Last week, we quickly sold out of our noodle salads, but rest assured, we will be bringing more tomorrow. Be sure to check out the desserts as well - basque cheesecake and blueberry lemon nian gao!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:

🍜🥗Asian Noodle Salad (GF & Vegan)
🍔Cheeseburger Dumplings served w. *Boom* Sauce or Lychee Ketchup
🍳Chive & Egg Dumplings (Vegetarian)
🐔Sān Bēi Jī (3 Cup Chicken) Baos
🥬Vegan Cha Siu Baos (BBQ “Pork”)
🍰Osmanthus Basque Cheesecake

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -

Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐔🥬Classic Chicken
🫑🥩Pepper Steak
🥬🥩Kimchi & Beef
🥕Classic Vegan
🍛Curry Vegan
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you Saturday!

#518

Wrapping up June with a super tasty menu!

A customer favorite rice dish, Lǔ Ròu Fàn 滷肉飯 (pronounced: loo row fahn), is on our specials list. A ladleful of braised pork and shallots is doled out over pearly jasmine rice with a side of jammy marinated egg and housemade pickled daikon. This week, you will also find the return of our beloved GF Vegan Noodle Salad tossed in our sesame ginger miso dressing!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering up this Saturday, 6/29 Saturday Delmar Farmers Market -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍚Lǔ Ròu Fàn 滷肉飯 - braised pork rice (GF)
🍜🥗Asian Noodle Salad (GF & Vegan)
🥬🥩Kimchi & Beef Dumplings
🍆🍄Mapo Tofu Dumplings (Vegan)
🐷BBQ Pork Cha Siu Baos
🫘🍵Red Bean & Matcha Mochi Baos (Vegan)
DESSERTS: 🍰Hojicha Strawberry🍓Tea Cake, 🥭Mango 🥥Sago (GF & Vegan), and🍋🍓🍵Neapolitan Sugar Cookies

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐷🥬Classic Pork
🍔Cheeseburger
🥕Classic Vegan
🍳Chive & Egg (Vegetarian)
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

#518

Hot days call for cool salads 🥗 😎
Our popular and much requested GF noodle salads with sesame ginger miso dressing will be returning to the this Saturday, 6/29.

Rain or shine, we’ll be showing up to the market ready to dish out delicious dumplings, baos, and more to save you the trouble of cooking in this heat! Also grab some frozen dumplings for later days that are just too warm to break a sweat cooking from scratch.

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering up this Saturday, 6/22 Saturday Delmar Farmers Market -
Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🐷🥬Classic Pork Dumplings
🍳Chive & Egg Dumplings (Vegetarian)
🐔Sān Bēi Jī (3 Cup Chicken) Baos
🥬Vegan Cha Siu Baos (BBQ “Pork”)
🍵🍒Oolong Cherry Almond Cakes (GF), 🍌Vegan Miso Banana Bread, 🥚Almond Egg Tarts

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐔🥬Classic Chicken
🍔Cheeseburger
🥕Classic Vegan
🍛Curry Vegan Dumplings
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you tomorrow!

#518

Happy Father’s Day weekend! Visit our market stand this Saturday, 6/15 to enjoy a meal with dad, to pick out frozen dumplings in his favorite flavors, and to get him a sweet treat to celebrate!

This is also the FINAL weekend our zòngzi (sticky rice dumplings) will be available so stop by if you wanted to try some!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering up this Saturday, 6/8 at Saturday Delmar Farmers Market -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🐲🛶🎉🍚Zòngzi 粽子 (Pork & Vegan Option) - Sticky rice dumplings in celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival
🐔🥬Classic Chicken Dumplings
🍛Curry Vegan Dumplings
🥩BBQ Pork Cha Siu Baos
🍫Nutella Baos (Vegetarian)
🍵🍓🍰Matcha Strawberry Trifle, 🥜🍪PB & Black Sesame Cookies

Available to Bring Home 🏠:
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐷🥬Classic Pork
🫑🥩Pepper Steak
🥕Classic Vegan
🍆Mapo Tofu (Vegan)
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you Saturday!

Pick-Up Week!

The best fathers deserve the best dumplings! We are holding pick-ups in Slingerlands this Friday, June 14th between 3-6PM just in time to get dumplings for the father-figures in your life (and yourself!). If you're anything like us, we have fathers in our lives who have everything they already need and want, but will never say no to a good meal!

How to:
🛒Pre-order frozen dumpling packs for dad and for you in our online store.
🚘🗓️Pick-up in Slingerlands on Friday, 6/14, between 3PM - 6PM.
🥟Bring home dumplings to enjoy at your convenience!

See you soon!

So much to look forward to tomorrow. Weather looks to be beautiful and we’ve got a stellar menu lined up for you to enjoy!

Here are all the yummies we’ll be offering up this Saturday, 6/8 Saturday Delmar Farmers Market -

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🐲🛶🎉🍚Zòngzi 粽子 (Pork & Vegan Option) - Sticky rice dumplings in celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival
🍤Lunar Dumplings (Shrimp & Pork)
🍆Mapo Tofu Dumplings (Vegan)
🐔Sān Bēi Jī (3 Cup Chicken) Baos
🍋Lemon Custard Baos
🥭Mango Cheesecake Slices, 🌽Miso Furikake Corn Krispies, 🍋🍓🍵 Neapolitan Cookies

Available to Bring Home 🏠 -
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐔🥬Classic Chicken
🫑🥩Pepper Steak
🥕Classic Vegan
🍛Curry Vegan
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you Saturday!

Dragon Boat Festival arrives on June 10th this year and of course we recognize this special holiday by participating in the feasting! While we have never rowed a dragon boat (yet?), we do undertake the arduous art of making ZÒNGZI! 粽子 (ZOHNG-zih) is a lesser known dumpling in the USA but we hope to help it grow in popularity as it is one of our favorites. For us, zòngzi is like the Thanksgiving turkey, the Christmas yule log, the birthday cake you get once a year - heartily craved and anticipated, packed with comfort and nostalgia, assembled with the power of intergenerational family ties.

There are many different versions ranging from savory to sweet, but all are primarily made with glutinous rice (aka sticky rice) with various fillings at the center, and wrapped in bamboo leaves to be steamed or boiled.

This year, we will feature 2 types of our savory versions of zòngzi at Delmar Farmers Market on Saturdays, 6/8 and 6/15.

🐷PORK - w. Taiwanese sausage, dried shrimp, shiitake mushroom, mung bean, kabocha squash
🥬VEGAN - w. braised soybeans, shiitake mushroom, edamame, mung bean, kabocha squash

We will be offering zòngzi only during this short period of time in honor of the Dragon Boat Festival so plan to come and try one for the first time, or to enjoy this traditional dish again!

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Guess who’s back?!? Gua Bao!
Our 割包 Gua Bao are cut-open steamed bun sandwiches filled with your choice of braised pork or tofu (vegan). We top each bao with sliced pickled daikon, carrots, and cucumbers. Optional, ask for crushed peanuts and/or chili oil as well!

Here are all the other yummies we’ll be offering up this Saturday, 6/1 (9AM-1PM) Saturday Delmar Farmers Market ...

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍚Taro 稀飯 Xīfàn Savory Congee (rice porridge) (GF)
🫑🥩Pepper Steak Dumplings
🥕Classic Vegan Dumplings
🥩Pork & 🥬Vegan Gua Baos
🍯Honey Sesame Cookies & 🍌🥥Banana Coconut Nian Gao (Dairy-Free, GF)

Available to Bring Home 🏠:
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐷Classic Pork
🍔Cheeseburger
🥕Classic Vegan
🍛Curry Vegan
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you Saturday!

🎆Start your Memorial Day Weekend with delicious dumplings, baos, rice dish, and more! Find us Saturday Delmar Farmers Market on 5/25, 9AM-1PM.

We’re bringing BBQ season favorite - 🍔CHEESEBURGER DUMPLINGS!!! Served with your choice of housemade BOOM (Secret) Sauce, Lychee Ketchup, or OG Dipping Sauce.

And we also have a NEW🍚 rice dish. You might have tried Sān Bēi Jī (三杯鷄 - Three Cup Chicken) in our baos, but now you can try the real deal as it was traditionally meant to be enjoyed - over rice! This savory dish features chicken braised in soy sauce, sesame oil, cooking wine, spices, and Thai basil. Made with GF Ingredients and served with housemade pickles.

See our menu below for full details of all the yummies coming your way!

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍚Sān Bēi Jī (三杯鷄) - Three Cup Chicken w. Pickles served over Jasmine Rice (GF)
🍔Cheeseburger Dumplings
🍛Curry Vegan Dumplings
🥩Pork & 🥬Vegan Cha Siu Baos
🍫Nutella Baos
Desserts: 🍋🫐Lemon Blueberry Nian Gao (GF) & 🍪Brown Butter Miso Chocolate Chip Cookies

Available to Bring Home 🏠:
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags 🛍️)
🐔Classic Chicken
🍔Cheeseburger
🥕Classic Vegan
🍆Mapo Tofu
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

Celebrate AAPI Month at the Empire State Plaza TOMORROW, Wed., May 22nd (10am-2pm). Weather looks good so we’ll be serving up hot foods and offering frozen dumplings for take home as well! You will definitely want to bring a cooler bag and ice pack for the latter in these temps!

Check out our delicious menu below ⬇️

Ready-to-Eat Menu:
🍚San Bei Ji (三杯鷄) - Three Cup Chicken w. Pickles served over Jasmine Rice (GF)
🐷🥬Classic Pork Dumplings
🐮🫑Pepper Steak Dumplings
🥩Pork Cha Siu Baos
🍫Nutella Baos
🥮Desserts: Snowskin Mooncakes (VG & GF) & Taiwanese 🍍Pineapple Cakes

Available to Bring Home 🏠:
Frozen Dumpling Flavors: ❄️🥟(Remember your cooler bags!)
🐔Classic Chicken
🍔Cheeseburger
🥕Classic Vegan
🍛Curry Vegan
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

There will be other AAPI vendors, food trucks, and farmers market happening as well so be sure to come out for a great time!

#518

Who & What We're Made Of: FINALE
Because of You

Thank you for your encouraging responses to the stories we’ve been sharing. The best part of our work aside from being able to create something beautiful as a family is the joy we feel when getting to connect with you - our neighbors, our friends, our extended family. We see our food as: a vehicle to draw your own family together, a way to celebrate milestones, a comfort to aches and grief.

We truly believe that when you choose to support us, we have the privilege of becoming a part of your life even if it is for just one meal. We, as a family and in our work, become woven into the network of strands that knit together our community. We are blessed to know that our dumplings, baos, desserts, and other foods grace your tables during some of the most mundane and intimate times of your life, whether eaten alone or with people you love.

This is what we hope is just the start of many more years spent in serving you. We conclude our stories by sharing a few of the many notes from customers sent via email, cards, texts, DMs. We save all your words of encouragement as they buoy us during stormy weather and hurdles. Because of you, we have come this far and hope to go even farther than we could have ever imagined on our own. Thank you from our hearts.

Celebrate AAPI Month with Sweets & Treats
For our pop-up Stuyvesant Plaza with Sur La Table, we will be bringing some of the most unique selection of treats in the area to celebrate AAPI month. Find snowskin mooncakes, Taiwanese pineapple cakes, and assorted cookies when you stop by to pick up your pre-order or walk-in to take a look at all we bring along! Desserts will be first come, first served.

Please head to our website twolittledumplings.com to pre-order your frozen dumplings and sauce by tomorrow evening, Friday, 5/17 (9PM).

#518

Happy Wednesday!
This week, we are offering pick-ups in Slingerlands (Fri. 5/17 3-6PM & Sat. 5/18 10AM-2PM) and at our pop-up for AAPI month with Stuyvesant Plaza in Sur La Table (Sat. 5/18 10AM-2PM). You are able to pre-order for both events starting today through Friday while supplies last. We will be bringing extras of frozen dumplings to our pop-up on Saturday for walk-ins as well!

PLEASE NOTE: We will not be present at Saturday Delmar Farmers Market this Saturday, 5/18 but will return for Memorial Day weekend with a delicious menu on Saturday, 5/25. Thank you for understanding!

Head to our website twolittledumplings.com to find the following products available for pre-ordering to pick-up:
🐷Classic Pork
🐔Classic Chicken
🍤Lunar
🍔Cheeseburger
🥬🥩Kimchi & Beef
🥕Classic Vegan
🍆Mapo Tofu (Vegan)
🍛Curry Vegan
💜Taro Bao (Vegan)
🌶️Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

See you soon!

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Who & What We're Made Of: Part 6
Greetings from the youngest members of Two Little Dumplings!

Hi, my name is Penny. Something I like about Two Little Dumplings is when I get to taste test new creations. I’ve eaten many versions of dumplings, mooncakes, lǔ ròu fàn, and beef noodle soup. My parents like our opinion of everything, and sometimes I get tired of the foods😮‍💨. My favorite way to help is at the farmers market because I get to prepare food for people. My favorite dumplings are Chicken & Thai Basil, Golden, and Classic Vegan. For my favorite baos, I like Taro Mochi and Pork Cha Siu. As for favorite desserts, I love Snowskin Mooncakes and Honey Sesame Cookies. I hope someday we can open a restaurant and I can help decorate it and keep it running!

Hi, my name is Karis. At the farmers market, my favorite jobs are helping in the front with my mom by giving people change and putting the toppings on dumplings with my dad. My favorite dumplings are Cheeseburger and Lunar. My favorite baos are Taro Mochi and Vegan Cha Siu. My favorite desserts are the Cookies and Mooncakes. Something challenging for me is in the morning, I have to eat my breakfast fast so we can get to the market on time. I hope that everyone will like our business and that Two Little Dumplings will become a good restaurant one day.

This week Saturday Delmar Farmers Market , we’re bringing back a much requested dish - Lǔ Ròu Fàn 滷肉飯 (pronounced: loo row fahn). It is a braised pork rice dish of fried shallots mixed with rich savory sweet saucy ground pork mingled with star anise and ginger. We serve the pork over jasmine rice, a jammy marinated egg, and refreshing pickled daikon slices.

ALSO, another much requested item coming to market this weekend are 🍋lemon custard baos! We sold out of these so fast online and hope you come try them hot and steamy on Saturday!

Check out the full menu below ⬇️

Ready-to-Eat Foods:
🍚Lǔ Ròu Fàn 滷肉飯 - braised pork rice (Gluten-Free)
🥬🥩Kimchi & Beef Dumplings
🥕Classic Vegan Dumplings (Vegan)
🍗Three Cup Chicken Baos
🍋Lemon Custard Baos (Vegetarian)
🥮🍪Desserts: Snowskin Mooncakes & Neapolitan Strawberry Matcha Lemon Cookies

Available to Bring Home 🏠:
❄️🥟Frozen Dumpling Flavors: Classic Pork, Classic Chicken, Mapo Tofu, Curry Vegan
🌶️Our Soy Dipping Good Sauce & Dragon Dance Chili Oil

Hi Mamas,

We want to make sure you are well celebrated and well fed this weekend. We would give you the moon🌝if we could, but we think these snowskin mooncakes🥮will actually be more enjoyable.

They feature a trio of flavors in red bean, taro, and matcha with🍓centers. These snowskin mooncakes are also gluten-free and vegan!

P.S. Kids, if mum asks for a set of mooncakes, best get one for yourself too because she might not want to share 😉.

Available at the Delmar Farmers Market this Saturday, 5/11 (9am-1pm).

Who & What We're Made Of: Part 5
Brian’s Story

2 minutes in the microwave.

Even in high school, my mother never trusted me to cook anything on the stove. She would pre-make ramen for me before heading to work in the morning for my after school meal. I was to only microwave, and she even gave me handwritten reheating instructions for that every day. Tired of bland mushy noodles, I dared to cook my own instant ramen on the stove multiple times and even when I told her the truth, she still kept pre-making ramen for me.

At a young age, I watched my Toisanese grandmothers make traditional dishes from scratch. I helped my paternal grandmother wash bamboo leaves for zongzi. My maternal grandmother was known for her crystal skin dumplings made of tapioca starch and filled with ground pork, carrots, and peas to feed her plethora of grandchildren when they came to visit her.

I started to cook all the time when I lived on my own for an internship and often called my mother to ask for her recipes, like fried rice or chicken and broccoli. My perspective of cooking exploded when I visited Grace Manor, the family business my wife (then girlfriend) grew up in. I saw how they would cook 90+ eggs in one giant wok for breakfast and over 20 lbs of lo mein for dinner. Having never cooked on a wok station before, I took every opportunity to stand nearby, hoping that someone would ask me to help them stir with the giant wok spatula.

Experimenting with food always finds its way to the top of my hobbies. Learning about dishes I used to watch my elders make as a child (zongzi, luo buo gao, lo mai fan) is nostalgic. I am also naturally curious about foods from cuisines around the world and learning the rich history of their invention long ago. Developing and cooking recipes satisfies my craving to exercise both creative and analytical skills (after all, I am an engineer). In one dish, you get to artistically pick out ingredients that complement each other in color, but then have to execute on making sure they taste well together prepared in the right sequence. And since food concepts continue to evolve, there’s always so much to try!