21 March, 2009  Baozi | Chinese Dumplings   Look for a Dim Sum
restaurant.  The way they usually work is that the servers  come
round with those bamboo steamers  and sticky rice wrapped in
bamboo leaves on carts  - if you see something you fancy you
take the steamer  and they stamp your car.  At the end they
tally up the stamps. One of the things I love about big cities
like Los Angeles, New York or London is the food. London by far
has been my favorite. Almost every imaginable food is available,
and generally within walking distance. One of the foods that I
haven't found in this area (yet) is the Chinese Dumpling (which
I  is called a Baozi). (Apparently I'm to look for a Dim Sum
restaurant.) I've been longing to try one since Anthony Bourdain
stated it was the "have-to" Chinese food. I was falsely advised
that the English translation of Jiaozi means "heinous
excursion", but Tanner Brown in Bejing laughed at what could
have been a good band's name:  "Jiao literally means dumpling
(specifically the non-round,