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Region
South Asia deep cuts
Era
Not dated yet
Fold
Heap of small pieces
Cooked
Boiled
Dough
Wheat doughUnfilled; small flat-fronted "bullet" shape
Made with
Wheat
Cooked
Boiled
Served
The shape stops it going mushy
Size
About 6 cm across
Note
A borderline case: it stretches the definition of a dumpling.

Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story, a recipe, a date for its first record, a dated or primary source or a precise place of origin for Lama pakthuk. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Where

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From Ladakh.

Evidence

Reasonably sure. Reference works agree, but we have not yet found a dated or primary source.

The grade comes from the project's source report and has not yet been checked source by source. How grading works.

First record Described by Kunzes Angmo, The Better India, 14 Apr 2022 (S; publication-only date)

This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §8.4, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.

Family independent

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