Mushiri

木丝日

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Region: Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Qinghai; also Jishishan County, Gansu
Era: Not dated yet
Fold: Bun
Cooked: Steamed

Anatomy

Inside

Wrapper: Wheat dough
Filling: Bun-type (包子), filled with oil and cooked flour
Cooked: Steamed
Served: Made with "sugar baozi" (糖包) and vegetable buns for Eid al-Adha and other festivals
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 or a dated or primary source for Mushiri. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Field notes

History

No Dongxiang or Salar boiled jiaozi-type speciality was confirmed. Dongxiang 发子 is a stuffed-intestine dish, not a dumpling.

Range

Where

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From Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Qinghai; also Jishishan County, Gansu.

Pin · Xunhua Salar Autonomous County · district or province

How sure we are

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.

This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §N12, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.

History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.

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Evidence

Kin