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Tuvan buuza

Бууза

SSecondary consensus

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Region
Tuva
Era
Not dated yet
Fold
Purse, top-knot
Cooked
Steamed
Wrapper
Wheat dough
Filling
Open-topped meat dumplings, smaller than Mongolian buuz
Cooked
Steamed
Size
About 4 cm across

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 Tuvan buuza. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Field notes

History

Unconfirmed variants (VK folk-culture post only, low/G) are пуца (putsa, large steamed manty) and манчы (manchy). Fried хуужуур (khuuzhuur) is excluded.

Where

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From Tuva.

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, §N8, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.

Relatives

Kin