From Utsunomiya, Tochigi.
Pin · Utsunomiya · city
- Region
- Japan
- First record
- 1958 · Modern & global
- Fold
- Crescent
- Cooked
- Fried/boiled/deep-fried
Anatomy
Inside
- Wrapper
- Wheat dough
- Filling
- Vegetable-heavy
- Cooked
- Fried/boiled/deep-fried
- Served
- Gyoza Matsuri (early November)
- Size
- About 6 cm across
Not known yet We don’t yet have a written story, a recipe or a dated or primary source for Utsunomiya gyōza. What we do have is below, with its sources.
Range
Where
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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.
First record Utsunomiya Minmin opens, August 1958 (S); 14th-Division link unproven
Notes from the research
Linked to the IJA 14th Division, garrisoned at Utsunomiya and deployed to Manchuria. One shop, Koran, dates from 1959.
This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §6.5, 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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