Mantu (meat dumplings), usually served under a yogurt-based white sauce.

Four families clustered around the table, passing hot buttered meat dumplings and flat Armenian bread by the light of kerosene lamps.

"I haven't tasted one," he said, speaking of pelmeni, which are Russian meat dumplings.

Pelmeni, light-as-air tasty meat dumplings, can be sampled as appetizer or entree.

Appetizers included a credible version of both pan-fried meat dumplings and a vegetable counterpart.

It was not until he finished, pushing up the last of the meat dumplings onto a thick slab of black bread, that he spoke again.

He died at the age of 34 in Shanghai, reputedly of eating 60 meat dumplings to win a bet.

Because, the man replied, the boy's mother would not cook his favorite meat dumplings for breakfast.

Other well-known foods are momo, steamed meat dumplings, and the thukpa, noodles in broth.

They'd brought up some bowls of noodles and meat dumplings, and she was using her chopsticks busily.