Little Pieces of Heart: Lunar New Year Dumpling Class

In Partnership with Urban Harvest

Every Lunar New Year’s eve, Chinese families gather to make dumplings. Dumplings not only represent the reunions that occur, but also symbolize wealth because of their close appearance to Chinese gold ingots—oval, boat-shaped hunks of gold used as currency in Imperial China. As the midnight hour approaches, families can be found busily wrapping dumplings for a feast as the clock strikes the hour, heralding the appearance of a new year and leaving the old year behind.

Chef Susan Tsai, who has made dumplings in Houston for over twenty years, will be your guide. Your Lunar New Year celebration starts by rolling out a wrapper and then learning how to fill and shape dumplings under the expert tutelage of chef Tsai. You have a choice of two options for filling: pork or vegetarian. Along the way, you’ll hear tales of family celebrations and the story of the recipes used in the class. Each kit makes about 20 dumplings that you will take home to cook and includes the dough, choice of filling, a sauce, a rolling pin, chopsticks, an apron, recipes for the filling and sauce, and tokens of good luck for Lunar New Year. At the end of the class, chef Tsai treats us to a bowl of soup and a sampling of dumplings for you to taste.   

Please select pork or vegetarian filling when you place your order. Join the Archaeology Now and Urban Harvest family for little morsels (little pieces of heart) as we greet the Year of the Tiger!

2-4pm, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022

$65 per person. Limited to 25 participants.

3302 Canal St, Houston, TX 77003

Bring the kids, bring the grandparents. This is a family-friendly class!