Somewhere South

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Woman With Short hair

So we form a little ball, here. Okay. - Do your pleats. Oh, these pleats. - Ah. So then you put a little bit of the filling in. You start off, and then I put my two fingers right here to get the shape. What do you think? - Bend them more. That's not exactly right. - Oh my goodness.

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But it's not terrible. So do you consider yourself Chinese or Southern? Probably Chinese first. The foods that I cooked for my children, I cooked Chinese food. And they would say, "Why do you cook so much Chinese food? "Can you not cook American food?" And I said, "Okay." I cooked a pot roast for them and they looked at it and go, "What is this, mom?" Yeah,

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go ahead, go back to your dumplings. I said, "You wanted American food. "This is the best I can do." I mean, my mother cooked Chinese food all the time. Wow. So what about you? It's Southern Chinese American. Okay.

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That's what I make.