There are different versions of the origin of the word "steamed dumplings". Another way of saying this is for steamed dumplings, a lamb and onions. It is said that steamed dumplings originated in Guihua City (Huimin District and Yuquan District of Hohhot City) in the Qing Dynasty. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, two brothers lived by selling steamed buns near Jokhang Temple in Da 'nan Street. Later, my brother married his daughter-in-law, and my sister-in-law asked for separation. The steamed stuffed bun shop belongs to my brother-in-law, and my brother makes steamed buns in the shop and sells them. Besides eating, my kind brother is as poor as a church mouse. In order to increase income, he will marry a daughter-in-law in the future. When steaming steamed bread on the stove, he made some thin-skinned "steamed bread" to distinguish between selling and not selling.

There is another saying: As early as three years in Qianlong, Wang of Beijingli Village, Fushan County opened a Fushan Steamed Dumpling Restaurant outside Qianmen, making fried triangles and various famous dishes. On New Year's Eve, Gan Long came back from a private visit to Tongzhou and went to Fushan Steamed Dumplings Restaurant to eat steamed dumplings. The steamed dumplings here are soft and fragrant, oily but not greasy, white and crystal clear, like emerald pomegranate. After eating a big meal, he was full of praise. After returning to the palace, he personally wrote "all in one place" in three characters, and ordered people to make a plaque and send it to Fushan Steamed Dumpling Hall. Since then, the steamed dumpling restaurant has gained great fame and doubled its value. But this has little to do with the origin of the name.

The reason why steamed dumplings are not sealed at the top is because tea drinkers bring different kinds of side dishes, some are raw beef and mutton, ginger and onion, some are radish and green vegetables and dried tofu ... In order to distinguish the side dishes of tea drinkers, they are not sealed. Every time a steamer is finished, the bartender will put the steamer on the big table in the tea room and say, "Here's the side dish for the tea drinker, please help yourself." At this time, the tea drinkers ordered their own "pancake cabbage" and drank it while eating.

Another way of saying this is that steamed dumplings originated from steamed stuffed bun. The main difference between it and steamed stuffed bun is that it uses unfermented noodles as the skin, and the top is not sealed, showing pomegranate shape. The earliest historical records show that in the14th century, Tong Tong, a Chinese textbook published by North Korea (now North Korea),

Nowadays, the varieties sold everywhere are richer and more exquisite. For example, chopped stuffing in Henan, pork with scallion oil in Hebei, duck oil in Anhui, beef in Hangzhou, egg drop meat in Jiangxi, mutton in Linqing, Shandong, and three delicacies in Suzhou. There are chrysanthemums in Changsha, Hunan; Guangzhou has steamed pork, shrimp, crab meat, pork liver, beef and ribs, all of which have their own local characteristics.