There is a dream called football

Chapter 182: Making Dumplings

Dudek became addicted after tasting Chinese food for the first time, and later often pestered Li Qiao to eat Chinese food.

There's nothing you can do about it. After all, as the most powerful of the three food kingdoms, whoever says he doesn't like Chinese food must have something wrong with his brain, except for spicy food of course.

Today Li Qiao went back to Dudek's house for a party. When he first came to Liverpool, Li Qiao stayed here.

"Hi, Jerry."

When visiting someone abroad, you need a simple souvenir, such as a bottle of red wine or something. Li Qiao handed the red wine in his hand to the other party.

"Haha, please come in."

Dudek's children and wife are all in the living room, especially his cute little girl Lisa, who is particularly interesting.

"Lisa, how many times have I told you that you need to speak English with your guests, not Polish."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just learning Polish with Lisa."

Dudek chuckled, "Brother, no need, I think you will definitely not go to Poland to play football in the future."

"Ha ha."

After setting up the equipment, Li Qiao opened his laptop and opened the video. On the other end was his mother in Guangzhou.

"Mom, are you ready?"

The mother over there looked embarrassed, "I really lost to you."

It turned out that Li Qiao was going to show off his skills to the Dudek family and teach them how to make dumplings, but he tried many times yesterday without success, so he came up with such a strange way and asked his mother to teach him.

The mother at the other end of the video has prepared a rolling pin, a chopping board, and of course the kneaded dough.

"start?"

"start!"

At the end of the video, Dudek, his wife and Li Qiao start to learn step by step.

"Okay, let me see your face."

Li Qiao lifted it up, but the two ends were pointed and unqualified.

Dudek lifted it up, slightly better, but completely asymmetrical.

Dudek's wife did the best job, but she didn't meet the standard.

"Li Qiao, this is more difficult than I thought."

"Mom, this is a teammate, and I must have a good relationship with them."

"Haha, I understand."

However, it is indeed difficult to roll out dumpling wrappers for the first time. The biggest difficulty is unevenness. It is similar to drawing a circle, and it can easily become crooked.

After trying several times and still failing, my mother said: "Li Qiao, go find a mug."

"what?"

"As an impression."

Li Qiao suddenly realized, yes!

It's much easier to use the rim of a mug to print a circle on a piece of dough, and then roll out a dough based on it.

"Haha, it worked. Mom, you are really a genius."

"hey-hey."

But this is still the simplest step. The next step is really technical work. The reason why dumplings are dumplings, not steamed buns, is because of their unique shape.

Li Qiao first picked up a piece of dough, and then added a little bit of filling, just a little bit, so as not to expose any fillings.

Then he started to wrap it like a cat and a tiger, but soon Li Qiao discovered the problem, that is, it was still inevitable that it would become a bun, and it was a very untechnical bun, let alone pleated.

"Mom? Is there any way?"

"This is a technical job, and there's nothing I can do about it. Why don't you buy quick-frozen dumplings?"

"That's not sincere."

"..."

Just when his mother was helpless, Li Qiao suddenly thought, "There is a way."

I saw Li Qiao kneading out a dough without any shape as before, and then he used a Western knife to shape the dough.

right!

If you can’t make out the pleats, then fake it!

Mom was shocked, is this okay?

But for foreigners, it doesn't matter, and Dudek even mistakenly thought that this is how dumplings are made.

"Come on, come on, you also learn from me."

Dudek's family followed suit and began to carve dumplings.

puff!

"Li Qiao, you are such a bad teacher, you have ruined all your students."

"Don't worry, Mom, I will definitely buy quick-frozen dumplings in the future. I find that I really can't do this technical job."

After dozens of them were made, everyone started cooking dumplings.

Li Qiao is experienced in this aspect, and he must use less of them, because if there are too many, they will easily break, and then they will be exposed, and finally become a pot of soup.

After cooking more than a dozen, Li Qiao shared them with everyone. If he didn't eat them, he would be rude and embarrassed. These...are not dumplings!

"tasty."

Dudek gave a thumbs up.

"Really?"

"If you don't believe me, ask Lisa."

Li Qiao looked at little Lisa and saw that she had eaten three or four. She looked as cute as a little squirrel eating pine cones.

"Is it tasty?"

"Hmm." Lisa said a bunch of Polish again. She came to the UK with her mother not long ago, and her command of English is not that good.

"She means delicious."

After eating the dumplings, Dudek's wife was going to make some Polish specialties for Li Qiao, such as Polish sausage.

The food in Poland is actually very similar to that in Germany. It used to be a bitter cold place on the European continent, so you had to eat some high-calorie foods.

Dudek patted Li Qiao and said, "The sausages made by my wife are excellent."

"Okay, give it a try."

Eating sausages with beer is a perfect match.

“It feels like being in Germany.”

"Yes, many things in Poland are similar to those in Germany, and they are even more similar now. Many Poles will go to Germany, such as football players."

Li Qiao remembered that several of Poland's best players later played in the German league, and even Klose and Podolski were Polish immigrants to Germany.

"Then why don't you go to Germany?"

"I don't know. Actually, you can go to Germany, but you know, the most important thing in German football is goalkeepers."

"And the British side are short of goalkeepers."

"Ha ha."

The family was chatting happily, except for one person, Dudek's little daughter. She was a foodie. She didn't talk and kept eating.

"Lisa, let me ask you, are the dumplings better, or those made by your mother?"

Unexpectedly, Lisa gave a very creative answer.

"I think Polish sausage is the best when wrapped in a dumpling."

"Haha, so creative."

Dudek touched his girl and said, "Li Qiao, let me tell you, it is best to have a daughter for your first child. It will make you feel very happy."

"Haha, okay."

Seeing the lovely Lisa, Li Qiao really wanted to have a daughter. That was such a heartwarming thing.