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rolling dough for jiaozi wrappers

Spring Festival Dumplings - Making 饺 子 Jiaozi

The dough has to be rolled to a certain dimension. How large? Just enough so that when it is cut into little sections that each section, when flattened, will make a wrapper. When you have made 100,000 or so, they all come out the same size.

While you are doing that you can practice saying jiaozi. Here are some sounds to help you:

SOUND ONE

SOUND TWO

SOUND THREE












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