4 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:don't think I can find fruit pierogis in this area--I've never seen or heard of them either, but they sound delicious.
1) Pierogis are basically the same as the Chinese 饺子 (jiǎo zi) 🥟 and are probably derived from them.
2) In summer 1997, I was in Beijing and visited a jiaozi restaurant near Beijing Zoo. This place boasted a menu of 50+ possible jiaozi. I forget exactly how many. There were the usual meat or fish or other seafood types, but also less common meats such as venison, horse, donkey, yak, camel etc. Then the vegetable jiaozi containing your choice from a list of every vegetable known to China, which is a lot.
There was also a list of fruit jiaozi, again of most varieties you could think of.
Most memorable was the ice cream jiaozi again n enough flavours to shame an Italian gelateria.
So, if it's good enough for one culture, I vote it's good enough for all.
I still prefer the more traditional Chinese types, though.
Donkey Jiaozi
