Any Mandarin-speaking cooks (dumpling/jiaozi related question)...?

Question

I'm trying to make "Jiaozi / Shui jiao" and I need to know what kind of flour to use (making it from scratch so no pre-made dumpling skins). Do I use high-gluten flour?

Also, what is "低筋麺粉" ?

Answer 1

The Chinese characters you put there means plain flour.  When preparing the dough for jiao zi wrappers, we mix the flour with cold water (20 degree C) - 2 cups of high-gluten flour + 1 cup of plain flour.  It is the temp. of the water that is important. This dough is good for making noodles or soup jiao zi (boiled ones).  Half of the dough could make around 48 jiao zi.

For the steamed jiao zi, we mix the flour with hot water (70 degree C) - 1 cup of high-gluten flour + 2 cups of plain flour and stir the flour and water together with a wooden stick.

http://food.sz95555.com/food/2006/491/

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

just regular flour