does anyone else get annoyed by food stuff like this? do the japanese really think people during the renaissance were eating barely altered slop? i think the dumpling is probably one the single simplest and earliest foods we even figured out made of flour as a species. these people are braising meat in wine and rosewater, they have smoked sausages, the have CONSOMMÉ AND DRESSED SIDE SALADS, they have super long process artisan shit like bonito and miso somehow. do you really think the flour dumpling, a food you can find a version of in every culture on earth, has escaped them?