Buddhist Dumplings - Nutrition?

msarro

I tend to shop a lot at "ethnic" markets, namely a Chinese Market, and a Lebanese market. At the Chinese market they have these dumplings called "Vegetable Dumplings." Inside is tofu, cabbage, carrot, onion, some soy sauce. They're wrapped with a normal dim sum style dough shell. I boil them. Now it says a serving is 8, but since its an imported food at a small market, there is no nutritional information. I can't see how bad this would be for me considering its kind of hard to miss with those ingredients, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea? I've come up empty handed. I'd post the company name but alas it is in Chinese which I cannot read.

msarro

I tend to shop a lot at "ethnic" markets, namely a Chinese Market, and a Lebanese market. At the Chinese market they have these dumplings called "Vegetable Dumplings." Inside is tofu, cabbage, carrot, onion, some soy sauce. They're wrapped with a normal dim sum style dough shell. I boil them. Now it says a serving is 8, but since its an imported food at a small market, there is no nutritional information. I can't see how bad this would be for me considering its kind of hard to miss with those ingredients, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea? I've come up empty handed. I'd post the company name but alas it is in Chinese which I cannot read.

MisoSoup79

ugh... that sucks. i hate when that happens, but it wouldn't stop me from eating it!

the best thing you could probably do, is find the dim sum dough somewhere else to get the nutritional info. then add the nutritional info for the tofu (best guess-timation). The cabbage, carrot and onion have few calories and I'm assuming the dumplings are fairly small if 8 is a serving. If you can get a rough estimate for the dough and the tofu (because tofu is kind of calorie dense) then you should get a pretty close tally of your calories. that's what i'd do. :flowerforyou: