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Review: Trader Joe’s Thai Vegetable Gyoza

March 14, 2013 by ChrissyJee 6 Comments

Review: Trader Joe's Thai Vegetable GyozaThough I prefer that my family eats the dumplings I make from scratch, sometimes I don’t have time and my homemade stock in the freezer is gone so I like to have some store-bought dumplings as backup.  Everytime I’m at a grocery store, I checkout their frozen dumpling selection for something to try.  I wanted to share my thoughts with you on this blog.  This is my personal criteria and preference for dumplings and I base all my judgement on these traits:

  • Filling: great flavor, nice texture, lots of vegetables
  • Skin: thin!  It’s the wrapper for all the delicious goodness inside.

My first review will be on Trader Joe’s Thai Vegetable Gyoza.  Gyoza is the japanese word for dumpling.
Review: Trader Joe's Thai Vegetable GyozaIn looking at the ingredients list, I really liked there are no preservatives and artificial flavoring.

Review: Trader Joe's Thai Vegetable GyozaThe dumplings are good size with flat bottoms and closed tight.

Review: Trader Joe's Thai Vegetable GyozaI pan fried the dumpling and followed the instructions to first sear the bottom and then add water to steam cook.

Review: Trader Joe's Thai Vegetable GyozaThe bottoms seared nicely.

Review: Trader Joe's Thai Vegetable GyozaThe filling:

  • strong onion and ginger taste that over-powered any vegetable taste.  I personally like to taste vegetables in a vegetable dumpling.
  • very mushy.  I like some texture in the filling.

The skin:

  • thin, just the way I like it.

Summary: I really liked that there are no preservatives and artificial flavoring and the thin skin.  The filling was too onion-y for me and because of this, I will not be buying these for my emergency reserves.

Mama on a mission to find the best store-bought dumpling,
Chrissy xoxo

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