we believe, pearl dumplings are very young according to legend, they appeared in 1900, when the qiexi empress beijing during the foreign intervention uprising, the qixi had a terrible appetite and she wanted to a dish that the chef has never tried knew that she was very fond of chicken and duck, so they made very small dumplings stuffed with chicken, and the empress tried a new dish with duck broth, and she really liked it. microscopic dumplings are boiled. just a couple of minutes, and then, together with the broth, they are poured into bowls and ladles, having received their portion of pearls.