. >> for rebecca jordan, making dumplings brings back her fondest childhood memories growing up in china >> when my dad came home from military just spend whole weekend, make all the dumplings all kinds, with the broth, without the broth, pan fried, cold, lunch, dinner >> she came to the u-s 18 years ago for college and stayed, but really missed that taste of home. >> you just crave for you know traditional chinese meal. you can't find it anywhere. >> so she asked her mom to share the recipe that had been passed down from her grandmother. >> she said are you crazy? you work every day. you're training martial arts. it's just too much work. >> but she started practicing pinching her paper thin dough around a mix of pork, spinach, eggs and spices until she'd perfected her grandmother's recipe. >> people from work asked me to make them for their parties, for their families on the weekends. and everybody loved it >> including her mother. >> you know what she told me? oh my god, girl, what did you do? she said this is better than mine. >> so rebecca decided to turn her little piece of chinese