Vancouver’s Golden Dumpling Cook Off is back for a second year, joining forces with the Chinatown Festival to serve up the savoury morsels street-side. In true cook-off style, traditional Chinese restaurants will steam up the classics while the city’s hippest hotspots will plate fresh takes on the filling-and-wrapper format. An expert panel of judges will taste their way through entries from the 20 restaurants battling to fill, wrap, steam and fry their way to the top. The victorious challenger wins full bragging rights and claims the legendary Golden Dumpling trophy.
Festival-goers won’t want to miss the Dumpling Derby, when prizes are awarded to hungry competitors who duke it out for dumpling domination in a deliciously vicious eating contest. During separate men’s and women’s heats of two suspenseful minutes each, eight men and eight women gulp down dozens of dumplings. The winner of each category is declared the Chinatown Dumpling Eating Champion, and both take home a coveted prize.
The dumplings go down Aug. 10 from noon to 5pm, rain or shine, on the 100 block of Keefer Street in Chinatown. Proceeds from the cook-off go to the The Chinese Elders Community Kitchen, a program of the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre. Each week a group of Chinese Elders get together to cook and share a meal in a safe space. The $30 passports can be bought at Eventbrinte.ca.
