Early Look: 'Cheese Potstickers', a rare recipe (Patreon)

So... we have an increasingly problematic collection of old Chinese cookbooks.

The vast majority of them are from 70s, 80s, and 90s. And flipping through them, it really impresses on you just how different Chinese food was back then. While there's certainly a hunk of the classic dishes that we know and love... there's also a whole lot that's different, or that's missing. In our veneration of tradition, sometimes we forget just how dynamic Chinese cuisine is.

And so in the last year or so we've gotten a real kick out of sharing the older versions of classic dishes like Mapo Tofu or Chongqing Hotpot. But there's also something else that you see again and again, buried in those pages: a whole bunch of random dishes that you've never heard of before.

This is one of those dishes - 'Cheese Potstickers'. It was (from what we can tell) an old school Yunnan banquet dish, and we found recreating the recipe surprisingly easy. It's quite delicious too, and super internationally replicable - it's even a new member in our ongoing "western supermarket club" collection of recipe.

If you guys enjoy these random dives into our old cookbook collection, we'd love to make some more rare dishes :)