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It was very interesting to mix up the dough with chopsticks, but in the end I like it better than using some of the tools back home. Globs of dough and flour did not get stuck to the chopsticks.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n After mixing up the dough, I kneaded it, and then we let it sit for an hour. While the dough was resting, we prepared the filling. My boys chopped the vegetables. The green onion and a leafy, green, chard like vegetable, were boiled a little bit, and then the water was squeezed out, and they were set aside. I chopped up the cabbage, which was then heavily salted. I mixed and rubbed the salt into the cabbage with my hands, and it started to let off some water. When Miho deemed it salted enough, her boys helped me squeeze the water out of the cabbage, and we mixed the cabbage with the other vegetables.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When the vegetables were prepared, Mom mixed the vegetables with the pork. When the filling was done, we started to wrap the gyoza with the premade wrappers (the homemade was still sitting). Miho showed us how to wet and pucker the wrappers, so they stayed shut. You can see from our plates which of us pays the most attention to detail. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When the homemade dough was ready, Mom rolled it out super thin, and cut out large circles. These gyoza were much bigger than the ones made with the premade wrappers, but, hey! that just means more room for the filling! Miho showed Elias and I how to cook the gyoza, while Bayus played with Jin and Rei.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We had some trouble with the hot oil popping onto us, but by the last batch, we were experts!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We made almost 100 gyoza total! When we had finished the gyoza, we started the yakisoba. Miho had already prepared the vegetables, so all we had to do was cook it. It was, hands down, the best yakisoba we have ever had.\u00a0Onion, carrot, mushroom, sausage, bell pepper, cabbage, bean sprouts, and pickled ginger, all mixed together with the yakisoba noodles! O. M. Goodness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After dinner, Miho brought out a cake that she had made earlier. It was green tea flavored, with slices of banana in the filling. It was\u00a0a perfect end to a perfect meal! Elias said that it was the best cake he had ever had, and he doesn’t usually like cake. The cake even had a sweet message on top, made out of chocolate!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rei’s favorite part was the chocolate.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n