... are both from China but from different regions of China. The choices of each ingredient and seasoning all have historical, geographical or technological reason. Starting with the main ingredient of the filling, meat, both dumplings and wontons choose pork because of history. Pigs were domesticated by the Chinese ... northern blood in me. Scientifically, people eat dumplings with vinegar because there is always much more meat than vegetables in dumplings and vinegar can help people digest the meat. For wontons, there is not that much meat inside so it may be too sour to dip into vinegar. ...

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