CC Loves... Dumpling Daughter!

Darlings, happy Lunar New Year! It's a time for regeneration, reinvention, positivity, and delicious delights! CC is proud to feature female entrepreneur Nadia Liu Spellman, founder of Dumpling Daughter. Nadia created her restaurants and online shop as an ode to the Chinese restaurant her parents opened in the1980s.

Finding inspiration in her mom’s home cooking and family recipes, Ms. Liu Spellman prides herself in offering authentic Chinese flavors, crafted with legacy, to everyone! 

Dumplings & Buns! Dumpling available in Chicken and Cabbage, Pork and Chive, or Classic Vegan Vegetable; Buns available in Roasted Pork or Vegetable. Enjoy steamed or pan seared!

The Cookbook! The recipe that started it all needed to not only be written down but shared with all who craved it! Nadia launched her cookbook with her mother, celebrity chef, Sally Ling in 2022, The Dumpling Daughter Cookbook: Heirloom recipes from our restaurants and home kitchens.
2025 Lunar New Year Celebration! Dumpling Daughter is gifting 300 lucky red envelopes at three restaurant locations, beginning 1/29/25! The first 100 customers will receive a red envelope with filled with mystery prizes including:
- Free packages of dumplings
- Dumpling Daughter plushie toy
- Dumpling Daughter water bottle
- Dumpling Daughter keychain
- Dumpling Daughter signature knitted beanie
- Dumpling Daughter trucker hat
Which of these delicious delights will you be trying?
xoxox,
CC

Quickie Quadrangles

Fall for this tag! Here’s a fun survey I recently received from Fellow Fashionista La Petite Fashionista...

4 Things I Did Today:

1. Ran in the crunchy fall leaves in the park near my house.

2. Made oatmeal with apples and cinnamon – like having pie for breakfast!

3. Listed a bunch of stuff on ebay and craigslist.

4. Polished all my black shoes.
4 Things On My To-Do List:

1. Rake leaves (CC took these tree pics in her neighborhood!)

2. Grill chicken for dinner or pork tenderloin if I’m feeling really motivated!

3. Write a letter to my artist friend Sara in Spain. (A series of her ink blot paintings are pictured at left - so gorgeous!)

4. Get teeth cleaned and whitened!
4 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Gossip Girl, Lipstick Jungle, Dirty Sexy Money, Desperate Housewives and other such TV nonsense! Photos of DSM via starpulse.com.

2. Robust red wine and 70% cocoa dark chocolate, pref. together!

3. My bazillion fashion mag subscriptions, esp. Vogue, Bazaar, Elle & W!

4. Occasion celeb stalking on justjared, imnotobsessed and New York Post Page Six.com.

4 Random Facts about Me:

1. I hardly ever wear makeup, but I always have my nails painted.

2. My parents met in Hong Kong at a tailor shop during the Vietnam War. This is a picture of my mom when she was a Donut Dolly for the Red Cross; yes, that is a gattling gun.
3. I love writing old-fashioned “snail mail” letters or communicating online, but I don’t relish gabbing on the phone (but isn’t that photo at left from M.A.C. Cosmetics alluring?).

4. I have four siblings, all younger, 2 brothers and 2 sisters. My sister Mindy and my bother Bryan are twins.

4 Bloggers that I'm Tagging:
Poeta Fit Non Nascitur
Lenore of Lenorenevermore
Lisa of Leeselooks
La Belette Rouge

Anyone else who wants a self-searching diversion, please consider yourself tagged as well, darling!