On another cooking note, for my birthday weekend I wanted to bring a little bit of home to my Ecuadorian house. I found the ONLY Chinese market in all of Quito which coincidentally had a few pre-made dumping skin wrappers. My host mom had been asking me about the different types of Asian food, since there are little to no Asians here, and the Chinese food I’ve tried is not great. So I taught my host family how to make these “little Chinese empanadas” as they call them. My host mom was super excited because she hadn’t even made regular empanadas in her house. They really liked them and we topped them off with my host dad’s homemade ají hot sauce and they were great! Even my sick little host sister was asking for more! 
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