3 xiao chinese Recipes

water, water (may need more), chicken parts (wings, backs , and necks), chinese-style cured smoked ham or 2 1/2 oz smithfield ham, cut into 4 slices, green onion , rough chopped (white parts only), peeled fresh ginger (1 inch diameter 1/2 inch thick), dried shiitake mushroom, garlic clove, flattened, soy sauce, shaoxing wine, unflavored gelatin, ground pork, uncooked shrimp, peeled deveined and finely chopped, green onion, minced (white parts only ), sugar, soy sauce, garlic clove, minced, salt, ground black pepper, peeled fresh ginger, finely grated, shaoxing wine, sesame oil, dumpling wrappers (3 inch square or round), head napa cabbage, leaves separated, black vinegar, soy sauce, very thin matchstick-size strips peeled fresh ginger

potato starch or cornstarch mixed with 1/2 cup water, salt, pork spareribs , cut crosswise into 2-inch pieces by butcher, peanut oil, dried hot red pepper flakes , coarsely ground in a spice grinder, chinese chile bean sauce or paste, dried facing heaven chiles (1-inch bell-shaped hot red chiles) or 3 (2-inch-long) dried hot red chiles, chinese rice wine (preferably shaoxing) or medium-dry sherry, sesame seeds, sugar, asian sesame oil, chile oil containing sesame oil (such as chiu chow chili oil from lee kum kee)