Newfoundland foods: Dough boy/ dumplings

Dough boy, or also known as dumplings, and yellow slip pea soup.

Dough boys are balls of steamed dough mixture of flour, baking soda, salt and water. These dough lumps are usually served with a meal of soup, because the dough mixture is cooked by the steam as it floats on top of the of soup. The taste and texture reminds be a lot of the Mandarin man tou buns (饅頭), which are plain in taste, but fluffy in texture.