There are different opinions on the origin of pot stickers. One version is: Legend has it that a Cantonese chef ate fried dumplings in Qingdao by chance and found them delicious, so he took them back to his hometown, improved them, and eventually evolved into today's Muji pot stickers. Another theory is that pot stickers were originally a palace delicacy and became popular among the people in the late Qing Dynasty.