Copping hand is the Sichuan name for wontons.

Copping hand is a famous Sichuan snack. It is made of meat stuffing wrapped in noodle skin, boiled and served with broth, red oil and other seasonings. This snack is tender and delicious, the soup is slightly spicy and fragrant. It is almost the same as dumplings, but the difference is that the wrapping method is different from that of dumplings. Dumplings are wrapped in a round dough, whereas the dumplings are wrapped in a square dough.

There are two ways of saying why wontons are called "copious hands" in the Southwest: the first is that, from the appearance of the "copious hands", it looks like the image of a person copying the hand on the chest. The second theory is that because of the thin skin of the "copied hands", between the copied hands, cooked.

Copy hand

Copy hand that is wonton. With the skin wrapped in meat filling, cooked with broth, red oil and other seasonings can be eaten. This snack is tender and delicious, the soup is slightly spicy and fragrant.

There are some differences with dumplings, mainly in the wrapping methods of copra and dumplings, which are wrapped in round skin, while copra is wrapped in square skin. In addition, there are great differences in the thickness of the skin, the amount of fillings, whether they are served with soup, wrapping methods, the appearance of the finished product, cooking methods, and so on, which are also the specialties of copra.

When the dumplings are wrapped, it can be clearly seen that they have to be folded several times before they are wrapped, while the dumplings can be wrapped in a way that they only need to be pinched to seal the mouth and then put into the pot, and their fillings are also different, the fillings for the dumplings include pork, shrimp, vegetables, etc., but the dumplings are made with only stranded pork.