Baikal Steam Stall · Buryat Dumpling
Pozy (Buuzy)
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Each dumpling is deliberately left with a small open pinhole at the top — not sealed shut like a Georgian khinkali — so you can sip the hot broth pooled inside before biting in.
Pozy, also called buuzy, are large steamed dumplings of minced meat and onion wrapped in dough and pleated into a dome with an open top, served with the broth still trapped inside. Around Lake Baikal and Buryatia, small steam-stall cafes sell them a few at a time, eaten by hand.
Why it's made this way: Pozy come from the Buryat people, a Mongolic ethnic group native to the Baikal region, and are a version of Mongolian buuz, whose name traces to Chinese baozi — steamed, unlike the boiled dumplings found further west in Russia.
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