0 a small Chinese or Japanese dumpling (= a small piece of dough filled with meat or fish) cooked in steam:
The chicken was a little overcooked, but the shumai were very good.
crab shumai
We started out with the normal shumai (steamed pork and shrimp dumplings).
There are many regional varieties of shumai in China, such as the Huhhot version, the Cantonese version and the version from the Jiangnan region.
The teriyaki chicken my friend got in her bento box was very good but she didn't love her shumai.
