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