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Hakata tetsunabe gyoza is the iron-pan dumpling format. Bite-sized gyoza are packed in a circular cast-iron pan and pan-fried crisp on all sides, then served in the pan with vinegar and karashi mustard.
Tetsunabe gyoza was codified at Hakata Gion Tetsunabe in Hakata's Gion district in the postwar period. The form is named for the cast-iron tetsunabe pan: small thin-skinned dumplings packed tightly in a circle, pan-fried in one pour, served in the pan still sizzling. The Hakata gyoza is smaller and thinner-skinned than the Tokyo or Osaka norm, and the pan is the dish: you eat directly from it with chopsticks. Today the format runs across many Hakata izakaya, but the Gion Tetsunabe original remains the canonical version.
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