May 12, 2021
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YUMMY DUMPLINGS
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Heather LeDuc
Heather LeDuc is a Whitehorse-based Writer.
Anne Huang-Power is a dumpling mastermind. See Pg 3. PHOTO: GBP Creative
Anne’s Dumplings took off in the last year
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nne Huang-Power can’t keep up with the demand for her dumplings. More often than not, half an hour after she’s opened pre-orders on the website for Anne’s Dumplings, she’s sold out. When she participated in the Fireweed Market’s 12 Days of Christmas last year, market-goers were queueing up for her perfectly-formed morsels of dough and filling. For Huang-Power, the overwhelming response to her dumplings, or “dumps” as she fondly calls them, caught her by surprise. “I still get nervous when people buy them,” she says. “I know they’re delicious. Even though I know they’re good, I just hope everyone enjoys them. Because I put a lot of work into them, everything is handmade … it connects me to my family and to my heritage. It’s a joyful thing for me so I hope people feel joy and happiness when they eat them.” Each dumpling is painstakingly folded and crimped by HuangPower. They are small, uniform and resemble little fish, which are symbols of luck and plenty. Huang-Power says she learned her unique crimping style, which she calls the “mermaid crimp,” from her paternal cousins in China. Born in China, Huang-Power moved with her family to England when she was four. On big holi-
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Dreary and Izzy .......................2 Dumplings ..............................3 Youth Consent Programing .........5 Cheese Making .........................8 Didee Didoo .......................... 11 Seasonal Recipes ................... 12 Driving the Dempster pt 1 ........ 17
Events Whitehorse Listings ................ 6 Community Listings .............. 14 Highlights .......................... 15 Active Listings .................... 16
PHOTOS: GBP Creative
Anne Huang-Power is the dumpling master days, such as the Lunar New Year, the family gathers around the table and makes dumplings. Each family has their own recipe and own way of folding the dough. As much as dumplings are an integral part of her familial ties and Chinese heritage, her new business is a far cry from her previous career. For 12 years, HuangPower worked in the fashion in-
dustry as a celebrity marketer and influencer. She started her career in London, then moved to Toronto four years ago to be with her husband-to-be Ben Power, who co-owns Solvest Inc., a solar energy company in Whitehorse. Once in Canada, Huang-Power continued working in the fashion industry. She flew back to London for Fashion Week, and to visit
with her family at the same time. However, it was tough for her husband to run Solvest from Toronto and the couple eventually made the move to the Yukon in September, 2019. Huang-Power initially kept working freelance in fashion, but when the pandemic hit, the botcont’d on page 4 ...
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