This Guy Is Trying To Eat Every Dumpling In The World

This man is on a mission to eat every dumpling in the world, and teach people about the benefits of cooking together.

Emmanuel Guillemain d’echon wants to start a movement in honor of all the bite-sized pieces of stuffed dough. The author and journalist is documenting his dumpling journey around the world in hopes of bringing people together. His book will be called Ravioli For All.

“By cooking dumplings. You can recreate a sense of community that we are losing, I feel, in our societies, because of everyone having individual preferences or things they can’t eat,” he explained. “Even when not everyone eats the same thing, whenever everyone cooks together, you can make different fillings, you can make different doughs, but everyone is still around the table cooking together. It also helps you feel you’ve achieved something together. It’s really a warm feeling, and I want people to experience that.”

d’echon has eaten all across Europe, Georgia, India, Korea, and China, with a couple more places that he wants to hit. He’s tried dumplings that you probably didn’t know existed. His love of dumplings started at a young age, and he’s found that each place has its own dumpling to learn about.