noun
- small dumplings made of thin dough wrapped around a filling of meat, seafood, or vegetables, typically served in soup or fried
Usage: Chinese cuisine
Examples
- The restaurant serves delicious pork wontons in a clear broth.
- She ordered fried wontons as an appetizer.
- The wontons were filled with shrimp and water chestnuts.
- He learned to fold wontons from his grandmother.
- The soup contained six wontons floating in chicken stock.
- Wontons can be steamed, boiled, or deep-fried.