Best "wrap" album: Won-ton clan

This sleek EP takes those wonton wrappers out of the fridge and onto your plates.

Source: Alan Benson

Crisp it real good

Wonton wrappers, julienned and deep-fried until crisp are calling in this very easy chicken salad. While you can roast your chook, don’t be afraid to duck into your local Chinese barbecue kitchen and pick up a chicken to make things even easier.

Chinese New Year chicken and pomelo salad with a sweet plum dressing Source: Petrina Tinslay

Get your snack on

These steamed pork and sticky rice dumplings are eagerly scoffed for breakfast or as a quick snack. They're slightly fiddly – but rewarding – to make so don’t worry if yours aren’t as perfectly shaped as one from a Shanghai vendor. They’ll still taste fantastic!

Sticky rice dumplings Source: China Squirrel

Get rich or slurp tryin'

This is the Filipino answer to wonton soup and is designed for the serious meat lover, as it contains prawn, pork, chicken, ham and a soft boiled egg as well.

Filipino wonton soup

Hoi An holla

Here’s an approximation of delicious noodle soup from the quaint town of Hoi An in Central Vietnam. Some cooks add roasted peanuts or fried pork skin and you can use whatever herbs you prefer and sit back and watch the crisp wonton absorb that broth.

Hoi An noodles Source: Sharyn Cairns

Humble five-spice

Scented with ginger and Chinese five spice, these deep-fried dumplings come to life with the addition of the homemade sweet chilli sauce. The sauce recipe is really easy and makes a great dipping sauce for any Asian dumplings.

Pork and Chinese five spice dumplings with homemade sweet chilli sauce Source: Alan Benson

Grandmaster flash-fry

Sashimi salads are some of the most popular items at casual and modern izakayas around Japan and all over the world. The tender fish and fresh vegetables are perfectly offset by crispy shreds of wonton in this superb recipe.

Sashimi salad Source: Steve Brown/ Hachette Australia

Shiitake state of mind

Prawn and mushroom wontons - check. Beautiful clear soup - check. Serve a small bowl as an entrée or a generous bowl for a soul-warming meal and you can add as much heat as you wish.

Prawn and mushroom wonton soup with water spinach Source: Petrina Tinslay

99 problems but these cups ain't one

These pastry shells are made using a special mould called a pie tee. As the moulds are difficult to find in Australia, this recipe substitutes for wonton wrappers that are baked in a mini-muffin pan to mould them to size - snacking genius!

Nuthin' but a gow gee thang'

This Afghani dumpling recipe involves filling gow gee wrappers (or you can make your pastry) with a meat and onion mixture, steaming them, then serving them with a split pea sauce and garlic yoghurt. This is comfort food 101 over here.

Afghan dumplings (mantoo)