How to say Chinese food 'Jaozi' in English?

"饺子" is special food for Spring Festival ，the most widely celebrated holiday in China. Nowadays, more and more foreign people go to China and love this Chinese food. So, people want to know how to say it in English?

Some people just call it 'Jao'zi' , it has same pronunciation with the chinese name. Many Chinese foods translate into English in this way, such as "Tofu". In fact, native English speaker know what does "tofu" mean.

Some people have a opinion that "饺子" should be called "chinese dumpling". Here are some words from wikipedia:

The jiaozi is a Chinese dumpling which consists of minced meat and chopped vegetables wrapped into a piece of dough. Popular meat fillings include ground pork, ground beef, ground chicken, ground lamb, shrimp, and even fish. Popular mixings are pork with Chinese cabbage, lamb with spring onion, leeks with eggs, etc. Jiaozi are usually boiled or steamed. Jiaozi is a traditional dish for Chinese New Year's Eve. Family members would get together to make dumplings.

If they are shallow fried, they are called guotie or potstickers. Compared to wontons (dumplings served boiled in a soup), jiaozi have a thicker skin and are longer, wontons also are traditionaly wraped in rectangular dough while jiaozi are wraped in round dough. Also jiaozi has different wrappings and ways to wrap.

Chinese cuisine includes sweet dumplings. Also commonly found are tangyuan. These are smaller dumplings made with glutinous rice flour and filled with very sweet sesame, peanut or red bean paste. There are also other kinds of dumplings such as Har Kao, Siew Mai, Small Cage-Steamed Bun, Pork Bun and Crystal Dumpling.

See also: dim sum for descriptions of several other kinds of dumplings such as gau and taro root dumplings.

An interesting variation on Chinese dumplings, known as dim sims can be found in Australia.

In Japan, people say"gyōza", the Japanese pronunciation of "饺子"。
The korean name of this food is mandu, literary derived from Chinese steamed bread mantou (饅頭), but it is actually more like jiaozi.