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Asian Style Italian Wedding Soup: or Asian Chicken Meatballs

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Well hello, there!  I hope you all enjoyed your month of Jewish Holidays.  Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and then Sukkos, and now we're all kind of sick of eating, right? Nah.  Never. But all the same, this Shabbos called for lighter fare and less time in the kitchen, especially since I've had a virus for the past week.  So I decided to keep it REALLY simple and just make a pot of classic chicken soup for dinner. But then, you know me.  I can't just leave it at that.  I had to do SOMETHING interesting with it. While walking through the grocery store contemplating what I'd make, I found myself irked by the price of a chicken these days.  $14?  For a chicken?  That's max 2 meals for us.  But $10 for a 5lb package of frozen ground chicken?  That's a lot more meals.  Bang for your buck, ya know?  So I started formulating ideas. What I landed on was making wontons for the soup.  That idea lasted until I started trying to actually MAKE the wontons about an hou