The first and spookiest offering , '' Dumplings , '' is a shortened version of a feature by the same name from the Hong Kong director Fruit Chan : a former soap opera actress -LRB- Miriam Yeung -RRB- tries to recapture her youth by visiting a back-alley abortionist -LRB- Bai Ling -RRB- who hawks the byproducts of her labor as a rejuvenating remedy .