Another Vote for Jia Jia
Sep 5th, 2007 by Gary Soup
“Pane” (Colleen) on recommendations for me and the Erica mentioned in her post, just reported this on Chowhound.com:
With some input from Gary Soup and reports from Erica, I drew up a list of chow-ish places to visit on a trip to Beijing and Shanghai last week. I ended up hitting quite a few of the recommended stops, as well as others I happened by or heard reports of through other venues…. Jia Jia Tang Bao. The best xlb I’ve ever had. I ordered crab dumplings as well as pork and leek dumplings and favored the pork. No English spoken, but they have a scrap of paper with English translations you can point to.
The photo atop this post is by her. Twelve dumplings, as I remember, with the vinegar dish in the long, but it looks like they’ve taken to having the customer filling the dish himself.
If the Top [chow]Dog himself hadn’t recently kicked me off theboards, I’d raise a virtual glass of Reeb to Colleen in Jia Jia Tang Bao brotherhood and ask her if it’s still RMB 8 for the steamer.
thanks for your rec. i did jia jia, dintaifung, and nan xiang all in one day, and jia jia was the best. even better was the fact that i was the tourist.