street treats, small eats and other comfort foods of Shanghai and beyond
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Shanghai on Mar 10th, 2007
My town, San Francisco, managed to get National Landmark Status declared for its cable cars, making them the only National Landmark on wheels. If San Francisco had invented xiaolongbao, I’d be the first in line lobbying for National Landmark Status for those, too: imagine being able to pop a National Landmark into your mouth!
The town […]
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Shanghai on Feb 24th, 2007
From China Daily, January 11, 2007:
Disappointed xiao long bao aficionados will find that the venerable Jia Jia Tang Bao is no longer located at Henan Nan Lu and Wenmiao Lu, where it stood for many years, dishing out near-perfect soup dumplings to long lines of lunch patrons before the neighborhood was demolished.Happily, […]
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Shanghai on Jun 5th, 2006
(Originally posted on chowhound.com June 5, 2006)
On a recent whirlwind visit to Shanghai I felt duty-bound to survey the state of Xiaolong bao in its native habitat as best I could in the time I had. I hit perhaps 10 places ranging from XLB’s cradle at Cheng Huang Miao (disappointing) to the Pudong Airport food […]
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Diaspora on Apr 10th, 2006
(Originally posted on chowhound.com on April 10, 2006)
Sloppy XLB at Xiao Loong Restaurant
April 7 is Xiaolong Bao Day, by my own proclamation, commemorating my 1992 xiaolong bao epiphany at the very Shrine of Xiaolong Bao in Shanghai. A planned trip to Shanghai for early April to got postponed, so I decided to make a Xiaolong […]
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Shanghai on Apr 6th, 2004
(To Be Written)