XiaoLongBao: An American Guide

XiaoLongBao, or soup dumplings, have become one of our favorite dishes here in China. They are a bite full of everything delicious, however, they also are a dish that requires it be eaten a certain way if you don't want 2nd degree burns all over the inside of your mouth. This is *our* guide to eating them.

Step 1: Observe the deliciousness.

Step 2: Carefully remove your dumpling from the steamer basket using your chopsticks and place it onto your spoon.

Step 3: Use the end of a chopstick to gently poke a hole in the dumpling so it can let a bit of the steam from the molten hot soup inside exit the dumpling. 

Step 4: Eat!

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Only recently (like in writing this blog) did I realize that PM and I weren't taught the correct way to eat these buggers. I think we were taught the American Expat way of doing it, which is not the traditional way.

In doing a little research for this post, I came across this wonderful card that describes how to eat them according to one of the most famous XiaoLongBao restaurants in Asia, Din Tai Fung.

Now, I feel we must go eat them again so that we can do it the correct way and not look like fools!