Xiaolongbao!

How can Fat Yu write about Shanghai food for so long and not have write about xiaolongbao?!  Xiaolongbao maybe most famous Shanghai dish in the world!  Many of the people call them dumpling, but real Shanghai people know they are not dumpling, they are baozi!  But is very close to jiaozi, so Fat Yu forgive laowai who make mistake!

Many, many places in Shanghai sell xiaolongbao!  This place probably most famous, but very expensive!  (And also from Taiwan!  Aiya!)  So even though xiaolongbao very good, Fat Yu only go when laowai pay for him!  This place also very good, and much cheaper!  But always long wait!  And today, Fat Yu too hungry to wait!  So he go to local place!  Can walk from Fat Yu's house and don't have to wait!

Place very clean!  And not too expensive - 8 RMB for 6 baozi!  Fat Yu order two order!  That is 12 xiaolongbao!

These xiaolongbao have very good flavor, but skin too thick!  (Fat Yu has very shame, skins from Taiwan restaurant are the best!  But they also charge 10 times local place!  Too much money!)

Fat Yu eat all the baozi, but on the walk home I still feel hungry!  So I stop by small baozi shop run by local woman!  She make all the xiaolongbao herself!  Even press all the baozi skin by hand!

And xiaolongbao at this shop even cheaper than other one!  8 xiaolongbao for only 5 RMB!  8 xiaolongbao - very auspicious number!  (Eh, but Fat Yu admit xiaolongbao here are smaller than other ones.  And place is not hygiene.)

12 xiaolongbao at first place, 8 xiaolongbao at smaller place - is 20 xiaolongbao!  How can one man eat 20 xiaolongbao?!

How?!  How else...


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