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/ˈʃaʊlɒŋbaʊ/ · noun
(Chinese cuisine) A type of dumpling or steamed bun (baozi) associated with eastern China, particularly Nanxiang near Shanghai..
This is Din Tai Fung, the first OC outpost of the Taiwanese-based chain famous for xiaolongbaos (a.k.a. juicy pork dumplings). […] Shanghainese in origin, but perfected in Taiwan by Din Tai Fung’s Chinese founders, xiaolongbaos are bite-sized, soup-filled purses of pork.
Perhaps the dish Shanghai is most famous for, other than its hong shao rou red-cooked pork, is xiaolongbao, a soup dumpling that is hard to pronounce but easy to devour. […] All of the xiaolongbao'''s are wrapped and steamed to order, and customers can watch as the assembly line of cooks prepare them.
Pierogis: perhaps one of the crown jewels of all dumplings, somewhere between ravioli and gyoza, just below xiaolongbaos and empanadas.
Use xiaolongbao when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Xiaolongbao means (Chinese cuisine) A type of dumpling or steamed bun (baozi) associated with eastern China, particularly Nanxiang near Shanghai..
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This is Din Tai Fung, the first OC outpost of the Taiwanese-based chain famous for xiaolongbaos (a.k.a. juicy pork dumplings). […] Shanghainese in origin, but perfected in Taiwan by Din Tai Fung’s Chinese founders, xiaolongbaos are bite-sized, soup-filled purses of pork.
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