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DubiousMike

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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #70 on: July 08, 2015, 08:11:10 PM »
I hear empress pavilion has reopened and am supposed to be eating there before a dodger game in a couple of weeks.  Has anyone eaten there since it closed?
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #71 on: July 08, 2015, 08:21:38 PM »
Quote from: DubiousMike on July 08, 2015, 08:11:10 PM
I hear empress pavilion has reopened and am supposed to be eating there before a dodger game in a couple of weeks.  Has anyone eaten there since it closed?
Haven't eaten there in years and it was always meh. Unless they got new cooks, I don't see the taste changing.

I wonder if it has a new owner. I think the "previous" one went broke and couldn't pay employees for months.
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #72 on: July 08, 2015, 11:23:41 PM »
only chinese resto I keep hoping will reopen is the muslim chinese one in pasadena that burned. lamb, shao bing, dumplings - plus uighur food - I think it was called Tung Lai Shun (and I recall there is one with the same name in Hong Kong, though not that authentic). anyway, all worth driving an hour for, or more cross-town if in greater LA ;-)
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #73 on: July 09, 2015, 04:17:20 AM »
There's this Uighur restaurant I keep meaning to try, hear good things about it. Keeps slipping my mind as I'm rarely in the area.
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #74 on: July 23, 2015, 07:34:17 AM »
Quote from: ohhgourami on July 08, 2015, 08:21:38 PM
Haven't eaten there in years and it was always meh. Unless they got new cooks, I don't see the taste changing.

I wonder if it has a new owner. I think the "previous" one went broke and couldn't pay employees for months.

I ended up visiting the resurrected Empress a couple of days ago with some colleagues.  It was pretty good but certainly no where near the level of DTF.  They do serve XLB now, and I don't think they used to, so the ownership and/or chef must be different.  I'd say it was better than my most recent visit to Atlantic Seafood (where the shrimp were a major let down), but the prices at Empress are also a lot higher.  Interior and bathrooms have been redone and are nice and clean, but it was only about 30% occupied at lunch time.  I suppose we shall see if they can keep it afloat this time.  Supposed to go back with family in early August, so I'll report back on consistency. 
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #75 on: September 04, 2015, 05:52:01 PM »
Found a place here in Houston that serves xiao long bao, E-Tao in the Galleria, and it's within walking distance of the office, as luck would have it.  Took a couple of vendors there today for lunch, and the one fellow was surprised to see it on the menu, since he told us that he and his wife (who is Vietnamese) had been looking everywhere for it and had come to the conclusion that it was not to be had anywhere in the Houston metropolitan area.  He said that he was going to bring his wife back tomorrow.  He'd had it previously only in Shanghai.  Houston representing!

The waiter said that it was their most popular item, which explained the almost exclusive Chinese clientele.

That shit has become almost additive in no time at all.  Thank you for this thread, guys.
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #76 on: September 04, 2015, 07:19:02 PM »
Good XLB is freaking addictive! This is what happens when I go with friends.

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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #77 on: September 04, 2015, 09:03:48 PM »
LOL!

But I am pretty sure what they are "training" with are baoze - bigger, heftier and doughy

Also, Shifu means Master. So "Master Shifu" is redundant.

There - my moment of pedantry came and went...

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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #78 on: September 04, 2015, 09:20:34 PM »
Quote from: 1melomaniac on September 04, 2015, 09:03:48 PM
LOL!

But I am pretty sure what they are "training" with are baoze - bigger, heftier and doughy

Also, Shifu means Master. So "Master Shifu" is redundant.

There - my moment of pedantry came and went...

Actually don't think so. They are just small animals and I don't think they draw cartoons to scale. In the film they call them dumplings if I recall. Boaze are definitely not like XLB or dumplings at all. And you cannot eat a char-siu baoze in one bite let alone put 10 of them in your mouth if you are small rodent or even human sized.

Yeah, like THE Alhambra which is like saying The The Hambra. Look at what white people did to maps and city names. No surprise.   
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Re: Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
« Reply #79 on: September 04, 2015, 09:45:41 PM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on September 04, 2015, 07:19:02 PM
Good XLB is freaking addictive! This is what happens when I go with friends.

Ha!  You're not too far wrong.  We had to order up 3 steam baskets full before we stopped casting covetous glances at each other.
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