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Din Tai Fung xiao long bao
jacal01:
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.
Anaxilus:
Good XLB is freaking addictive! This is what happens when I go with friends.
1melomaniac:
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...
Anaxilus:
--- 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...
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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.
jacal01:
--- 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.
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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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