One of my favorite Shanghainese breakfast items is the rice roll, which I refer to as “fan tuan” (飯糰) in Chinese. It’s really hard to find good ones in SF because no place ever seems to make it such that all the ingredients being used are freshly cooked. Sometimes, the rice will be hard, or [...]
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I know that Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) is known for the soup dumplings (小籠包), but another thing that they really make well that I’ve never had anywhere else before is their taro and red bean dumplings (芋頭小籠包/豆沙小籠包), and even mores specifically, their taro ones because they don’t serve those in the Din Tai Fung in [...]
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The newest soup dumpling (小籠包) joint to hit Monterey Park is Mama’s Lu. Their soup dumplings have thin skin and is packed with juicy meat … and a lot of soup. The meat is a bit too mushy for my liking, but overall, it’s well-made and pretty good. People rave about their green onion pancake [...]
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My most favorite place to eat soup dumplings (小籠包) is Dean Sin World (點心世界) in Monterey Park. I wouldn’t say it’s the best I’ve had, but they are really good and really cheap (on average, every item is under $5), along with everything else they serve. Everything is made from scratch, from their wrappers to [...]
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If there’s one place that I can always count on for consistent, soupy, thin-skinned soup dumplings (小籠包), it’s Din Tai Fung. I eat at Din Tai Fung in Arcadia every year as part of my annual Christmas tradition. (I made it official last year since it was my third Christmas in a row.) Aside from [...]
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