Posted in Chinese, London, Taiwan, Taiwanese, dim sum, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jun 19th, 2009
[UPDATE - October 2009: I've returned to Leong's Legend for dim sum and it's turning into a reliable Chinatown dim sum spot for me. Apart from more xiao long bao (such good value and very soupy), I again ordered the Taiwan mini kebab with pork. It's very filling and most delicious. The pork belly rice [...]
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Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, Shanghai, Taipei, Taiwan, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 12th, 2008
This is the eleventh in a series of Postcards from the recent Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing traveleating trip. Rather than writing up each food experience in separate posts, which would have taken me up to Christmas, I thought it would be more fun to outline the trip in diary form, to include travel and [...]
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I’m writing this as a short companion piece to my post on How To Eat Xiao Long Bao or Shanghai Dumplings. If you’re not already a die-hard fan of xiao long bao, you’ll be converted once you’ve tried them. Then you’ll be on the never-ending quest to find the perfect xiao long bao…
Xiao long bao [...]
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Posted in Chinese, Taipei, Taiwan, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Jun 14th, 2006
Din Tai Fung’s xiao long bao (Shanghai steamed soup dumplings) are considered to be the best in the world, and the Taiwanese restaurant chain has many branches world-wide, including Beijing, Shanghai (of course), Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and the US.
During our five day stay in Taipei, my friend and I walked past one branch of [...]
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