Your guide to dim sum
Often considered a fried “Chinese doughnut” or cruller, this light and airy savoury stick of fried dough is freshly fried and wrapped in warm rice-noodle.
This dish comes in a few variations with an assortment of fillings; from plain, beef, shrimp, this BBQ pork and awesome.
The Xiao Long Bao is classified as a soup dumpling based on technique in wrapping and filling – a mixture of minced pork, scallions, ginger and gelatinized pork soup; the little bundle is steam-cooked.