Reknown
Last week at Beijing-Shanghai Delicacies at the Richmond Public Market:
"Do you have XiaoLong Bao?"
"No."
"I heard I could get them here."
"We used to, but not anymore."
"That's too bad. On the web, dozens and dozens of people had said that you guys had the best XiaoLong Bao anywhere outside Shanghai."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Someone wrote about us on the web?"
I didn't leave too disappointed, however, as the TianJin style stall next door still makes XiaoLong Bao, and the Beijing-Shanghai place has some really interesting fish and pork dumplings. The way they're set up, you can order something different at each stall to get a good variety, and collect them all from their respective cooks as they are ready.
Next visit: fried mutton dumplings at the XiAn style muslim Chinese stall.
Or perhaps the fried crabs at the GuangDong stall.
Or. . . .
"Do you have XiaoLong Bao?"
"No."
"I heard I could get them here."
"We used to, but not anymore."
"That's too bad. On the web, dozens and dozens of people had said that you guys had the best XiaoLong Bao anywhere outside Shanghai."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Someone wrote about us on the web?"
I didn't leave too disappointed, however, as the TianJin style stall next door still makes XiaoLong Bao, and the Beijing-Shanghai place has some really interesting fish and pork dumplings. The way they're set up, you can order something different at each stall to get a good variety, and collect them all from their respective cooks as they are ready.
Next visit: fried mutton dumplings at the XiAn style muslim Chinese stall.
Or perhaps the fried crabs at the GuangDong stall.
Or. . . .