One of the region’s most famous dishes, xiaolongbao (or soup dumplings), can be spotted streetside in towers of steaming bamboo baskets. The thin dumpling wrapper encases minced pork and liquified pork gelatin. To eat, you dip the dumpling in rice vinegar steeped with ginger, then slurp out the piping hot pork soup carefully before you

Hungry to improve your Chinese vocabulary, but don’t know where to dig in? Welcome to our weekly Foodie Flashcard series. Follow along, study these morsels of knowledge, then dig in at your local restaurant to fully digest the information. What is it: One of the region’s most famous dishes, xiaolongbao (or soup dumplings), can be

The word is out on our popular new Dumpling Delights food tour! We’ve been converting groups of travelers to the ways of the Shanghai soup dumplings, and along the way sampling fried dumplings, delicious boiled dumplings from NE China, including some amazing cilantro (coriander for you Aussies) filled ones, and much more. It’s hard to

According to CNNGo, Shanghai is the fifth best vacation destination for foodies. And while we’re not going to argue with them about their top selection of London (for its offal?! I mean, we love our Weird Meat from tip to tail too too, but c’mon! Very few people get on a plane for entrails.) And the reason

Xiaolongbao (or XLBs to those in the know) are southern China’s answer to the north’s delicious ji?ozi and a source of incessant in-fighting among Shanghai’s fiercest foodies.