The best dumplings: Xiao Long Bao 🥟
What’s the most delicious thing I’ve eaten in Singapore? Of course, it’s the dumplings from Din Tai Fung (with 20 restaurants on the island), which are called Xiao Long Bao! Technically, this restaurant chain isn’t Singaporean, but Taiwanese (where it boasts a Michelin star).
Xiao Long Bao is more similar to tail-less Georgian Khinkali than to dumplings. They’re not frozen, but made right before cooking. They’re steamed in wooden baskets and served in the same. Inside the dumplings is a delicious hot soup. Fillings vary: pork, chicken, crab, even truffles. Imagine small Khinkali with the thinnest dough, soup inside, just melting in your mouth. 😋
These dumplings are eaten with vinegar and finely chopped ginger. (I had to move to Singapore to eat dumplings with vinegar…) The main downside of local restaurants: they don’t serve vodka with xiao long bao.
You can try Xiao Long Bao not only at Din Tai Fung restaurants, they’re served in other Chinese restaurants, but they come out perfect in these particular ones.
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