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| - This is a great spot for xiao long bao, aka soup dumplings. I personally prefer the regular pork dumpling to the pork/crab mix, but that's just me. For the uninitiated, these are large dumplings filled with soup. The way to eat them properly is to lift one from the top using mini tongs or your fingers (so as not to puncture the dumpling) and place it on your spoon, then bite off the top, slurp a little soup out, dash some vinegar into the dumpling, slurp a little more soup and then eat the entire dumpling. Sounds involving, I know, but you don't just wanna shove these things in your mouth and chew, or hot soup is liable to explode onto your dining companion (been there, done that lol #whitechick).
We also tried the peanut noodles...which is a whole whack of thick, chewy noodles swimming in a rich peanut soup; and the garlic pea shoots, which tasted really fresh. Both were yummy in their own right, but the xiao long bao won the day.
Re: the service, I once read a Yelp review written by an Asian chick that said "typical Chinese service...they drop off your food and they never come back" which 100% fits the bill in this place. Sorry if that sounds totally racist (no harm nor offence intended!) but remember, she wrote it, I didn't :)
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