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| - We ordered a savoury sticky rice roll, stir fried sticky rice cakes, beef brisket noodle in soup, pan fried XLB (only $3.99 for first order), pan fried dumplings, steamed soup filled dumplings, and steamed silk skinned XLB (crab & pork only $3.99 for first order).
The savoury sticky rice roll, stir fried sticky rice cakes, beef brisket noodle in soup, and pan fried dumplings were pretty standard. They tasted like how they would taste at any other Shanghainese restaurant. I have to say that the stir fried sticky rice cakes had good 'wok hay' though.
What stood out to me here were the XLB (xiao long bao, or steamed soup dumplings). The skin of the steamed dumplings were the thinnest from any Shanghainese restaurant in the GTA. Mind you, I haven't been to all of the Shanghainese restaurants in the GTA either. So some of you may say, that there's thinner skinned dumplings out there. I wasn't able to really tell the difference in the filling from the normal pork one with the crab and pork. So next time I go, I would just get the normal pork ones (they were the ones with the thinnest skin anyways). The pan fried XLB was interesting, I've never had those before. They were like a cross between the pan fried dumpling and the steamed soup dumpling. The filling wasn't as juicy/soupy as the normal steamed soup dumplings.
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