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| - We decided to try the restaurant, actually only restaurant, in the casino here (the rest are the cafeteria and noodle stand downstairs). We ordered the 5 xiao long baos dish. It's hard to find a decent one here, as in no one has a decent one where the soup stays in the dumpling and there is actually enough soup inside the dumpling to be called a xiao long bao, or else it's just a long bao? The service is really good. The prices range from 12-30 something. We ordered 3 xiao long baos and one mustard green soup.
The baos came out in 5s. Each one colored differently depending on the filling: squid ink with truffle mushrooms was black, red beets, pork (white), yellow crab and salted fish, and spinach green. They were all tasty and unique. Each served in its own big spoon bowl. I call it spoon bowl because it seems to be cooked in it and looks like a spoon BUT you have to use another spoon to scrape it off to eat it. The bottom has a piece of carrot to keep it from sticking to the bowl, versus the traditional lettuce leaf (it didn't work as the bao clung onto the spoon/bowl much like a Kardashian clings to a camera crew). Each were flavored well enough where you do not need to dip it in the soy sauce dipping sauce that accompanied them. You have to use a spoon to dig the Bao off the spoon bowl.
The mustard green soup was tasty but may be a bit different for most American tastes. It has chicken strips, mustard green, century egg (black egg), tofu cubes, and ginger.
I don't know if the casino will be around long enough for you to try their cuisine as the place is not really busy. The bill came out to be $50+ for the soup and 3 orders of baos (dumplings).
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