Shanghai Xiaolongbao roughly is the most famous snack of Shanghai and the local snack representative for its feature of thinner husk, more juice, fresher stuffing and tastier flavor. It is excellent in shape and tasty in flavor. It needs the delicate preparation when boil it. The stuffing generally is the shrimps and crabs. There are 10 dumplings in each little basket.

The husk of Shanghai Xiaolongbao is half transparent; especially it is more vivid when it is just taken out from the little basket. It is still flexible when eaters bite it meanwhile the fresh stuffing comes out.

How to eat Shanghai Xiaolongbao
Firstly bite a small hole and suck the juice, and then dip it with the vinegar and eat it slowly. The juice is the most delicious part of Shanghai Xiaolongbao. The stuffing of Xiaolongbao is the main part. So it is very important to select the materials when people plan to make Xiaolongbao.

How to make Xiaolongbao
The major materials: half kilo of flour and half kilo of meat stuffing
Subsidiary ingredients: Onion and hot soup
Sauces: Salt, oyster sauce, Chicken powder and some monosodium glutamate

Making Procedure:
1. Boiling the flour with boiled water and making it into the flour paste
2. Adding sauces like onions into stuffing and then mixing with hot soup
3. Making the paste into many small pieces of husk and then covering the stuffing with these husks and then braising them in the boiler for 10 minutes or so. It is ok after several minutes.

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