• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Lifestyle Links

Your One Stop Shop for Everything Lifestyle

  • Home
  • Lifestyle
  • DIY
  • Food
  • Health and Fitness
  • Hobbies
  • Travel
  • Contact

No Burns or Mess: How to Properly Eat Soup Dumplings

August 31, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Love authentic Chinese cuisine? If you do, then you’ve doubtless heard of Xiao long bao, or soup dumplings. These steamed delicacies are delicious, and they’re incredibly unique – filled with both pork and broth. When eaten correctly, they’re a culinary delight.

However, when eaten incorrectly, they can spill scalding broth over your lips and chin. It’s both painful and messy. Or, as Thrillist points out, “you’ve got a scalded mouth and wet chin at best (a ruined dumpling and guffawing friends at worst). The good news is that eating Xiao long bao the right way isn’t all that hard. You just need to know a few things.

The Wrong Way

We’ll start with a look at the wrong way to eat these delicious dumplings. As Good Food points out, the wrong way is to pop the dumpling like a pimple. Not only is that messy and crude, it’s gross, too. Not to mention the fact that it’s completely insensitive to Chinese culinary tradition. Imagine being told that the right way to eat a burger was off the floor, or the right way to eat pizza was by liquifying it in a blender first.

You also should not put the entire dumpling in your mouth and eat it in one swallow. They are meant to be savored, not consumed immediately. This isn’t sushi, and it’s not Japan. Chinese culinary traditions are different.

The Right Way

So, how do you eat Xiao long bao the right way? Is there a correct way? You bet there is, and it makes a lot of sense if you just take the time to think about it. Xiao long bao combine the deliciousness of soup with the beauty of a dumpling, and the savory taste of meat. The right way to eat them allows you to experience all these things with every single dumpling.

First, understand that, as Business Insider points out, the beauty of these dumplings is really the soup inside. It’s essentially soup that has been turned into gelatin, and then added to the dumpling. The cooking process liquifies the soup, filling the interior of the dumpling with delightful liquid. However, eat it too soon and you’re going to burn your mouth. Eat it too late and the liquid will have gelatinized once more, and the dumpling skin will have hardened. So, what’s a diner to do?

For that, we turn to Chili House SF. First, you need to wait just a little while for the dumplings to cool slightly. Then, you need to take stock of what you’ve been given in the way of utensils. You should have both chopsticks and a soup spoon. There’s a reason for that – you’re supposed to use both. Gently pick up your dumpling with your chopsticks and place it in the soup spoon. Then, use the spoon to bring the dumpling to your mouth.

Take a small bite from the front of the dumpling, and let the soup fill the spoon. Then, sip the soup while eating the dumpling. It’s that simple.

Filed Under: Food

Previous Post: « Information About Dubai To London Flights
Next Post: Types of Mortgage Brokers You Need to Avoid »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Let’s Be Friends!

RSS
Follow by Email
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter
Tweet

Hi Friends!
I'm Fern and I have a love for travel, beauty, health and flowers! I went to school for nutrition, but wasn't really interested in being a nutritionist. So, I started to bartend and have since I graduated school a year ago.
I love talking to people, traveling and writing on my blog... and bartending allows me to do the things I love.

I can take off for a month to travel abroad and there will never be any shortage of bartending/serving jobs when I get home. I also love that I can work abroad bartending anywhere I want! So, I hope you enjoy my blog and if you have any questions, feel free to email me! :)

This message is only visible to admins.

Problem displaying Facebook posts.
Click to show error

Error: Server configuration issue

Twitter Feed

FernFollow

Fern
fernslifestyleFern@fernslifestyle·
14 Jun 2017

YUM!

epicurious@epicurious

These summer salads only get better overnight: https://t.co/sH3CFSMISF

Reply on Twitter 874790301960982528Retweet on Twitter 8747903019609825281Like on Twitter 8747903019609825281Twitter 874790301960982528
Retweet on TwitterFern Retweeted
laurDIYlauren ✄@laurDIY·
14 Jun 2017

my postmates ignored the giant "DECAF" note I left on my latte order and now I'm like

Reply on Twitter 874788328335212544Retweet on Twitter 874788328335212544254Like on Twitter 8747883283352125443890Twitter 874788328335212544
Load More...

Footer

Copyright © 2023 · Ferns Lifestyle Links