The most beloved dumpling cuisine around the world, soup dumpling, also known as xiaolongbao is a delicate dumpling with thin wrappers with broth gelatin and juicy meat fillings. Tasted more like a steamed dumpling, soup dumpling looks like a minimized steamed bun. Unlike steamed buns, soup dumplings are made from unleavened dough. The proportion of steamed bun’s filling is even to the dough while the filling of soup dumpling is relatively more than its skin. As the king of dim sum, soup dumpling is famous for its flavorful soup filling and fragile skin. The broth gelatin, melted by the heat while steaming, becomes the soup of soup dumpling. That’s why it received the name soup dumpling. Eating soup dumpling is not easy. Since the soup inside soup dumpling is hot, you can’t swallow the whole dumpling in a bite without burning your tongue. To cool down the soup, you have to bite a hole on the dumpling while keeping all the soup inside.
