How to Eat Soup Dumplings Like a Pro | Food Skills
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2018
- Eating soup dumplings can feel like a perilous culinary adventure for the uninitiated. Make an amateur mistake-like biting into the dumpling before cooling and slurping out the soup-and you might find yourself splattered in scalding-hot broth. But luckily Sean Tang, owner of Pinch Chinese in Manhattan, is here to school you on the soup dumpling dos and don’ts. From the cooking process behind the restaurant’s thin-skinned xiaolongbao, to different methods for enjoying the dumpling once it’s been steamed, Tang unlocks the keys to one of China’s most beloved culinary exports. Expertly folded, and packed with a rich, flavorful broth, these soup-filled pockets are a must try for dumpling fanatics everywhere.
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There is a magical minute where the soup is just at the perfect, still hot yet not lava temp where you can eat the whole dumpling in a bite without second degree burns, and it is divine.
My fav way so far after trying out all the "ways" is Eddie Huang's. Let it cool in the vinegar ginger tray for a bit and then just pop the whole thing in your mouth. The way the soup fills your mouth is amazing.
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A Chinese guy who opened a dumpling restaurant doesn't even now that "long" (笼) in "xiaolongbao" (小笼包) stands for "basket" and not "dragon"???
Was going to talk about this too. I only ever refer to them as "little dragon bags" ironically, but when you're the owner of a restaurant that specializes in XLB and you don't even know how to properly pronounce the name in its tongue, or translate it effectively, somethings wrong. I would rather First We Feast interview the chefs and have someone translate what they say afterwards (like some of the Japanese restaurant interviews in which they are more comfortable speaking in their own tongue). In case anyone was wondering how it's properly pronounced, it goes something like "| see-ow | l-ohn-g | b-ow |" (with a changing accent [high-low-high pitch] on the first word, a upward accent (low-high) on the second, and a flat accent on the last), there really isn't an "sh" sound, but they teach Americans that way for some reason. It's really the way your tongue gets in the way as you try to pronounce a sound like that which makes it sound like there's a hint of an "sh," but you don't actually explicitly try to pronounce it that way. This is true for all "x" sounds in Chinese pinyin, such as thank you, or "xie xie," I tend to hear people pronounce it as "shie-shie" when it really isn't the way it's supposed to sound. This is important because there is actually an "sh" pinyin which sounds like "sh," and thus has to be phonetically different from "x," since pinyin is really the romanization of the phonetic sounds in Chinese.
Although I'm not that good in Chinese myself, my lessons just stuck with me I guess.
The cool thing about it that you could literally interpret how you wanted to. I always thought it was a small dragon bun.
Eat dumplings like a pro??? How corny lol
seems like a good amount of work to manage to get soup into a dumpling. I love them.
Food skills is actually teaching food skills now, like how to properly eat foods that may be exotic to us westerners :O That's really cool, and a good use of this series! Now I want soup dumplings!
These are so good omgggg, anyone who hasn’t eaten it NEEDS to try it
damn now I’m so hungry.
Those look really good. Definitely need to try this out
The soup dumpling. The culinary world's Swiss army knife.
Love 小籠包 (Japanese style Xiaolongbao)! If I ever go to Shaghai, I'd love to try the real Chinese version.
food skills is becoming my favorite show on this channel
Good video Sean always loved it first we Feast good job
Hmmm these look so good ! I wanna try
Yum I’d love a restaurant like that in my city. Unfortunately, nothing different is welcomed by the industrial citizens of lambton county.
xiao long technically means small basket, as in the bamboo basket that the dumplings are steamed in. basket and dragon sound the same but are spelled differently
nice meme I think he knows his own language
Yep it's 籠(笼） meaning basket/cage, not 龍(龙） meaning dragon.
ItzBecky Thomas he doesn't
nice meme yee
Good catch, came here to point it out too
They look insanely good I need to try soup dumplings ASAP
trader joe’s actually sells some really yummy ones!
@@Camibug Thanks for the tip.
The soup dumplings are so good! The taste of the soup is so satisfying
Why am I subscribed to this channel? Literally, every single time I come, I get incredibly hungry.
Looks delicious!
Au suka bgt dimsum..dan setelah ribuan purnama penasaran dgn xiao long bo ini..akhirnya ada restoran dimsum baru yg menyajikan menu ini..krna awam..mkan xiao long ini spti delema..nunggu dingin g enak..klo masih panas lidah terbakar juicenya..
Looks delicious! Now im hungry.
This looks so good 😩
Bout to try these for the first time
Timed my dinner perfectly, nom nom nom ;)
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL OMFG
I just had them for the first time in Hong Kong last week and they were so delicious 😋
My kids would love these.
Pretty humble guy, I didn't hear him brag about how good the food is like every other restaurant owner on this series.
Damn that looks good 👌🏻
Din Tai Fung is SUPER POPULAR HERE so anytime I get to go have dumplings, I'm on it! What I do is get a bit of my soy/vinegar mix into my spoon, put the dumpling on, break the dumpling (like he does) so the broth can cool down, and then eat it in one bite. :) That way I can enjoy the sauce, broth, and dumpling at the same time without burning myself!
Love making them love eating them.
I'll be in for a visit, the next time I am in NYC!
Food is awesome. My favourite cuisine is from Georgia (the one in the Caucasus), I recommend you try Khinkali, which is their version of dumplings.
Man, I love soup dumplings!
Its good especially with vinegar and rice like oh wow itis heaven
I can't live without dumplings....💜💜
I want to try one so bad
I ATE CORRECTLY ! AND I LIKE THIS FOOD !
I love when I’m commando and I can hear my balls smacking around when I walk around my house.
Yea me t- wait what le fuck did you just say
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amazing
Incredible 2..
I'm on a diet and these are my favorite food... 😓
Voto Studios oh my god u're here i was just training my judo for a fight
Voto Studios Just count the calories , you can eat them too , just a little )
Oh me too jydo8 rulez.
Voto Studios There are always cheat days
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The name 小笼(xiao long) doesn't mean little dragon, it just sounds like it, but it's a different character (dragon is 龙), it means little basket, and usually when you order them, you buy it in basket, the standard is 1 basket = 8 小笼包. Also, you NEVER use soy sauce for it, in the region where it's from, you will only ever find 2 things on the table: black vinegar and chili oil, soy sauce is used for cooking, not as a sauce.
But yea, reason why you don't eat everything is because it's too hot, most people where it's from (Wuxi, not Shanghai), they eat it sideway, bite slightly into it and suck a bit of the juices (it's technically not a soup either), but never all of it, because you want to save some of it for the final bite, to have with the meat. Also, pouring into it is considered strange, just dip the entire thing in your sauce, it adds the same flavour as if you pour it inside, and it's less troublesome... it's just unnecessary.
I've seen plenty of people pour in various parts of China. Some people like drinking all the soup first - you could make the argument that it's like having drinks only before or after you've eaten. That just boils down to personal preference. If Chinese people were exacting about the proper way to eat certain dishes, the entire country would be engulfed in warfare...
Where I'm from, we typically eat XLB with a sweet-ish vinegar like plum vinegar, and thinly sliced strips of ginger soaked in water to preserve their freshness. I've never had vinegar with chili oil before, but I might give it a shot, because it sounds good. The only vinegar and chili oil dumplings I know off the top of my head are known as "chao shou" 抄手 but they are made (and taste) completely differently from XLB (also I only refer to them with this initialism because I'm too lazy to copy/paste the characters when it's commonly known by its initialism too).
Walther, I never said it's normal to use the chili oil, just that restaurants always have these 2 items on the table, but people don't often use it(For xiao long bao, they use for other dishes), and never have soy on the table. Most just use the black vinegar for xiao long bao, and in China, there is never strips of ginger in the sauce either, only place I've seen that, is Din Tai Fung, which is from Taiwan. And their xiao long baos are really not good, they are tasteless.
With all this said, about the chili oil just being on the table, I do actually like to also add it to the vinegar, and a few locals do this, because xiao long baos have a bit of sweetness to them, so I like the balance between that and spicy.
To be fair, while it did look like a soy sauce bottle, he said it was black vinegar while he poured it. Might just be a reused bottle.
@@waltherc94 Yeah, that's 100% how we eat them, too. No chili oil, just that dark sweet-ish vinegar and very thin strips of soaked ginger.
Congrats on your SHORTY AWARD last night! nice meeting you too!
Soup dumplings are a little piece of heaven
Who cares if you eat it wrong, the fact that you are eating a dumpling is already a huge win in my book ୧☉□☉୨
Exactly
class is permanent
It would be fun to see an episode based on carnival food
Sometimes you go into some sort of wiki-walk of First We Feast content, usually started by a thumbnail with Sean Evans in it luring you in like a siren. Then you spend the night (and the morning) watching the most amazing food. Inspired and exhausted you head into your kitchen at 6AM, only to be hit with the reality that after watching all these amazing culinary displays, all you can make is a goddamn sandwich.
love to put julienne ginger slice and Chinese black vinegar in mine.
I relate to this man
That was dope
I have been to countless Chinese restaurants with many different friends and never had a soup dumpling. It was just one of those things I didn’t know existed but this channel has a video like once a month.
Are they a big deal in New York?
Dumplings are life
Watched this video as I sat waiting for my soup dumplings from Dumpling House… bite the top and put some soy sauce is the way to go 🤤
I’ve never had dumplings before those look great though
I finally know the right way to eat it 🎉🎉
NICE
This reminds me of Din Tai Fung in Taipei
Congrats on Shorty!
He's the CHAD of soup dumplings
i could literally sit in a noodle house and eat soup dumplings for hours without getting tired of them
Great I love China and Asia I am from Sri Lanka. Are you in Hong Kong
Mikey chen from one of my favorite yt channels 'Strictly Dumplings', takes a bite, drinks the soup, then pour chinese vinegar and hot oil in the dumpling.
Johannes Jørgensen same but i put less hot oil than he does for sure
Johannes Jørgense mike is the type of person to put hot oil on his cereals. Damn hot oil is basically his life
When he does that I'm like WHY?!
this is a Shanghainese dish, you dont supposed to put hot oil
i’ve always wanted to taste soup dumplings😢😭
Yumm
English subtitles please
Eddie Huang's gonna have a problem with these hooligans poking holes..
Came here to say the same thing. Where's the vinegar sauna?
Eyyyy I see you my g! The only other comment acknowledging the heresy going on here! Shoutout the the BaoHaus family
HOOLIGANS EVERYWHERE!
Hooligans. Eddie's way is the only way.
They don't want to be Jedis.
I've got to correct him on something. When he translates Xiao Long, he says it means "little dragon", which is 小龙. the "long" in Xiao Long Bao is actually 笼, which is a cage or container.
Xiao long doesn't actually mean small dragon. Long refers to the steam basket but is a homophone to the word for dragon. Some restaurants play up this pun in their marketing, but it is not the same word.
Hi Sean
Is your hot ones sauce available in Philippines? TIA
3:25 “I just love the dumplings by itself, all natural”
*20 seconds later
Pour soy sauce 👏🏻
Isyraf Halim black vinegar* he said it
yummmmmmmmmmm
you take a bite from its side then sip it. I'm Taiwanese American and I regularly eat this stuff... all my family and friends eat it this way too. I've never seen anyone do it the way this video shows, especially not in Taiwan.
anybody have an idea of what hes saying at 3'51'' .....??
Go to Mott Street, get it half the price taste even better.
Idk why my asian family members eat it like that my tongue cant handle super hot food so i wait until they are on the higher end of being warm and pop em in my mouth i like the soup and filling in my mouth at the same time
Dumplings are the besttt
im hungry
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Oh, so we just not gonna talk about the GIANT FUCKING DUMPLING on the right at 0:42?
i wasn't even hungry before i came here.now i am.
I wonder if it tastes close to what us, Georgians call "Khinkali" cause it almost looks exactly the same.
I'm hungry.
These are fucking addictive.
Dang
Eddie Huang already done this hooligans
1:35 YAYYOOOOOO
damn that mustache at 0:51
"If you poke a hole in your soup dumpling, you're a hooligan. Dont be a hooligan" - Eddie Huang
Please have keemstar on wing eating
Looks like georgian Khinkali, didnt know there was same thing in Chinese cuisine.
Looked up Khinkali. Seems like it is closer to your typical baozi (usually translated as "steamed bun"), since soup dumplings specifically have soup (aspic) in them.
Man I love dumb sumplings :)
Fun fact: Din Tai Fung's soup dumplings always have precisely 18 folds.
WeArePharmers I think that’s where Miley Chen went
eddie huang would call this guy a hooligan for eating a soup dumpling the way he does...
It rooks dericious
I pinch the top of the dumpling which causes the meat to drop out to the spoon underneath
Dumplings 🥟
khinkali FTW!
🤤Dumplings
Says it's wrong to take a half bite and proceeds to do it xD