¥30
Fami-Li-Hood Kitchen, Mutianyu Village CHINA
Mmm, this was delicious doused with soy sauce and chilies! I’ve always loved these greasy type omelets. I’ve only seen them served at Asian restaurants though. American restaurants don’t seem to served them this way. I grew up eating omelets like this at home. Noms!
Served over rice. ¥29
The Palace Museum Restaurant, Beijing CHINA
This sucked! It was cold and raining, and we really wanted some hot food to warm us up but this dish was barely lukewarm. Fail! The meatballs were really low quality and the rice was hard.
2 orders with sauce ¥41
Jia Jia Tang Bao, Shanghai CHINA
I really liked this place and the soup dumplings were delicious! I loved the crab flavor and the broth was wonderful. The lady at the front didn’t speak any English but we were able to order food just by pointing, hehe. Definitely, a must try while in Shanghai!
Jia Jia Tang Bao.
With shrimp and bean curd. ¥99
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
This dish was great! It was very different from anything I’ve had before and it was fun and delicious. It was flavorful and had a lot of different textures in it. It also had baby shrimp and regular shrimp in there but with lots of exoskeletons. I think the orage stuff was crab roe? I’d also never had a dish served in a paper dish over a sterno.
2 orders with sauce ¥41
Jia Jia Tang Bao, Shanghai CHINA
Omg, these Shanghai soup dumpling were amazing! When is Shanghai eat some XLB, right?!?! The pork filling was delicious and the broth was tasty. The dumpling casing had a nice thin thickness, but wasn’t too fragile so it still withstood my clumsy chopstick skills. Noms!
The restaurant is tiny!
¥16
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
I loved this dish! The thin layers of bean curd were super fun to eat and they seemed to pull apart and have a similar texture of meat. Noms!
¥32
Guyi Hunan, Shanghai CHINA
These ribs were super flavorful, but a bit dry and tough. You really had to scrape off the excessive amount of cumin seeds to get at the ribs, but the seeds were actually kinda fun to eat. Overall, this dish was a miss because the protein wasn’t cooked very well.
¥25
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
This was amazing and just as good if not better than any pork belly that you’ll find in any fancy, expensive restaurant. The pork was tender, juicy and the sauce was rich and bold. Noms!
With vegetables. ¥92
Guyi Hunan, Shanghai CHINA
I loved this dish! The light yolky batter was amazing, and the prawns and large vegetable pieces were fried perfectly. Yes, it was on the salty side but it still tasted great.
¥22
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
I thought this was more of what I think of as egg drop soup than a hot and sour soup. It was very tasty though, and definitely on the vinegar-y side which I liked. They filled it with plenty of crab meat and pieces of fish so it was a nice reminder of the beautiful West lake outside.
Served in bamboo tube. ¥88
Guyi Hunan, Shanghai CHINA
This was an interesting dish. The bullfrog legs were generally bland, but these took on some of the flavor of the slightly spicy sauce. The legs were difficult to eat with chopsticks (I wish I could have used my hands but it seemed like a nicer restaurant). There were also some large starchy balls in there, but I don’t know what they were. They had a really soft texture that I didn’t like very much though.
Roasted peanuts and pickled vegetables. Complimentary
Large dumpling filled with kimchi. ₩1,000
Namdaemun Market, Seoul SOUTH KOREA
This mandu was very good. The exterior was warm and fluffy and the kimchi filling was bold and delicious. I wanted to treat it like dim sum though and dip it into some spicy chili soy sauce. 🙂
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