Jia Jia Tang Bao

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Jia Jia Tang Bao

Sometimes only casual, street-level food will do it, and the soup dumpling urge is one of those times. Few things are better on a chilly, rainy day than a fresh hot basket of steamed dumplings filled with pork or crab-and-pork along with a shot of rich, hot broth that you suck out first by biting a careful little hole in the wrapper before you actually tear into the dumpling. [Reverse the sequence and you might leave wearing your lunch.] As soon as you turn the corner onto Huanghe Lu you'll recognize this tiny establishment -- it's the place with the line snaking out the door and down the sidewalk. What's a 30 minute wait for dumplings like these? A basket of 15 truly excellent pork tang bao is RMB 6 (about 75 cents) but splurge and go for the crab dumplings , 15 for RMB 16.50 (a little over $2.50). They are ambrosial. Jia Jia Tang Bao, 90 Huanghe Lu, by Fengyang Lu. 6327-6878. No English menu, but when you look at the wall-sign you can recognize the choices mentioned above by their prices.

Keywords: Chinese