I scooped eater dot com and everyone else again! Technically this is not XLB. It is a shumai. And it's Inner Mongolian Lamb style. Massively sized about twice as big as typical xlb. 6 not 5. The lamb meatballs inside yield a broth that is extraordinary in it's amount and you will want not for the unctuousness of pork fillings or it's variants of concern. (Sorry bad joke.) The skins are not bao type but they are thinner than anything you've seen on any xlb or dumpling. To give...read full review
I scooped eater dot com and everyone else again! Technically this is not XLB. It is a shumai. And it's Inner Mongolian Lamb style. Massively sized about twice as big as typical xlb. 6 not 5. The lamb meatballs inside yield a broth that is extraordinary in it's amount and you will want not for the unctuousness of pork fillings or it's variants of concern. (Sorry bad joke.) The skins are not bao type but they are thinner than anything you've seen on any xlb or dumpling. To give...read full review