The soup dumpling is actually a Han Chinese specialty. The main ingredients are flour, warm water and pork. As early as in the Northern Song Dynasty market has been sold, then called grouted steamed buns or soup buns.

The difference between the dunked soup buns and xiaolongbao:

The dunked soup buns, as the name implies, are steamed in a small steamer, with soup, added to the skin jelly, the skin is thin and sinewy, translucent, and the practice of the flour is not fermented. And small dumplings are no soup, is the general small meat buns. The skin is not as thin as the above kind, to fermented flour to do.