1, Din Tai Fung
1993 to "thin skin stuffed with eighteen folds" of the steamed dumplings famous Asian restaurant industry. Din Tai Fung, was named by the New York Times as one of the world's top ten restaurants, in the minds of many diners, this is the small dumplings in the "Rolls Royce".
Din Tai Fung steamed dumplings with wheat flour called the world's cutting-edge wheat species such as high gluten in the Americas, Australia's low-gluten wheat for modulation. The pork used for the buns must be the leg meat that is selected and freshly drained of acid on the same day. Din Tai Fung has set a quality standard for Xiao Long Bao that operates with the precision of a Swiss watch: each bun weighs 21 grams, allowing only plus or minus 2mg of error.
Each xiao long bao must have "5 grams of skin, 16 grams of filling, 18 folds, and 5 minutes in the steamer before serving", and the ratio of flour to filling gives it the best flavor.
2, Ding Fu Ji
"Ding Fu Ji" belongs to the old Wuxi noodle shop, opened in Wuxi more than 20 years, new customers, old customers remain. Wonton is Ding Fu Ji's signature, most of the guests into the store looking for the flavor of the small Tatsuo. Ding Fu Ji only sells two things, one is the small cage, and the other is the wonton.
Small dumplings of the dough is dead, because there is no fermentation, so tight and tough, just enough to wrap the soup inside and do not absorb the taste of chewy texture. The meat filling is very firm and springy.
3, Xishengyuan
This 18-year-old Xiaolong wonton store is now one of the most representative Xiaolong wonton store in Wuxi. In fact, the list sister think Wuxi's most famous xiao long bao store is it, from the outside back to the traveler should miss the taste of it.
Xishengyuan's xiaolongbao have thin skin, tight meat, and enough marinade. Authentic Wuxi xiao long bao taste will be sweet, but also Wuxi locals from the taste of eating, in fact, the sweetness is mainly reflected in the soup, but Xishengyuan xiao long bao changed the traditional sweetness, sweetness is just the degree of the public can accept, so that friends from all over the country can enjoy the flavor belonging to Wuxi.
4, smile to hi
Smile to hi in Wuxi also has many branches, quality control is doing very well. Store environment is relatively good, elegant blue tone. Xiaolongbao is an authentic flavor, characterized by thin skin, bite open and suck a mouthful of soup, sweet juice, meat firm, very satisfying.
5, Gu Xiang Lou (Qin De Xing)
Founded in 2008 in Wuxi, the local Gu Xiang Lou is a noodle production and marketing-based restaurant chain, known for its xiao long bao. The store's business hall is in a four-square shape, and the dining table adopts the traditional round table, creating a heaven-square, earth-circle pattern. The store's door is decorated with red characters on a gray background, which is both eye-catching and a little bit bookish, and the calligraphy work [厚德载物] in the store adds a little bit of literary flair to the atmosphere.
From the original alleyway snack bar developed into a chain of restaurant brands, and continued to develop the local snack brand Qindexing. Small cage outer skin leather moderate, not the kind of big thick skin, not the popular kind of big thin skin, belong to the moderate, bite feeling suitable for the vast majority of diners. The point is that there is a lot of soup, and you can clearly see the soup hanging down when you pick it up.