XIAO LAI XI WU XI XIAO LONG BAO

This shop is very close to home. As a Wuxi native, I have eaten a lot of wontons and xiaolongbao since I was a child. In addition to the old brand Wang Xingji, I have tasted many shops like Chao Wangji, Xishengyuan, Hexingji, Guxianglou, Xidingji, Suxingji, Dingfuji, etc. Xiaolaixi on Hubin Street seems to be the earliest one. I have been here several times. It is diagonally opposite Xialianfuji and very close to the Chinese Medicine Hospital. The environment in the shop is simple and elegant, and the place is clean and spacious. The waiter is very enthusiastic and the food is served very quickly. He only sells wontons and xiaolongbao. Wontons have three fresh, mushrooms, shepherd's purse, and vegetable meat. Xiaolongbao only has fresh meat xiaolongbao; there are few varieties, but the taste is very good. Xiaolongbao is especially suitable for the taste of Wuxi people, with thin skin, juicy meat, firm meat, and slightly sweet. But it is a pity that I can only eat one or two of Xiaolongbao now, even though I used to be able to eat a basket of Xiaolongbao. The Xiaolongbao gift box packaging in the store is also very beautiful, red and full of joy, and is a good gift.

A friend who lives in Wuxi recommended this dim sum restaurant that specializes in xiaolongbao and wontons to me. He said that it tastes better than Wang Xingji's food, so I drove over to try it in the afternoon when I went to Wuxi to do something. How does it taste? [Service bell]Service: The service is quite considerate. Because it is summer, the waiter brought a cup of sour plum soup to the guests to cool down [Mint]Environment: The environment is not very luxurious, with a farmhouse style decoration, but it is clean and tidy. The table does not have the greasy feeling of a dim sum restaurant. It is very clean. Thumbs up! I ordered Kaiyang and shrimp wontons, and a cage of crab roe xiaolongbao. The taste is very good. The wonton skin is chewy, and the filling tastes very delicious and chewy. It is very delicious with egg skin shreds, dried tofu shreds, and seaweed shreds😋! The crab roe soup dumplings are a bit sweet, but adding a little vinegar to the filling to increase the saltiness is just right, highlighting the sweet and fresh taste of the crab. There is quite a lot of crab roe in the filling.

Wuxi's time-honored chain store, Wuxi Xiaolongbao and Kaiyang wontons are especially recommended. Xiaolongbao is large in size, and has the traditional sweet taste of Wuxi, and is delicious. Kaiyang wontons are topped with tofu skin shreds, which tastes more bean-flavored than the more common egg shreds.

When I was traveling in Wuxi, I asked the locals and they recommended this dim sum restaurant. The dumplings were really delicious, with thin skin, lots of juice, and fresh meat. They cost 2.5 yuan each. I ordered a basket of 40 for 100 yuan. They were packed in a gift box. They were 80% cooked. When I got home, I steamed them for seven minutes in boiling water. They were still delicious. I froze the rest. I recommend it.

The wontons were filled with dried ingredients but were a bit salty. The complimentary plum juice was quite good. The Wuxi xiaolongbao was okay, but the crab roe xiaolongbao was lackluster.