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How To Eat A Soup Dumpling

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How To Eat A Soup Dumpling

Chinese soup dumplings, sometimes known as Shanghai dumplings, are very tricky to eat, because they are filled with hot soup. This film will show you how to eat a soup dumpling without burning yourself or making a mess. Chinese soup dumplings, sometimes known as Shanghai dumplings, are very tricky to eat, because they are filled with hot soup. This film will show you how to eat a soup dumpling without burning yourself or making a mess.

There are many different types of dumpling in Chinese cuisine. Soup dumplings, sometimes known as Shanghai dumplings, are small buns filled with soup as well as meat or vegetables. They are cooked by steaming them in a bamboo basket, and are often served as part of a dim sum meal with vinegar and strips of ginger. They can be very tricky, and even dangerous, to eat, because when they are bitten into the hot soup tends to squirt out. So, this is the method of eating soup dumplings without burning yourself or making a mess.

Step 1: Bite a hole

The dumplings will usually be served to you steaming hot in a bowl of vinegar inside a basket with a lid. Start off by picking up the hot dumpling with your chopsticks and transfer it to a soup spoon so that you can hold it near your mouth. The seam where the skin of the dumpling comes together will be facing up, so try to keep it upright. Pick up the dumpling with your chopsticks and take a small bite from near the top of it. This will allow the buildup of steam and heat to escape.

Step 2: Eat it whole

When you think the dumpling has cooled down enough, put it in your mouth whole and eat it. Alternatively, some people prefer to bite a hole and then suck the soup out before eating the dumpling. Never bite a soup dumpling in half as this will cause the soup to squirt out.

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  1. RakkoonKidd

    These look so yummy =] I can't wait to visit See this summer ^-^

  2. iamtinach

    i supposed eating carefully and slowly is just fine while the soup dumplings are served hot. you never want to burn your tongue and eat with tears in your eyes.

  4. helloitsme

    who make this crap up, next ur telling me how to breath whilst chewing, just eat the damn thing

  5. ruin550

    Well i prefer to drink the soup first

  6. Anonymous

    deliciousssss

  7. Anonymous

    um, I think the method of holding chopsticks is quite important. It is not just "as long as you can make it to your mouth" kind of eating with chopsticks. The right way to hold chopsticks enables the eater to have a firm, percise, and fasthold of anykind of food.

  8. Anonymous

    i know how to make that coz im a dimsum chef

  9. Anonymous

    yuu is right, she doesn't know how to use a chopstick in the traditionally correct style. Holding a chopstick should be graceful but precise enough to lift a bean on both ends. She's using the easier "scooping up" technique.

  10. Anonymous

    Yes, she does know how to use chopsticks. Depending on who you learned to use chopsticks from, you hold them differently. For instance, my mother learned how to use chopsticks through observation at a Chinese restaurant, and I learned how at a Japanese restaurant. Though we hold them differently, we can both effectively eat with them.