Steamed Pork Buns (小籠包/小笼包)
This is from a very famous steamed bun shop in Hualian (花蓮) - '公正包子店'. The queues at this shop is amazing, considering the shop only sells a handful of products.
Top of the list are the steamed pork buns. They are also called "Xiao Longbao" although this is not the same "Xiao Longbao" made famous by the Shanghainese, which resembles dumplings more than buns. These "Xiao Longbao"s are more like miniature versions of the traditional steamed pork buns, good for a couple of mouthfuls.
As steamed buns go, and for NT$50 a basket, they are pretty decent and above average. The skin is moist but not too thick to make a mouthful starchy. The pork filling is juicy and flavourful with no porky animalic offnotes. The shop was introduced by a local taxi driver and we arrived with high hopes. Truthfully, they are probably fantastic by local standards but I have had better steamed buns elsewhere before. Still, if one is ever in Hualian (花蓮), and craving for steamed buns, this would be an excellent stop to make.
Steamed Pork Buns (小籠包/小笼包)
This is from a very famous steamed bun shop in Hualian (花蓮) - '公正包子店'. The queues at this shop is amazing, considering the shop only sells a handful of products.
Top of the list are the steamed pork buns. They are also called "Xiao Longbao" although this is not the same "Xiao Longbao" made famous by the Shanghainese, which resembles dumplings more than buns. These "Xiao Longbao"s are more like miniature versions of the traditional steamed pork buns, good for a couple of mouthfuls.
As steamed buns go, and for NT$50 a basket, they are pretty decent and above average. The skin is moist but not too thick to make a mouthful starchy. The pork filling is juicy and flavourful with no porky animalic offnotes. The shop was introduced by a local taxi driver and we arrived with high hopes. Truthfully, they are probably fantastic by local standards but I have had better steamed buns elsewhere before. Still, if one is ever in Hualian (花蓮), and craving for steamed buns, this would be an excellent stop to make.