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Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Delicious Shanghai Snacks
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  • meteorologist1
  • Updated By meteorologist1 on August 11, 2006
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  • Xiao Long Bao - Shanghai
    Xiao Long Bao
    by meteorologist1
    In Shanghai you must try its famous snacks, especially the Nanxiang Xiao Long Bao, which is absolutely delicious. It is a kind of bao zi or steamed dumpling filled with ground pork and soup. The soup is the special part about these dumplings -- you have to first bite a small hole in the dumpling and sip the soup out. Then you can dip the dumpling in vinegar and enjoy it. I like to put the whole dumpling on a soup spoon to avoid spilling anything.

    There's also a kind of dumpling that contains only the soup and you put a straw into the dumpling to sip it out. I personally don't like this kind... I still want the meat inside.

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  • Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum
  • Address: 85 Yu Yuan Road, Old Town God's Temple
  • Phone: 6355 4206
  • Website: http://www.yuyuantm.com.cn
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Mouth-watering Dumplings
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  • yipsufen
  • By yipsufen on June 1, 2004
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  • If you want to have takeaway, be patient because the queuee is very long. Prices for takeaway & dine-in are different.

    Famous for its various kinds of dumplings, esp. dumplings with crab roe filling.

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  • Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: 85 Yu Yuan Road, Old Town God's Temple
  • Phone: 6355 4206
  • Website: http://www.yuyuantm.com.cn
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Shanghai dumplings galore!
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  • cheezecake_deli
  • Updated By cheezecake_deli on February 28, 2009
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  • Restaurant corridor - where are the dumplings? - Shanghai
    Restaurant corridor -
    where are the dumplings?
    by cheezecake_deli
    This is the place for xiao long bao (delicious Shanghainese dumpings), though I didn't think it was the very best xiao long bao I've had. Still, it is extremely popular. You can't miss it in Yu Bazaar - there are loads of people queue-ing either to get in or to take away dumplings. It can seem a bit showy - you can watch the chefs at work behind glass panels. The dumplings themselves are v large and quite delicious...

    Xiao long bao - that's all they do, largely.

  • Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: 85 Yu Yuan Road
  • Phone: 021 63554206
  • Website: http://www.yuyuantm.com.cn
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: It's really not bad!
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  • jackiesg
  • By jackiesg on April 23, 2008
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  • Nanxiang Mantou Dian - Shanghai
    by jackiesg
    This restaurant was so popular that many had wrote about it in their own travel pages. I had read mixed opinions about it. Too pricey, long queue, taste so good, definitely must go etc.

    My opinion: It really taste quite good! It's an experience drinking the soup in the steamed bun with a straw and the Xiao Long Bao taste fresh and good. Indeed, there's a long queue but the queue is fast moving, at least on my day of visit. Service is okay, but waiting time after ordering is quite long.

    Overall, I feel that it's worth the experience.

    I didn't order much so I can only recommend the Steamed bun w crab roe stuffing and Steamed bun w fresh meat.

    Steamed bun w roe stuffing: It's a big bun. But, don't expect it to be able to fill your stomach bcos it has nothing but roe soup wrapped in the bun. No meat inside! Just soup! So, you stick a straw they specially provide into the centre of the bun and then...suck very slowly. :) Bcos, it's steamingly HOT. Don't burn your tongue, Ouch!

    Steamed bun w fresh meat or what we call the Xiao Long Bao. Typical Xiao Long Bun, nice.

  • Theme: Local
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: more expensive than average
  • Address: 85 Yu Yuan Road, Old Town God's Temple
  • Phone: 6355 4206
  • Website: http://www.yuyuantm.com.cn
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Eat till you get sick
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  • Amareyui
  • By Amareyui on August 25, 2004
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  • Nanxiang Mantou Dian - Shanghai
    by Amareyui

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Address: 85 Yu Yuan Road, Old Town God's Temple
  • Phone: 6355 4206
  • Website: http://www.yuyuantm.com.cn
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Nan Xiang Restaurant
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  • sunnywong
  • Updated By sunnywong on December 5, 2002
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  • Nanxiang Mantou Dian - Shanghai
    by sunnywong
    The 100-year old Nan Xiang Restaurant specializes in Shanghai style cuisine. Situated in a pleasant environment and equipped with advanced facilities, the restaurant serves first-class foods and is an ideal place to dine.

    The special recommendation is the Nan Xiang small steamed meat bun.

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  • Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: a fast food selling shanghai...
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  • Audrey118
  • By Audrey118 on August 25, 2002
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  • a fast food selling shanghai dumpling within yuyuan garden.
    steaming hot shanghai dumpling (xiao long pow) and it comes in baskets of teens. most local people eat lots of them. i could not understand why...until you eat it. pretty hot and has just enough meat and enough meat sauce oozing out of the dumpling!!!

    xiao long pow - long queue but worth it

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: yuyuan garden
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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Nan Xiang Man Tou Dian
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  • vigi
  • Updated By vigi on May 15, 2003
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  • Nanxiang Mantou Dian - Shanghai
    by vigi
    Nan Xiang Man Tou Dian (inside YuYuan). Best place for Xialongbao.
    The girls are carefully taking the meat out from crabs. A team from Japanese TV filming a travel program were sitting next to our table inside the resturant.

    Crab Meat Xialongbao. Yummy........

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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Every city seems to have it's...
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  • By zizquark on August 25, 2002
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  • Nanxiang Mantou Dian - Shanghai
    by zizquark
    Every city seems to have it's local famous food that draws long lines every day. In Shanghai it's the Nanxiang Dumpling Store. In the Yu Yuan area a few steps from the YuYuan tea house,they are made with crabmeat and pork. There are long lines everyday with about a 45 min. wait for dumplings. Local people say they are the best in Shanghai because of the combination of meat and paper thin dumpling.People were having their friends photograph them with their long sought after dumplings.

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    Nanxiang Mantou Dian: Is it really that good?
  • By diavenus on April 11, 2005
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  • Read many reviews on this restaurant before I went to Shanghai and badly wanted to try the Xiao Long Bao. However, it is near impossible to get seats. Lots of pushing and shoving. No systematic way of allocating seats/tables. Everyone just stood behind a seat and waited like vultures.
    Gave up in the end. A family in the same tour group managed to eat some Xiao Long Bao, but felt that they prefered what they found in Singapore.

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  • Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum
  • Address: 85 Yu Yuan Road, Old Town God's Temple
  • Phone: 6355 4206
  • Website: http://www.yuyuantm.com.cn
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