December 20, 2011

Vancouver Daze #48: Lin's x The Place x Shanghai Wonderful x Dinesty

Vancouver Daze, Volume 48: XLB Tour at Lin Chinese Cuisine and Tea House on Broadway, The Place Restaurant on Granville Street, Shanghai Wonderful Restaurant and Dinesty Chinese Restaurant in Richmond on December 17, 2011. Published in Vancouver Is Awesome.

Xiaolongbao Dumplings | Dinesty Chinese Restaurant

A bunch of us decided to go on a XLB tour of Vancouver and Richmond for some sweet xiaolongbao steamed soup dumplings. We solicited recommendations and hit up four restaurants strictly for XLBs. We were stuffed eating two to three dumplings at each each place.

Xiaolongbao Dumplings | Dinesty Chinese Restaurant

1) Dinesty.

The XLBs (very top) from this Richmond eatery were the smallest by far but packed a big punch. There were really good and my favourite of the bunch. They were so flavourful, most and tasty.

Xiaolongbao Dumplings | The Place Restaurant

2) The Place.

This random and oddly generically named joint had massive XLBs full of meat and soup. There were a tad salty with thick shells, but very good nonetheless.

Xiaolongbao Dumplings | Lin Chinese Cuisine

3) Lin's.

The first place we hit up was Lin's and the gold standard for the day. They were made fresh, but we had a first batch that was a little under par, sticky and broke the soup seal. The rest were good and quite flavourful.

Xiaolongbao Dumplings | Shanghai Wonderful

4) Shanghai Wonderful.

The consensus was SW's dumplings were lackluster, not bad, but lacking flavour and texture from the rest. We tried a crab XLB and agreed it was an odd choice and inferior to pork. It was nothing special in general and a bit of a disappointment.

Xiaolongbao Dumplings | Lin Chinese Cuisine

The order of the first three is obviously very subjective as I felt they were all top notch, tasty destinations for xiaolongbao. By the last restaurant, we were all very full from a four hour, four restaurant lunch tour. Good times.

Lin Chinese Cuisine 林餐館 on Urbanspoon The Place on Urbanspoon Shanghai Wonderful Restaurant 旺 on Urbanspoon Dinesty Chinese Restaurant 聚 on Urbanspoon

2 reactions:

Rick Chung said...

omnomnom. I love Dinesty's xlb!

Rick Chung said...

went to lin's today. thought they were ok but sounds like i need to visit Dinesty!

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