Eric had been to visit Xian in about 1991, if memory serves me correctly, when his family came to pick him up from his mission to Taiwan. They ate at a very famous dumpling restaurant and that memory had stuck in his mind for all these years. The only thing that Eric wanted to do in Xian, for sure, was find that dumpling restaurant and enjoy another memorable meal.
We weren't quite sure if we found the exact restaurant but we did enjoy a wonderful meal here (I have no idea what the name of the restaurant was). I think the dumplings are called something like dim sum here but in China these tasty little morsels are called dumplings. We sat down to eat at about 2:30 pm and we were the very last customers for the lunch menu. We chose a "special" that included 14!!!! different!!!! dumplings! as well as soup and rice and I think even some kind of salad. It was tons more than we could eat but we gave it our best efforts. All this for only $11 a person!
Here is a closer look at the variety of dumplings they served us. I loved that they were all brought out to our table in those round, bamboo steamers hot off the boiling water and steamed to perfection! Some of those little treats were almost works of art. I don't know how they shaped those fancy ones... looks like a time-consuming, tedious amount of effort involved.
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The little pockets in the dumpling are so cute! The travel channel has a guy named Anthony Bordain (I think) that goes all over the world trying fantastic food. We just watched him in China and he described the dumplings. You ought to send him your pictures!
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