Target 2.4: Au Petit Café
Address: 4851 Main Street
Phone: (604) 873-3328
Menu: Page 1; Page 2; Condiments Photo
Hours Photo

Visit date: May 9th, 2008
Visit time: 12:00 Noon

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Target 4: Lin’s Chinese Cuisine and Teahouse
Broadway @ Granville
Page 1; Page 2
Price: $4.99 for 6 baos

Visit date: April 5th, 2008
Visit time: 8:00 PM

–ratings–

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Target 3: Peaceful Restaurant
Address: 532 West Broadway (map)
Phone: 604-879-9878
Menu: Available at their homepage
Price: $5.95 for 8 small baos

Visit date: February 15th, 2008
Visit time: 8:00 PM

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Target 2: The Place
Address: 8028 Granville St (map)
Phone: 604-261-3948
Menu: Page 1
Price: $4.55 for 6 baos

Visit date: February 1st, 2008
Visit time: 7:30 PM

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Target 1: Chen’s Shanghai Restaurant (Bai yu lan canguan)
Address: 8095 Park Rd (map)
Phone: 604-304-8288
Menu: Page 1; Page 2; Page 3
Price: $4.20 for 6 baos
Hours of operation

Visit date: January 29th, 2008
Visit time: 8:00 PM

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Introducing: The Xiaolongbao-down
an introduction

Saturday, January 19th 2008

by Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver editor

Xiaolongbao are steamed Chinese dumplings filled with soup. It’s really as simple as that, but for some difficult-to-explain reason I’m obsessed with them. If I had to guess at the source of my affection for these little pillows of soup, I’d say it has to do with the sheer ingenuity of them. As impossibly thin little wrappers precariously encapsulating a spoonful of piping hot soup, the xiaolongbao defies all known laws of physics. Of course, it probably also doesn’t hurt that they are completely delicious. Properly made, the soup inside is incredibly rich, thickened a bit by the flour from the pastry and highlighted by a morsel of fatty pork. They’re also fun in that there’s a variety of strategies from the asbestos-mouths who will down them in one bite, to the method I personally pioneered. In short, what you do is put a little ginger-spiked vinegar in your spoon, plop a bao in the spoon, make a little hole in the pastry and then suck. Once enough soup is extruded, it’s time to bite down and finish it.

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