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ultimate guide to xiao long bao in Taipei

The Ultimate Guide to 15 Amazing Xiao Long Bao Restaurants in Taipei

Xiao Long Bao, also abbreviated as XLB, is a well-known Chinese food famed for its flavorful soup filling and delicate wrapper. Although XLB is well-known today, it started from humble beginnings. Huang Ming Xian is widely acknowledged as the creator of XLB, almost by accident, so the Xiao Long Bao origin story goes… At his

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Taipei Restaurant – 店小二魯肉飯 DianXiaoEr – Sanchong’s best kept secret!

店小二 DianXiaoEr is easily one of Sanchong‘s best kept secrets, but not for the reason that you may expect. The thing that makes Sanchong such an interesting neighbourhood to walk around is the vast quantity of back alley restaurants and street food that litter the pavements. Sanchong, in so many ways, is like Yonghe, in

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Taipei Restaurant – 劉山東牛肉麵 Top quality Beef Noodle Soup at LiuShanDong.

Beef noodle soup is more often than not really good wherever you go. But when it’s right next to Taipei Main Station MRT and top quality, you are on to a serious contender for best in the city. So Liushandong beef noodle soup has been in action since 1951 already, and I would not be

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