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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 1:03 am
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Originally Posted by Skyman65
FYI, 小籠包 are not the same as "Soup Dumplings" (小籠湯包)--at least, in Taiwan, there is a difference.
To the best of my knowledge, the cuisine in question was invented somewhere near Shanghai (I've heard Hangzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou...), and exported to Taiwan circa 1949. There is no distinction between soup and no soup, but the big ones have more soup (yes, I realize that "big" constitutes a linguistic contradiction).
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