Originally Posted by
moondog
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).
From what I've heard (from my wife) they come from Nanxiang (Shanghai).
I didn't mean to imply that it was Taiwan cuisine, merely that in Taiwan, 小籠包 and 小籠湯包 are not the same thing.