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No. 100 in the world · November 2026

Dough Zone

Bellevue · Seattle, USA

xiao long baoNo. 100
A photo like it · Miya.m (CC BY-SA 2.0) (xiao long bao, not from Dough Zone)

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Xiao long bao, pan-fried bao and the Q-bao

The line to expect: Dinner waits; get on the list.

The Seattle-born dumpling house that's grown across the West Coast.

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Xiao long bao (soup dumplings)

Xiao long bao (soup dumplings)

6 hr (mostly chilling the jelly), about 1 hr 15 min hands-on · About 32 dumplings, 4 people. The soup inside is a jellied stock folded into the filling cold; it melts in the steamer. Make the jelly the day before and the rest is a long, happy afternoon of pleating.

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