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No. 73 in the world · November 2026

Gourmet Dumpling House

Beach Street, Chinatown · Boston, USA

xiao long baoNo. 73
A photo like it · Miya.m (CC BY-SA 2.0) (xiao long bao, not from Gourmet Dumpling House)

The one to order

Xiao long bao and the scallion pancake

The line to expect: Lines at dinner; tiny room.

Boston Chinatown's small, busy dumpling house.

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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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