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No. 2 in the world · November 2026

Jia Jia Tang Bao

Huanghe Road, Huangpu · Shanghai, China

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The one to order

A basket of pork and crab tang bao, with a bowl of egg and seaweed soup

The line to expect: A line by 8am, and the crab filling sells out by early afternoon. Beat it: go at breakfast.

Tiny, plain and wrapped in front of you all day: the skins are so thin the bao slump in the basket, which is the point.

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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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