hey all! this is a post from our very last meal in europe (we will still be posting more europe meals). we were hunting for a restaurant called baozi inn which was recommended on time out as a delicious cheap feed. also we wanted something fancier than tesco’s lunch special we were having quite often!
we walked around chinatown for about 10 to 15 minutes before giving up on finding baozi inn. we then decided on having dumplings and tried to look for a restaurant that fitted our criteria: looks good, well priced, and takes credit card payments because we were totally out of cash.
we ordered 2x xiao long baos and 2x noodles. the first dish came and we started eating it right away! it was the best xiao long bao of the meal, generous soup and delicious filling. it turned out that it was the pork xiao long bao which we didn’t order, but was given to us by accident. the waiter only found out when he tried to deliver the next 2 xiao long baos which we actually did order. he then decided that we should have it for free so it was really nice!
our next xiao long bao was the chicken xiao long bao. this was definitely not as good as the pork. it has less soup and the filling was less fatty so resulted in a drier xiao long bao, but still was good.
our last set of xiao long bao was the crab roe and pork. again this was quite good, but not quite as good as the pork ones. my advice is definitely to go with pork.
for noodles, we got the zha jiang mien. this noodle is almost always a crowd pleaser and beijing dumpling did it really well. hand made, beautifully chewy with delicious and generous sauce. wonderful.
our last dish was the dan dan noodles. this was served with the same chewy noodles with delicous broth which was not too spicy. yum.
after this meal, we packed went back to our hotel to pick up our stuff before catching the train to heathrow airport. as a last europe meal, it was a great meal – missing it already!
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