XiaoLongBao
October 10th, 2008On Friday we went to Old Town…
…to have steamed dumplings (XiaoLongBao) at a famous place. Even at 2:30 in the afternoon the line was around the corner.
We passed several “2-yuan” shops, which definitely beat the dollar shops or the hyaku-en shops. It’s like a “30-cent shop”.
In the evening, we went to play pool at one of the bars in Julu Lu. One of the female pool sharks at Parrot Bar introduced herself as XiaoLinSomething and I said, “like XiaoLongBao”. She pretended to be offended and all the other girls giggled. The girl who spoke English best told us that XiaoLongBao is slang for “small breasts” and that DaLongBao is the opposite.