Xiao Long Bao

[TheVittleVlog]

Looks good!

[LeoDJ1992]

little dragon poop?

[StilettoFlux]

little dragon bun or little dragon dumpling?  Lisa is beautiful, btw :-)

I love dim sum :-)

[thibaulthalpern]

No. Not little dragon bun. The "long" in "xiaolong" does not mean dragon even though it's the same pronunciation. It mean "cage". So it means little cage dumplings. It's written

小籠包

[StilettoFlux]

Same tone as long (dragon)? 4th voice? I have an aggressive little white snake, her full name is Xiao Bai Long. A coworker from Taiwan helped me with it. The written IS different, yes. The hardest part of learning Mandarin for me is the tones. :-p

[thibaulthalpern]

No, not 4th tone. It's 2nd tone as in lóng. For most people who are not native speakers of tonal languages, the tones in Chinese is hard to master.

[StilettoFlux]

That's what I was asking.. long as in dragon is 4th tone, yes?

[thibaulthalpern]

Dragon is lóng (2nd tone) written as 龍.

Cage is lóng (2nd tone) written as 籠. The only difference in writing 籠 and 龍 is that on top of 龍, you write the marks for bamboo 竹 and you get 籠. :)

[leon6266]

dumplings smells like shit hate them

[RockyBaIboa]

i thought bao meant bun

[thibaulthalpern]

Bao can mean bun but in this case they are not really buns.

[sixiaohai]

hen hao chi ^^

[jsw663]

I love xiaolong bao but it isn't taiwanese!

[thibaulthalpern]

That's right. It's Shanghainese in origins.

[richardkanter]

Finally got it but don't ask me how. Looking for same on my TX but it sez I need to download some program so I'll leave it to u.