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Spotted November 20, 2009Skin so thin you can see the broth line very clearly. Very nice clean tasting broth and a very nice light meatball. New entry into the XLB scene in Richmond, BC. -
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Spotted November 13, 2009Nice XLB here. Thin skin, nice broth, and flavourful meatball. Very good.-
Alexa Andrzejewski Mmmm those look so chewy and good! Do you think the skin should be think or thick and chewy?
Alexa Andrzejewski Hey again! You should be able to view comments now.
Fernando Medrano I think there are at least two distinct styles - the more popular thin-skinned variety and the more rustic thick skinned variety. My general preference is to the thin skinned XLB (as popularized by Din Tai Fung, etc) which also tend to have light-flavoured broth and meatballs. I have had very good thick skinned XLB - typically a more rustic preparation with more flavourful broth and meatballs (often flavoured with Chinese cured hams, and other rich aromatics). What I don't like is when an XLB maker attempts a thin-skinned variant and ends up with a deflated, broth-deprived, dense-meatballed thick-skinned XLB. The one above has a thin skin (but not nearly as thin as the best places in town).
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Spotted November 06, 2009One of the best in town. Look at that thin skin. Delicately flavoured broth and nice tender meat ball. -
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Spotted November 06, 2009Poor, deflated, XLB from an otherwise very good Dim Sum restaurant in Richmond, BC. -
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Spotted November 06, 2009Decent XLB. Northern Delicacy is one of the restaurants at Aberdeen Mall. They have a very good smoked duck. -
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Spotted November 06, 2009Food Court XLB. It's OK....better than many restaurants in town. -
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Spotted November 06, 2009Poor, dense little XLBs. This was the location of what became The Place when it moved to Vancouver. Lin (who ran The Place) is the grand-mistress of XLB in Vancouver, BC. -
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Spotted November 06, 2009Nice XLB from The Place - Lin's former restuarant. Lin's makes one of the best XLB's in the city.-
Randy F. I love all the soup!
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Spotted November 06, 2009Nice XLB in Richmond BC - a city full of great XLB.-
Alexa Andrzejewski Did you go back again?
Fernando Medrano I have been back...yes. No pics of the second visit though.
Fernando Medrano Ack - now I see I post this twice! (Sorry).
Alexa Andrzejewski Both good pictures though! ;-)
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Spotted November 06, 2009One of the Best - if not the best XLB in the Greater Vancouver Area. -
