{"id":860040,"date":"2024-05-29T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=860040"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:28:42","slug":"xiao-long-dumpling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/xiao-long-dumpling\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiao Long Dumpling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This place opened in Chinatown (4275 Spring Mountain Rd.) in late 2021 with a ton of hype and high expectations, given that the restaurant\u2019s name is its purported specialty, xiao long bao soup dumplings. We were impressed at the start \u2014 big room, plenty of customers, interesting menu \u2014 and it was looking like another good play in Chinatown. But it didn\u2019t hold up. We tried several items\u2014wonton in chili sauce, scallion pancake, beef chow fun, sauteed green beans, and, of course, the soup dumplings. Odd as it may sound, the best dish was the green beans. Price isn\u2019t a problem; most of the dishes we had were $10 and under, with the chow fun most expensive at $14.95. A tall Asahi beer was $12. Our bill for two with two beers was $97 and we had a lot to take out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scallion pancake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sauteed green beans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beef chow fun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Peanut Butter Wontons?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One dish did stand out, but not in a good way. The spicy wontons are served in a peanut sauce that tastes a lot like peanut butter (the wontons are at the bottom). It\u2019s a strange mix of flavors that we found interesting at first, but then too strange to keep eating. Think wontons mashed in with a Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Soup Dumplings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The dumplings were good. The pastry is very delicate, so you have to eat them with a spoon. It was a minor annoyance that they stuck to the paper they were served on, so some were punctured in the process of getting them out of the basket. Overall, we\u2019d rank them below others we\u2019ve sampled, e.g., China Mama or Shanghai Taste.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Verdict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hours are 11:30 am to 10 pm daily. Located in the Chinatown Plaza, Xiao Long Dumpling is easy to find and and get to, but there are too many other good options in the area to make it a priority, unless you just gotta try those Reese\u2019s wontons. Click here to check out the full menu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This place opened in Chinatown (4275 Spring Mountain Rd.) in late 2021 with a ton of hype and high expectations, given that the restaurant\u2019s name is its purported specialty, xiao long bao soup dumplings. We were impressed at the start \u2014 big room, plenty of customers, interesting menu \u2014 and it was looking like another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":860046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1446,1453],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/XiaoLongDumpling.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860085,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860040\/revisions\/860085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}