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Time Out says

A City-based takeaway lunch spot specialising in steamed Chinese baozi.

Chinese buns have become pretty trendy. Squidgy rice-flour baozi – usually filled with pork or veg – have had brilliant modern updates from the likes of Yum Bun, Flesh and Buns and other venues whose names don’t sound like a euphemism for buttocks (Baozi Inn: there’s one).

This, presumably, is what this little takeaway-cum-tiny-sit-in-lunch-spot is aiming for. Buns and dumplings are made by hand in north London, then steamed them onsite. Unfortunately, they aren’t made very well. The pork bao was okay (if a tad low on flavour) and, if they’d doubled the quantity of plum sauce on the duck-filled ‘momo’ (one of the sandwich-style bao), they could have saved it from being a mouthful of dry clagginess. But somehow, the xiao long bao – soup dumplings – contained not a drop of soup. The pastry was so thick that it was like chewing on a swimming cap, and they looked like rubber recreations of a brain that had been left to melt on a radiator (and then sat upon). Pretty dumplings they were not. And that’s saying something, given that even the best-made bun basically looks like a puckered dough bumhole. Does London need another modern baozi joint? Why not? Is this it? Probably not. 

Written by
Alexi Duggins

Details

Address:
49 London Wall
London
EC2M 5TE
Price:
for two with drinks and service: around £20.
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