Soup dumplings at home: worth it once

I made xiao long bao from scratch, and it took an entire Sunday. Mine weren't this neat. They were delicious, and I'll be going back to buying them from people who've pleated ten thousand of them.
Photo: Phil Denton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
@kenji_mori · Steady contributor
The aspic step is such a good bit of kitchen magic, though. Very glad you did it so I don't have to.