There's a long-standing rift in my family over how soup gets inside xiao long bao dumplings. The popular school of thought is that chefs freeze the liquid into cubes and parcel them up into the flour-based skin before steaming.
A more radical faction maintains that the soup is carefully injected into the pre-assembled teardrop dumpling with a syringe after cooking.
How painfully wrong we all were.
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