Eating With Gordon

Xiao long bao (XLB), or soup dumplings is a popular food originating from Shanghai. They are one of my most favourite dishes. They are like little dough type dumplings like you get at dim sum, filled with a pork or pork/crab mixture. Some soup broth is chill it until it becomes an aspic, dice it finely, and add it to the stuffing mix. When steamed, the aspic turns back into a broth, so the inside of the dumpling is filled with this wonderful soup, which is really flavorful with all of the pork and pork/crab mixture cooked in it.

I have sampled many xiao long baos across Toronto restaurants.

Here is the list of my top picks for XLB if you are craving some.
1. Northern Dumpling - review
2. Sika Deer Chinese Cuisine - review
3. Yu Garden - review
4. Ding Tai Fung 
5. Xiao Long Bao - review
6. Shanghai Dim sum - review 
7. Asian Legend

Yet to be tried their XLB:
Chinese Dumpling House
369 Shanghai Dim Sum

Last Update of List: 8/18/2016

Is there a restaurant that I should try out? Please feel free to let me know via comment or email!

The best bubble teas in Toronto have been changing over the years. Stores like Tea 168 and Bubble Tease existed across Toronto. Only in a few years, large bubble tea chains have started to branch into Toronto and take over existing markets.

I had consumed many bubble tea drinks around the world even thou they are empty calories ...  Here are my recommendations for best bubble tea in Toronto (focus more on quality and less on price):



Example Bubble Tea from Coco:

Here is a list of my favourite food bloggers that my wife and I enjoy watching (most of the time). Please feel to give suggestions.

Mark Wiens - https://www.youtube.com/user/migrationology

• This is as a full time job as a video food bloggers
• Got a very large mouth and loves eating everything with chills (disagree with this principle) 
• If the food is tasty, he leans right and blinks his eyes many times (more blinks = very tasty food)
• His wife is his video captures the videos for him and mostly eats last after finished filming (this is our theory) 

 Trevor James (The Food Ranger) - https://www.youtube.com/user/thefoodranger

• Masters student studying in China who has advance Mandarin language skills
• visits many food restaurants around Asia
• He did have a few bad experiences with food poisoning 
• Canadian!

Simon and Martha (Eat Your Kimchi) - http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/

• A married hip Canadian couple that originally went to Korea to teach English
• They have fully turned to full time food blogging and video recording
• Very entertaining and funny (Wife disagrees)
• Currently living in Japan and used to live in Korea

Matt Stonie (Megatoad) - https://www.youtube.com/user/MegatoadStonie

• Rank 1 competitive eater in MLE (Major League Eating)
• Its crazy how this guy can eat so much food in one sitting ...

The following restaurants are my top authentic Taiwanese restaurants in the GTA area. Please feel free to agree or disagree.

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

Comments:
Cha Me Cha did not make the list due to it's lack of quality in service and food quality compared to these other restaurants

Other Places:
Grand Noodle - horrible! Not even fresh made noodles