The DIY Chinese Soup Dumpling Kit

Adventurous eaters and home cooks, you have new Saturday night plans. Xiao long bao, or “little basket buns,” are steamed dumplings filled with soup and ingredients like tofu or mushrooms. This kit includes everything you need to make the impressive “buns” at home, from natural beech wood dough rollers to a steam basket for cooking. So how do you get soup into a dumpling? The included agar agar powder is a natural red algae gelatin that turns the broth into a solid form that’s easy to tuck into the dough. Once steamed, it melts back into a liquid to create savory purses of hot soup. To eat this popular Shanghai street food, take a tiny bite of the dough, slurp out the delicious broth, and finish the rest in one happy bite.

Kit includes:
– 5-piece bamboo steamer
– Parchment paper rounds
– Dumpling dough roller
– Filling wooden spatula
– Agar agar powder
– Instructions and recipes

Difficulty Level: Intermediate