From Kaifeng, Henan.
Pin · Kaifeng (Song Bianjing) · city
- OriginKaifeng · Central Plains · city · Han
Kaifeng guantang bao
灌汤包guàntāngbāo
- Fold
- Purse, top-knot
- Cooked
- Steamed
Anatomy
Inside
- Wrapper
- Wheat doughThin semi-leavened
- Filling
- Pork with aspic
- Cooked
- Steamed
- Served
- Breakfast/snack
- Size
- About 6 cm across
Not known yet We don’t yet have a written story, a recipe or a dated or primary source for Kaifeng guantang bao. What we do have is below, with its sources.
Range
Where
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How sure we are
Evidence
Reasonably sure. Reference works agree, but we have not yet found a dated or primary source.
The grade comes from the project's source report and has not yet been checked source by source. How grading works.
First record Tangbao first appeared in Song Bianjing/Kaifeng (S, no year or text cited)
Notes from the research
Soup-filled-bun techniques developed in Kaifeng (Wikipedia, G). Claimed ancestor of xiaolongbao.
This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §6.1, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.
History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.
Family A
