The proper way to enjoy xiaolongbao: 1. Use a pair of chopsticks to pick one bao, put it on a soup spoon (idealy chinese spoon in porcelain) 2. Poke a little hole on the bao with the chopsticks, let the juice pour slowly into the spoon 3. Drink and savour the juice 4. With your chopsticks again, pick up a bao and dip it in the ginger vinegar 5. Put the bao back into the spoon, put some sliced ginger on top 6. Eat the bao Et voila!❤
It is a common Shanghai Chinese food and not unique to Taiwan. A Taiwan restaurant Din Tai Fung makes it famous worldwide. Is like Pizza from Pizza Hut originating from Italy and not the USA.