New Shanghai - Dubai mall

We were looking for an Asian restaurant in Dubai mall and stumbled across this. It looked really inviting, and on seeing the menu, it looked tempted too so we though of checking it out.

The interiors are nice, and the place is bigger than what it looks like form the outside.

We read about the Xiao Long Bao in one of their promotional leaflets and just had to try it out. There is a way to eat it that was written on the table mat, and that's what actually made us order it.

We chose the chicken Xiao Long Bao. We mixed some soy sauce in the bowl and had it with that. We were more curious to try out what was written there (above pic). The taste was pretty good.

Then we moved on to some soup, but since we were also hungry, we chose the Chicken Wonton soup. The wontons were flavourful, and the broth certainly felt comforting.

To drink, we had the Black Tea Kombo. It is a mocktail made from balck tea, ginger, strawberry, and kombucha that is garnished with ginger and mint. This felt refreshing and the flavour was well blanced - not too sweet, not too sour.

For our mains we decided to order the Mapo tofu. This is tofu prepared in a chilli bean sauce. The sauce is really spicy and uses a very famous Asian chilli (I can't remember the name now). It is meant to be extremely spicy and certainly not for everyone.

We had this with the shrimp fried rice. This helped to ease out the spice levels from the mapo tofu.

To end on a sweet note, we had the fried ice-cream. It was really good. It was crispy from the outside, and the ice-cream was cold inside. It was drizzled with chocolate sauce on top.

It was the overall feel of this place; it felt cozy and that's what made our experience really good.

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