The restaurant definitely has a hole in the wall feel and seating is rather limited with about 40 available seats. The line moved rather quickly and within 30 minutes, we were seated. Even though it was a rainy and gloomy day, there was a long line to get a taste of their signature soup dumplings. Situated on Balboa Street, slightly north of Golden Gate Park in the Outer Richmond district, the restaurant possesses the highest Yelp review score of all the restaurants we visited. Shanghai Dumpling King is a classic San Francisco institution. Eat place will be graded by the quality of the dumpling skin, how savory the pork filling is and whether there is enough broth inside of the dumpling to end the drought in Northern California. At each location, we will only order the classic Shanghai steamed dumplings (上海小籠包) filled with pork. We put aside an entire Saturday afternoon(11 hours worth) a pair of baggy sweatpants and our good judgement, just so we can find and crown the best soup dumpling restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area. Even though the San Francisco Bay Area(our hometown) has one of the largest concentration of authentic Chinese restaurants, finding a soup dumpling place that even remotely resembles Din Tai Fung has been futile.
In fact, we can’t stop thinking about those savory, juicy morsels of soup and pork perfection. The TripQue team visited the original Din Tai Fung in Taipei last year and since then, we keep dreaming of those delicious little soup dumplings (小籠包), also known as Shanghai steamed dumplings.
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