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A lone japanese backpacker musing over baskets of steamed goodies; or the polar Starbucks, business deals clinched over bowls of slurping noodles. This is the Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao; a different imagery from Crystal Jade Kitchen, or Crystal Jade Ginseng Chicken & BBQ.
In bid to be as exciting as its name are the deviant rice noodles, northern chinese cuisine, and soup dishes found in its menu. Five-grain rice, tim sum and double-boiled mien respectively. For the northern chinese cuisine deviation, of course, one also cannot forgo colour deviation, each pregnant with a chinese native filling.
Jade ingot, preserved vegetable; amethyst ingot, mouthwatering chicken/口水鸡; orange ingot, string bean & preserved olive leaf; opaque ingot, kimchi. Unlike Crystal Jade Restaurant or Palaces, it is not a practice to order steamed rice to accompany side dishes here at La Mian Xiao Long Bao.
Dumpling with Stewed Pork & Preserved Vegetable (SGD 5.50)
Other Crystals aside, this is the Jade(ingot). Do believe me that the other shades are as intense as this green. No more spinach as we have our own greens- plum(chinese mustard), preserved vegetable here to suffuse quesadillas green! And real ingredients used- you could taste the lushness of plum/chinese mustard leaves through the green skin!
It is not a whole-green food. Instead of preserved vegetables, it is rose-gold- stewed pork inside. Which makes you think of designer jewelry- foods cast in such an odd colour combination. This time, no more of my customary practice, chinese dumplings to be hemmed with raw ginger strips! This is because the stewed pork is so aery and fragrant that no raw tubers is needed to be consumed for the motility of the gastrointestinal tract(unlike XLBs or SLB.)!
P.S. This green ingot is a must-see here, together with your LMs or XLBs.
