A restaurant in China's Nanjing province famous for its authentic soup dumplings is set to open a branch in Los Angeles city, US, the media reported on Friday.
Restaurant Pindasan is also famous for its roasted meat dish and the owner and its head chef have co-authoured "Production Standards of Nanyang Soup Dumplings" and "Quality Control Standards of Nanyang Soup Dumplings", the People's Daily reported.
The soup dumplings of the restaurant are meticulously made, with soft, thin skin, a light soup and meat stuffing made with lean pork.
Each soup dumpling has 21 pleats and the steaming time is controlled to within seconds.
However, in the Los Angeles branch, staff will not be able to serve the soup dumplings to customers as soon as they are steamed, because according to US law, restaurants are not allowed to bring the customer very hot food.
So the soup dumplings will be allowed to cool and served when their temperature is below 45 degrees Celsius.
Soup dumplings were originated in China around the 18th century.
