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On this episode of Good Bites Takeout, host Alex Melki is in Montreal’s “New Chinatown,” hitting up a spot that Montrealers are lining up for - Sammi Soup & Dumplings.    Owner Sammi Liu has brought China’s famous Xiao Long Bao, “Soup Dumplings” to Montreal - and there’s nothing else like them.    The Order:  Classic Juicy Pork (Soup Dumpling) | $12.75  Juicy Lamb & Coriander (Soup Dumpling) | $18  Beef & Curry (Pan-Fried) | $16.75    Host  www.instagram.com/alexmelki/  Sammi Soup & Dumplings  www.instagram.com/sammi_soupe_dumpling    MTL Blog - Montreal’s largest online network, created by and catering to a new generation of Montrealers.    Website: https://www.mtlblog.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MTLBlog/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MTLBlog/  Twitter: https://www.Twitter.com/MTLBlog/    For National News visit: https://www.narcity.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NarcityCanada  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/NarcityCanada  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NarcityCanada    For advertising and sponsored content opportunities visit: https://www.narcitymedia.com/

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00:00Hey Canada, welcome to Good Bites Takeout. I'm Alex and this is the show where I make the most

00:11of the fact that I can't go out to eat so instead I take it to go. I'm on St. Catherine Street West

00:15walking to what's often referred to as View Chinatown. Sammy soup and dumplings has a

00:20loaded dumpling menu but the thing that has people driving in and lining up is their xiaolongbao soup

00:27dumplings. Xiaolongbao is a very famous local food in Shanghai area now even all

00:32over China and it has a long history since a hundred years ago in China. My

00:38family owns the same kind of restaurant in China. It's very popular people like it

00:43very much. I'm thinking why not I bring this kind of food to Montreal now it's

00:48something it's a very popular food in Canada. Today I present three flavors so

00:53the first juicy pork you know it's a very traditional flavor and if you don't

00:58know what's your order you can take the juicy pork it's good choice. The second

01:04is lamb coriander you know its taste is unique and the sufficient flavor mix the

01:10lamb and fresh coriander together. The last one is pan-fried cherry and beef. This

01:16one we created by ourselves and it's popular and if you are the fans of curry you

01:24will love it for sure.

01:26All right I'm gonna kick things off here with the original the sweet pork and the

01:36reason is this is probably the one that a lot of people who are trying this out

01:39for the first time are gonna go with. I'm gonna tell you right now I've today found

01:43out that I've been eating these dumplings completely wrong for years. What

01:47you're supposed to do is you're supposed to pick up the dumpling with your

01:51chopsticks place it in the spoon. That's step one. Take a bite out of this just

01:56enough to let the juices pour out. You drink it in you get all that flavor and you

02:02place it back down and now the trick is see that opening you dunk it in and you

02:08just scoop up some sauce and that's what you eat.

02:15Listen it might be the wrong way to do it but I enjoy the Neanderthal way of eating it.

02:21Pop it in my mouth it tastes good.

02:23All right moving on to dumpling number two I've got lamb and coriander. Now what I'm

02:28gonna do here though is I'm gonna mix the two methods the right way in the wrong way

02:31and I'm gonna try to come up with something new maybe you've done this

02:33before maybe I'm a genius. I'm gonna bite the top off leave the soup inside and I'm

02:40just gonna dunk this over and make a little volcano of flavor.

02:50Oh my god how have I never done this before? As much as I love coriander and I

02:54love lamb and this is very good lamb the way it blends together with the juices and

02:58the flavor of the coriander is awesome. The sweet pork that they had in that

03:01original one is just out of this world and I'm appreciating that a little bit

03:05more having tasted this. Still good. All right to close things off now the third

03:09dish is gonna be pan fried beef and curry dumplings. A little bit different from

03:14the soup ones there is no liquid inside and I don't know about you but I've never

03:17had curry inside of a dumpling before. I'm willing to give it a shot.

03:22I'm not really like blown away by the beef and curry. It's doing something oh you

03:28know what there's actually a lingering flavor hold on. It's growing on me. You

03:33know what it is? I'm so used to the juices from the soup dumplings blowing up in my

03:38mouth and just being a quick hit right away. This is a slow burn. You have one it

03:43sits on your tongue. You have the second one the flavors start expanding and the one

03:47thing that's standing out the most to me is that the curry is super subtle. If you're not

03:51crazy about curry this might actually be good for you to try just because it's

03:56it's just the tinge of it. You're just getting a tiny little taste of it but at

03:59the same time if you're absolutely crazy about curry you're not gonna get a whole

04:02lot of it here. And that is it for this episode of Good Bites Takeout. Thank you

04:05for making it to the very end and listen if you want to get a taste of Sammy soup and

04:08dumpling you can find them right now on DoorDash, Skip the Dishes, and Uber Eats and

04:12you can go right into the restaurant and get it right from there but there might be a

04:16line. To be honest with you it'll be worth the wait. Now listen if you're still hungry

04:19don't worry about it I'll be back next week with a brand new place that you can

04:22order some takeout from. I'll see you then. Oh yeah, come to pop.

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