The Shanghai Soup Dumpling

Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse • Season 1 • Episode 2

About this episode

Emeril and chef Mario Batali travel to Shanghai on a delicious quest to find their favorite version of the iconic Shanghai soup dumpling. Both are intrigued by the engineering feat that is packaging meat and hot soup inside a thin blanket of pasta. Their journey culminates in an impromptu dumpling cook-off where they put their learnings to the test and are judged by local dumpling masters.