This is the joint to slay your post-clubbing xiao long bao craving. The house-wrapped baos are available until 1:00 AM on the weekends. The soy sauce aspic squirts prodigiously out of thin wrapper. For $4 this is the best 8 XLB you can have.

This shop relocated from Monrovia. The sign clearly state it’s a Nan Xiang (famous for being birth place of XLB)-style XLB, which means it attemps to resemble the baos at Yuyuan Garden (Shanghai) with its thin skin and extremely juicy interior. Prices hovers in the middle of the market; a great rendition.

The restaurant known for fluffy steamed buns also has great xiao long bao. It's $5 for 10 and the simple, freshly wrapped xiao long bao has a thicker wrapper. The soupiness ranks top five in SGV.

The best place to order xiao long bao during dimsum hours is here, for obvious reasons (see: the name). These are the platonic ideal of xiao long bao, not too soupy, not too many, not overpriced, not too thin.

Crab xiao long bao is cheap and soupy here. Skin is thin, not quiet DTF thin, but the seafoody XLB has become a mainstay and a benchmark in the SGV.

Chinatown's best XLB option is right here. It compares rather favorably with SGV middlings. Apparently all the Miss Chinatowns patronize Mandarin Chateau for soup dumplings.

Here, XLB are served in individual foils, and one can get them at 8 a.m. Before the arrival of Shanghai No. 1, Seafood Harbor used to serve the best XLB in SGV at a dimsum house.

It's $6 for 8 flavorful tasty, balanced, slightly salty with no soup at all. Some people really like little buns with no porky jus. This is perfect for those people.

ROC dumplings has nearly types of xiao long bao fillings, more than any other restaurant in LA. The prices are definitely Westside, but not one single UCLA student is complaining.

Kuan's runs a permanent buy-one-get-one special on xiao long baos. $7 gets 2 baskets, so 8 xlb for $3.5. Better bring someone unless you want to eat nothing but xlb. Only 9 folds here, there is a hint of soupiness, but the rustic dough lacks opagueness and bounce.

This is an honorary xiao long bao inclusion. They do not wrap their own, and sometimes the top of the folds get a bit dried from being oversteamed. but if anyone’s jonsing for ten xiao long baos at 10: P.M., this is the quickest option. Just try to not touch the tables.

The "sweet" XLB here borders cloying, and can put a diabetic go into hyperglycemia. Stick to the regular, which actually isn't too extraordinary. The mini baos aren’t too porky, tastes of scallions, and are moderately soupy. They're freshly wrapped showing 16 pleats, just shy of Din Tai Fung. A basket of 8 is $6 and arrives in 8 minutes flat.

The Arcadia branch of 101 Noodle Express is walkable from either branch of Din Tai Fung. If you don’t mind a side of stilted service with cheap xiao long baos almost in the style of Din Tai Feng, try this instead.