Xiao Long Bao in San Francisco

When on the road and working you try and eat best you can, when and where you can. This hole in the wall only takes cash, you will walk away with either a plastic bag or a container of sorts and the folks don’t have patience w/ you if you’re not quick, clear and confident in your order. Whatever…the food is worth it! 🤌 It seems to all be made in house and sells off quickly which means they are producing and cooking all day as best they can to keep up GREAT value and simply good👍

Xiao Long Bao is a take-out only dim sum restaurant. No indoor dining. We stand on the sidewalk and eat in front of the restaurant anyways, so no biggie. The other two dim sum take-out restaurants on Clement are more busy. So, if you are in a hurry, go here. The other two places are better, but not worth me waiting another 15 minutes. Our favorite items here are the fried crab meat dim sum and their crispy shrimp egg rolls. Both are filled to the brim. The beef pancakes are good if they are fresh. We came at noon-ish and the pancake wasnt crispy anymore. Regardless, I do recommend this establishment to our community.

Love this place - no frills, quick grab-and-go dim sum. My favorites are the buns (pork and veggie, shen jian bao) and dumplings. Decent filling to bun ratio and the buns are usually good so I don’t mind. Nice service.

Always a tempting choice for my take out dim sum if the line isnt too long.Service is quick enough and its both English & Chinese language friendly for ordering.Great place to order in bulk & have 2-3 days worth of dim sum as it reheats very well for most items.Easy cheat to bring to any pot lucks or gatherings if you arrive early enough to ensure stock.Noted for good Xiao long bao and take out dim sum

My friends and I went on a “tour de Clements” where we got the same dishes at several different to-go dim sum joints back-to-back. We decided that this was the best place overall. Really good and super affordable! The food’s not as hot as you’d get at a sit-down place but at the price it’s still very much worth it.

It’s so meh, whenever Wing Lee is closed we would go here to give them another chance, but I think we’ve reached the final time with our fourth try. The dim sum is all hit or miss, the good and reliable items are their baos.The XLB is mid, har how has thick and doughy skin, fried shrimp puffs are soggy, and rice roll skin is 3-4 times too thick.They also charge way too much for what they offer, probably the most expensive take out dim sum in the area for the most mediocre taste.Also, they don’t even try with the service, it’s chaos in there with all the steamers going, frying in the back, and plenty of yelling.

We tried a few different dishes (beef rice noodles, lotus wrap, sesame ball, shrimp & chive dumpling) but none of them really hit the spot, they were good but not wow. Prices are fair, service is speedy and they accept credit card.

Came in the afternoon and they still had a large selection of dim sum. Their vegetable steamed bun is delicious along with their scallion pancakes. Cannot wait to go back to try other items.

Looking to try someplaceDifferent for dim sum with my daughter and found this place on google. Got there early very fast on and out.Very good, fresh and fairly priced.Walked to the library around the corner and had a picnic on the benches.

Not going to lie this is usually my favorite dim sum shop. Today I had a terrible experience I walked in and the place was empty except one customer they took their order quickly as I was waiting two people got in line behind me. The employees literally ignored me and walked behind the counter all the way across from the person behind me asked their order and got it ready quickly as I started to say my order they asked the OTHER PERSON BEHIND ME. while this was happening with the worker on the right someone came in and the other girl TOOK THERE ORDER. I just look back and forth at both of them very perplexed and ended up getting dim sum across the street. I’ve never had a bad experience here (Don’t get me wrong they’re always a little bit rude but I just keep my mouth shut.) but this was reciculous???? Probably won’t be going back for a while, it’s a good thing there are so many other dim sum places close by but it sucks I’ll be missing out on there food./: