I enjoyed the XLB I ordered from Panda Dumpling in San Carlos just before Xmas. They had very even, though not particularly thin (or thick) skins, and not too much soup, leading me to believe they may have been frozen, They tasted nicely porky, with some seasoning that was not easily identifiable, and though I planned to sample just a few after a long day with other eating priorities, I ended up eating nearly the whole batch before they cooled off. I prefer them to any of the King/dom of Noodle/dumpling outposts, as they didn’t have the impenetrably dense topknot with relatively thick skins. I also ordered the pan fried buns, which I took to be sheng jian bao Sheng jian bao in the Bay Area - #18 by tm.tm, but were slightly different. 
ok to be sheng jian bao, but were slightly different, Sheng jian bao in the Bay Area - #18 by tm.tm
