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Please Do Not Compare Eating Dumplings to Popping Pimples

“Love popping spots AND eating dumplings? Combine the two with exploding soup dumplings at Dumplings Legend.”
Photo via Flickr user Kai Chan Vong

So, here's a surefire way to offend a whole bunch of people on the internet: Take a millennia-old culinary tradition and liken it to squeezing zits.

In an apparent attempt to ruin dim sum for everyone, Time Out London posted a video on Facebook urging lovers of dim sum and pimple poppers alike to go to Dumplings Legend restaurant.

The comparison led to a shitstorm on social media, where most reactions emphasized the fact that you are most definitely not supposed to "pop" dumplings and release their precious juices. Not to mention the fact that popping pimples is gross, and dim sum is delicious.

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To help Time Out understand the error in their ways, Facebook users employed a myriad of food analogies.

"Popping soup dumplings is the equivalent of smearing jam all over your plate/dining table and eating your toast plain, while taking loads of videos where you look like a complete fool" and "Watching you waste all that soup is akin to someone getting battered fish and chips and peeling the batter off, while remarking, 'love peeling dead skin to reveal the smooth new skin within?" were two of the 3,300-plus outraged comments.

In response to the fallout, Time Out London offers what appears to be a very sincere apology, and asked its readers to help rectify the situation.

"After our recent video on Chinese dumplings, we've been politely informed that bursting these lovely little parcels of culinary joy before they reach your lips really isn't the done thing at all," the statement says, adding "We'd like to invite the knowledgeable food-lovers of China and Asia to tell us what traditional delicacies we Londoners should try—and how to eat them properly."

Next time we dig into some xiao long bao, we'll do our best to mentally dissociate them with acne.