Nansho Mantouten Roppongi Hills

This is also know as Nan Xiang steamed bun restaurant. The lunch specials are very good. The location is a bit hard to find but follow the sign around the complex. It is located on 1 °F with green lettering. You will understand once you look at the signs. We were glad we went.

A super super famous Chinese restaurant with the mother restaurant is in Shanghai.
First, the good parts: the Kitchen is fitted with glass, and it is totally open and visible, you can see the cook start your order when you place it.
The tables are comfortable, if a little cramped (Tokyo style!).
Service is quick and competent.
Now the bad news: it is authentic, and by that I mean authentic in a bad way.
You see, we in the West HAVE IMPROVED Chinese food!
Yes we have. Because AUTHENTIC Chinese food is TOO D*MN GREASY!
Yes, the Chinese, you see, being a calorie deprived nation, associate grease with luxurious decadence, and so no fatty pork, but greasy… chunky greasy… pork is all the rage. Calorie starved peasants who finally make good want grease and lots of it
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And the Nanxiang Steamed Buns Restaurant delivers.
Which brings us to the house specialty: soup dumplings.
If your idea of a good dumpling is a small, chewy, gristly, piece of barely minced port surrounded by melted grease that is «soup» is heaven on earth, then head here.
Okay, back to the good things. The dumpling skin was perfect, a thin, well made, perfectly tender skin that was translucent and tasty (yep, it was that good because you could taste the excellent gyoza skin through the grease… some grandma is back there making the dumpling skins…).
But then, the grease solidifies on your tongue at the human body temperature and you remember why «lard sandwiches and a glass of ice water» is not ever a good idea as a dining choice.
My wife had one of the special giant steamed buns filled with special spicy mince and soup. Spicy was right, it was too spicy too eat (and we like hot food, munching Mexican, Indian, Pakistani, Thai and Viet-​Namese and Cambodian (garlicky) food with ease). The soup for this special bun was less greasy.
My kids had various side dishes, chicken and rice and whatnot, which they pronounced «meh…»
Beer was cold, but unfortunately just instantly solidified the grease to the roof of your mouth when you took a sip after eating one of these world famous dumplings.
This is the kind of authentic Chinese food that should have stayed in China.