Cha Siu Bao - cardboard flavored

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Actually, what the article doesn't tell you is that they usually are. My brother (who is married to a Taiwanese woman) was over there (well, Taiwan, or Chinese Taipei as China likes it called), and said you knew which street vendors to eat from and which to avoid because some had a huge line, and some no customers at all. Apparently people keep tabs on the sucky vendors.

That article leaves some things out that the others articles revealed.
Among them, exactly what you said.
There are a few articles about this that cite the fact that there are many vendors, and this is a single case.