According to legend, the owner of a cake shop decided to experiment with the popular steamed bread he sold in the nearby Guyi Gardens in 1871. The result is what we know today as the delicate, pleated dumpling with the delectable soupy interior. Start your tour with xiaolongbao's original home, the Guyi Garden Restaurant, where they still dish out steaming dumplings by the dozen. If you're still craving another soupy dumpling, wander around the corner to Gulong. At this 100-year-old shop, you can watch women crafting the dumplings by hand. Afterward, work off all that dough with a stroll through the flower-filled Guyi Garden (entrance RMB 12). How to get there: Take Metro Line 11 to Nanxiang Station. Just outside the metro station, take bus No. 2 to the first stop, which pulls over right outside the garden. Or, take a RMB-14 taxi ride from the metro station. Shanghai day trip 2: Tongli Tongli is like any other water town surrounding Shanghai with one big exception -- it's the home of the Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture (entrance RMB 20). The 7,000-square-meter museum displays the collection of Shanghainese p rofessor and sociologist Liu Dalin ( ???) and is set on the grounds of a former girls' school with manicured gardens -- a perfect place to showcase its outrageously phallic sculptures. Inside the halls, captions in English and Chinese offer some historical context on more than 1,000 pieces of pottery, artwork and, uh, handheld devices. The oldest exhibits date back