din tai fung

J is someone who has many friends yet she never fails to send me her blessings on my birthday and greetings every Christmas even when I never really remember hers. :P My bad.

J is my ex-colleague. She is easy-going, unpretentious, laid-back, adventurous and fun-loving. I only came to realize lately that she's as greedy as me. Very much a foodie herself, she follows foodblogs religiously and takes pictures of almost everything she eats with her trusty Canon Powershot(can't remember the model). No, she does not have a foodblog. I guess she's just inspired to be a food stylist/photographer so that she can finish up everything after the shoot. :P

I brought J to Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐 for dinner when she came to visit on New Year's Day. A couple of years back when it first opened in Paragon, we usually had to wait for over an hour to get a table. No reservation! Now that there are many outlets around Singapore, we can easily savour the goodness of their specialty-soup dumplings( 小籠包 ). Many are familiar with the food at Din Tai Fung so I shall not go on describing how good they are. Some may argue that the soup dumplings at Crystal Jade's are better, I say Din Tai Fung is not famous around the world for no reason.







I've also tried Din Tai Fung at Taipei which a friend claimed to be better compared to Singapore's.



I'm glad to conclude that the standard of their food is consistent throughout the two countries and different branches in Singapore.



Besides the default soup dumplings, the other must-order dish is the Braised Beef Noodle Soup( 紅燒牛肉麵 ).



The noodles with broad bean sauce(酢醬麵) is one of Taiwan's favourites. Not sure if we were just hungry, it was pretty tasty.



The fried prawn fritter was something new on the menu. Wrapped in crispy beancurd skin, you can actually taste the sweetness of the succulent prawns without the excessive oil.



Speaking of soup dumplings, P and I used to patronise the foodcourt at Sim Lim Square for Shanghai xiao long bao whenever we were there to keep up with technology. They were good and affordable. That was before the birth of Din Tai Fung. And that was before everyone has become caught up with their personal lives.

Anyway, J promised to bring me to Dragon-i to try Malaysia's famous Shanghai soup dumplings the next time we meet up in KL. ;) I hope that won't take another year.

J, where's the picture of the soup dumpling you promised to contribute to my blog? I also figured that there's a Din Tai Fung at The Gardens in KL! Didn't you know that? :P Should have brought you somewhere else.


shot by J