Din Tai Fung

On a few occasions my friends and I have decided to try Din Tai Fung because it's been around for a while and has received good reviews on many websites. Din Tai Fung first opened in Taipei and now there are two restaurants in the heart of Sydney! We tried the one in city Westfields, on the food court level.

 I was quite delighted when I saw the ordering system, you simply grab this ordering page and tick in the boxes the yummy things you want. I quite like how the chefs work their dumpling magic behind a glass screen, so we can see how well and clean they are. I am quite impressed with how clean and tidy this store looks. They are generous with packaging and plastics, you can get soy sauce in these little, cute plastic bottles with a red cap, or chilli oil in a handy snap container...and even their ginger were bagged in little individual zip lock bags. (Yes, wanting to bag some cute soy sauce bottles did cross my mind hahaha).

 Here are some photos from two trips to Din Tai Fung in Westfields:

Hot & Sour Soup

 This soup tasted similar to shark fin soup, except it was slightly more sour and hot... not much though. I would prefer it if the soup represented it's name. If only it was a tiny bit more sour and spicy, then I could eat this for days :D.

Mango Pudding

 I really, really, really like their mango pudding! It has these yummy coconut fibre bits in there too! This is probably my favourite item from Din Tai Fung (since I have a friggin huge sweet tooth). For those who don't like pudding, maybe this one will change your mind.

Vegetarian Dumplings

 These taste pretty good! This place lives up to it's name, the dumplings are just right. Not too much meat and not too much flour. Soft flour, I like!

 Just an aside, they cook their rice really well ( as silly as judging rice sounds), each granule is not soggy and it still retains most of the rice's plump texture. Feed me more rice plezzz. Nomnomnom!

Veggie Delight

 Their so called signature "Veggie Delight" dish is not a stand out, it was okay to have but it's not a dish I would return to this stall for. It kind of reminds me of those little side noodles you get with the Japanese bentos.

Pork and Green Beans

 Tasty. I would have this dish again. However, the servings are not that generous considering the fact that they are just green beans.

Spicy Sesame Noodles

 Tasty for the first few minutes, too creamy in a sickening way afterwards. I could not even finish these noodles. The noodles themselves are well made though. Perhaps I should have tried the noodles in a different sauce/soup.

Prawn and Pork wonton in Spicy Sauce

These are nice, even the spicy sauce is nice. The sauce is not too intense, which goes well with the already slightly salted wontons. (:

I would certainly recommend this place! I haven't tried the bigger Din Tai Fung at World Square, but I know will be just as nice (if not even nicer).

Have a try!