Yea I got fooled. My eyes lit up when my friends told me we'd be hitting up DTF for dinner. I ate there thinking it was a legitimate DTF chain from Taiwan. However, as I started eating their staple dishes like the soup dumplings and spicy wontons I was not blown away. I found that odd at the time but I was so damn hungry it didn't matter. It didn't dawn on me at the time that this was not an official chain. I found out later via interweb that it is a copycat.
The service was quite lacking as well. It was very curt like a hole-in-the-wall Chinese place that just wants to keep the turnaround low. Service at a legitimate Din Tai Fung is white glove and very courteous.
I hope Toronto has better to offer for Shanghainese and dimsum. It would have been a 3-star review because the food was decent but the blatant copycatting of the famous name deserves a deduction.