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| - I have been eating at Ding Tai Fung for years for their xiao long baos. I heard rumours that this is not the real location from Shanghai, and in fact, the real franchise is called Din Tai Fung. Regardless, the quality of food has me convinced this is the real deal holyfield!
I love their crab and pork soup dumplings, the pan fried potstickers, the pork and leek soup dumplings, fried chicken, shanghai noodles, and dan dan noodles.
My last visit, I tried ordering the fried chicken, and the waitress looked at me as if I was crazy and claimed " we dont have fried chicken and we never sold it". Thanks to Yelp, I found a photo of someone who had ordered the dish, showed it to her, and she embarrassingly corrected herself and claimed it was a chicken cutlet plate. Maybe she is trying to hide the secret that although Ding Tai Fung is a dumpling house, they make some BOMB fried chicken. It comes with a side of marinated soy egg, rice, pickled mustard greens, and chicken-corn soup, all for under $10?!!!
Come here for some tasty soup dumplings, which warm you up on a cold day. I highly suggest you let them chill in a vinegar-soy sauce bath before eating. I assure you, that you will burn the roof of your mouth and end up spitting everything out. Yes, they are that Hot and my friend did not believe me.
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