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| - If the spelling error is intentional, then that would explain the discrepancy in taste of the xiao lung bao (xlb) here and the din tai fung in taiwan, the original, and the ones in Hong Kong.
The xlb in the taiwan stores are drop dead great! Hong Kong slightly farther away. But the ones here although good, are only passable compared to the ones in asia. The taste is quite off and the soup is too hot. A perfect bun/dumpling should be eaten whole. no bitting. if it burns, it is wrong. (sounds sexual or sensual? intentional .... lol...)
All the other traditional stuff here is also very canadian-ized and good but not great... eg, beef noodles (a taipei classic), minced pork noodles, tan tan noodles, long beans, snow pea sprouts, chinese gyozi (pot stickers) ..... all getting to the poor level as we move down the scale...
And i remember coming here since the early 1990's, so... but had never been to the taiwan and HK stores before, till recently. What u don't know ....
it was however still very good value compared to asia, C$80 for 5 people! (standard in HK is C30 a person) .. but no booze here... no license? the real din tai fung would never have allowed that!
Din Tai Fung may just have to sue...... LA and Settle appear to be the only two official north american locations!
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