Dinner at Din Tai Fung at the MBS Mall meant that we had to queue up. The picture above says it all--people would wait in line to eat at this restaurant. While the siao long pao is a Shanghainese invention, the Taiwanese and the Singaporeans have raised this to the level of a cutting edge art form. A whole team of rollers, meat stuffers and steamers scramble like an F1 pit stop team to churn out steamers full of this delicacy.
I liked the dimsum items, and the siao long pao is one of the better commercial ones that I have tasted. I heard that the chain was invited to set up shop in Manila, but the local meat suppliers couldn't pass the quality requirements. This is how stringent the chain views its product commitment, a welcome thing to foodies everywhere. The only drawback to eating here is that they don't accept reservations, which means first-come, first-served!
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