Night Out: Din Tai Fung, Shanghai

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Din Tai Fung is an award-winning restaurant originating in Taiwan, specialising in xiaolongbao (small steamed buns).^[1] Outside its native Taiwan, Din Tai Fung also has branches in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the United States and Thailand.

The characters in the name mean: 鼎, a type of cooking cauldron; 泰, peaceful; and 豐, abundant.

During my short visit to Shanghai, my friends and I saw to it that a visit to Din Tai Fung is on our itinerary.  And we were just so lucky to have the resto just down our hotel complex!  So on our first dinner in Shanghai, we all trooped down to Din Tai Fung at the Shanghai Centre.  We ordered a basket of their excellent xiaolongbaos, whose delicate folds and succulent skin make them arguably the best in Shanghai (regardless of shelling  out ten times the going rate of a stall on the street).  We ordered some fried rice, mushroom xiaolongbaos, some sweet and sour thing and the chicken in Shaoxing wine (which I later on recreated back in Manila- recipe to follow).  One of the best food finds in Shanghai!