Din Tai Fung

I drove 40 min from Los Angeles to Din Tai Fung restaurant with YJ. YJ was very tired but she's forced to go there because of nice weather. Sunshine is back!!


I wanted to taste XLB. Lucky day! We didn't wait more than 5 minutes to go in.
Our first impression on this restaurant. Pretty clean! it was beyond our expectation. Chinese restaurants is supposed to be little our of shape, huh? Tea came in very clean. Even restroom was clean. I bet the taste of food will be under 3 out of 5.

We ordered port& crab dumpling, shirimp & pork dumpling, shanghai rice cake(?). wanted small dumplings w/ soup but sold out. then ordered beef noodle soup.


every thing was so-so. nothing spectacular. We took out 2 pcs of Red bean bun when we left. red bean bun was fantastic. But YJ didn't like it. (She didn't eat much and she is still hungry.)

In the other side of the shopping mall, I found there is JJ bakery. I was so happy and shop little bit of bread (curry beef bread, tiramisu cake). looks good. smells good. I guess JJ bakery is like Torrence Bakery. good hunting today. but din tai fung was big disappointment today. I'll never come back.