If you're in Taiwan, you know about Din Tai Fung. It's a huge chain there. A few years ago they started to make inroads into America and, now if you live in L.A., you've at least heard of it (if you haven't, get out a little more).
One of Jonathan Gold's favorites and one of the consistently top-rated restaurants in the area, Din Tai Fung is known for it's delicious soup dumplings.
Before the dumplings, however, Letty likes their Shanghai rice cake even better. With slivers of pork, spinach, and shallots over slices of compressed rice cake, the flavors of this dish are just intense. Add with a little of their hot chili oil, and you've got a meal.
The dumpling, xao long bao, are filled with pork and broth. I like to poke a little hole in them with the chopsticks, let marinate in a little mixture of rice vinegar and that delicious chili oil, pop the whole thing in my mouth and bite down for a hot, spicy, flavor explosion.
The dumplings are legendary and deservedly so. They're also cheap, well under ten dollars for an order of ten.
To summarize, we get to have great food in one of the area's top restaurants, and get out for around twenty dollars in damage. Not bad at all.
The location we go to is at 1108 S. Baldwin Ave., in Arcadia. There are five locations in California and two in Washington.
Darryl
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