Din Tai Fung

Unclaimed

I think this restaurant got a Michelin star in Shanghai and it’s very well deserved. The place is very clean very nice and very luxurious feel. Waiter are very nice and speak English very well. The food is also very amazing. Their signature dish is the xiao long Bao but the chicken soup and crab minced tofu are also very good. Highly recommend this place although it might be more expensive compared to your typical meal in china.

The vinegar wonton was amazing with green sichuan pepper flakes, very aromatic yet softly spicy, not the hot and numb feeling like the normal sichuan pepper feeling in other kinds of dish. Xiao long bao, the signature, is not a big hit for me. Sorry for not being a fan of fat meaty taste, but it's a deli anyway. The skin was perfectly made to store the meat juice inside. The first bite, I poured the vinegar on the spoon and bite the sauce onto the spoon, it was too much fatty feeling for me. I manage with other bites by chewing off a piece of the skin and pour vinegar in, then bite the whole thing, it's much more better ??? A good place to try. Price band is acceptable in such a location in Shanghai.

When you’re in Shanghai one of the must haves is an XLB. This place is known all over the world, but truthfully, there’s better XLBs here. The service is still top notch though, and they are super clean. This is also more expensive than most other places because you do pay for the brand. Overall, safe choice to start before you get adventurous. Note: be sure to use a different app to find the locations because Google maps is not entirely accurate.

Really wanted XLB (xiao long bao) and really enjoyed them here. We had a total of 9 each! Not much atmosphere but good soup dumplings! 55 to 65 RMB for 6 is probably expensive but they were very good.