Din Tai Fung

The food used to be so much better. Tonight, I felt their quality has gone down which is a contrast with their price.
The only thing I still enjoyed was the Xiao Long Bao (⁸⁄₁₀)
Both shrimp fried rice and Pork chop la mian (RM20+ each) were not as yummy any more. Rating: ⁵⁄₁₀ for both dishes.
Service was ok.

Guess what’s the Number One restaurant in Sydney? Yeap, it’s Din Tai Fung a Michelin star restaurant that has a branch right in Empire Subang. It’s interesting to note that their prices aren’t that much higher than your other neighboring restaurants with an average of below Rm20 per dish? Known very well for their Xiao Long Bao, it’s practically a must to order when eating here. My favorite dish would probably be their braised beef brisket with la mien. The beef is very tender and the soup is absolutely tasty! I always drink up all the soup whenever I have this dish. Another really good dish is the prawn with salted egg yolk and golden pumpkin with salted egg. Both are basically the same type of dish with a different content. The prawn and pumpkin covered with the salted egg is really amazing, something I’ve never seen anywhere else.

Din Tai Fung is a Michelin starred dim sum restaurant that gets my vote any day. They are famous for their Xiao Long Bao which is a soup dumpling with minced pork. Remember not to place it on your spoon delicately before poking it, lest you waste the flavourful soup contained inside. For those of you who must have a rice dish wit your mains, I urge you to try the garlic fried rice. Being a Michelin starred restaurant, the prices are of course higher than your usual dimsum stall but it definitely does not have the fine dining kind of price range. Their Empire outlet can sometimes have a queue outside on weekend lunch hours.