Ding Tai Feng is supposed to be great but I’ve always been put off by the lines of Japanese and overseas Chinese tourists. Apparently, its on the “must do” list of every tour package itinerary and I’ve never seen it quiet. Don’t know the exact address, but its on the south side of Xinyi, and its b…

You should see how fast my hands move when service try to take the bowl away if there’s no wonton left. If only they had bread.

[image] BigDave: Head diving in and out to see if we had finished a dish Wow. Gone are the days where you spend hours just kind of sitting there trying to decide if you want to order more food (after waiting 260 minutes for a seat :joy:)

We are fast eaters anyway but every time i yried to talk to my wife, there was someone diving around the table. They didn’t ask me if i knew how to pour soysauce either. They are slipping.

My max wait time is 40. Any longer and i am eating in the food court.

[image] BigDave: They didn’t ask me if i knew how to pour soysauce either. They are slipping. Yup, slipping. They wanted to make sure you got the soy sauce-vinegar ratio right, something like 1-to-2. Speaking of pour, remember the expert tea pourer in the early days?

Do they still hold the scorching hot tea pot with a tea towel? I didnt pay attention.

A towel is really optional if the pot is porcelain, but in the early days, they used metal pots, which required the towel. The expert pourer would pour from something like half a meter away. It was a show in itself.

[image] Celeborn: I can’t say as much for the rest of the menu. An appetizer of sweet-and-sour ribs was more sweet than sour, and it arrived tepid. A stir-fry of black-pepper beef wasn’t appreciably different from what you’d get at P.F. Chang’s Do they sell those dishes here or are they tryin…

[image] Membrillo: If only they had bread. Do they have silver rolls? I’m not quite familiar with their menu nowadays, as there are other shops I prefer. I will say though that their chili oil (loaded up with numbing pepper) is good, very good. :yum: Guy

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