Din Tai Fung is worldwide now in quite a few major cities.
Either way, it’s a tourist/family-friendly restaurant for people to go out and have a good time, not to get full.
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Yea it’s basically eating at a Michelin 5 star restaurants. Everything is overpriced there and you pay for the experience, not the food.
I was agreeing with you trying to point out that everyone eats cabbage as far as I know
Oh well, next time I’ll bring my own cabbage.
“Excuse me, can I get an empty plate?”
No cabbage fee in Taiwan right?
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The top award Michelin gives is three stars.
Din Tai Feng is not one of those restaurants, it’s a competent Chinese place with multilingual staff, impressive marketing, consistent delivery of dishes, and centrally located restaurants. You’re paying for all those things, not for a life-changing culinary experience.
Guy
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i disagree, in chef restaurants you have more creativity in the food compared to regular restaurants. A chef is a person that can create recipes, a person that cooks to a recipe is a cook 
All they have to do is get Tom Cruise to visit and then they’ll be set for life.
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Jhubei, in my limited experience, seems to have a bunch of fancy looking but underperforming expensive restaurants. I hope the scene there is improving, but consider me generally unimpressed, especially compared with what’s available in Hsinchu City proper.
Guy
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Whenever I see “DTF” I think of a different meaning… 
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Yea very true. But when you have the nouveau riche crowd. Expected.
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Not about getting full?
I wanted to get full and eat like a westerner I would go to KFC, sadly no cabbage on offer there.
It’s about the price of a basic cheap dish being vastly overpriced.
The other food, shrimp fried rice, da tang? Noodle and of course soup dumplings I said was nice.
Rabbit food for 230 I don’t think so.
Also note I had some cabbage with my oyster omelette 101 and whole deal was 80 less.
I guess you can complain to ding tai fung or consumer bureau. Or don’t order cabbage. Also what does the cabbage look like? Is it just cabbage or was it well flavored? They wouldn’t offer it if people thought it was poor value especially the restaurant is quite famous.
I’ve learned this other meaning today. I used DTF because the person I responded to did.
DTF also offers this sausage with cheese filling that explodes in your mouth when you bite down on it…
I didn’t see DTF on the menu 
That’s the KTV special or the tea house meal.
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I was there! He spent a total of 5 minutes in the place, made one xiao-long bao with the laoban and then left.
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Easiest 200k he has ever made.
Most expensive xiao long bao ever, no doubt, but it’s worth it … for DTF’s boss.
It’s funny. I’ve eaten xiao long bao at quite a few places including at this very famous place in Shanghai where I had to queue for one hour. You would think that a place filled with locals queuing up would serve some of the best xiao long baos ever, but no it was just an OK place.
Ironically, when I still lived in the Bay Area, I found a restaurant in Daly City that served one of the best xiao long baos that I have ever eaten. https://www.yelp.com/biz/koi-palace-daly-city. Best dim sum in North America IMHO. And it’s authentic … i.e. their service can be on and off, but the food’s always solid.
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