Too many dumplings!

Since i finally had a meal without my family, i decided to spoil myself with a dumplings feast at Din Tai Fung, a famous soup dumpling chain all over Asia. Apparently, C's home in Taipei is next to the original store, but we'll see how much better they can be because the ones here are pretty deeeeelish!

I usually have a standard menu when i eat here alone, the string beans with ground meat, 6 xiao long bao (soup dumplings) and a zha jiang mian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zha_jiang_mian)... but today i felt like dumplings so i had the following!

6 Xiao Long Bao

No commentary needed on these babies! delish. I usually bite a hole in the top then directly pour vinegar into the dumpling... i know, I'm like a pregnant woman -_-

6 Fish Dumplings (forget what kind of fish ><)

I was very curious about these and they were actually pretty good! Very light (100% fish chunk with some ginger strings) and there was a surprisingly tasty broth in each dumpling. Not a salt bomb like most dumplings and no extra vinegar needed (though of course i added some)

6 Shrimp and Pork Dumplings

This is a pretty standard dumpling at Chinese restaurants but DTF really elevated these... skin perfect as usual but the difference was the broth in each dumpling. i don't know how they do it, but the broth is a shrimpy/porky mix and it is DEEELISH.

And since i'm me, I had a giant plate of spinach too.

Spinach with garlic is spinach with garlic. Tastes like you'd imagine. Ate the whole plate -_-

Total bill was like 55 MYR which is >USD20... Not so cheap now that i think about it haha... but YUM! My type of comfort food! Don't worry C, I still had space for dessert ^^ which was ALSO taiwanese! Green Tea and grass jelly mmmm