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A big group gathering of 8 people for a dumpling feast at Din Tai Fung. Overall service was okay, food was good. Felt that some items were a bit expensive. I think its good to visit if in a big group, otherwise if only 2 people maybe a bit pricy.
🔆LOCATION🔆
Din Tai Fung finally opened its doors in Melbourne in 2015 after they opened various franchise stores in Sydney. Din Tai Fung is situated on the 4th floor of Emporium Shopping Centre right smack back in the CBD. Conveniently to get to, and many ways to access from Little Bourke Street, and Lonsdale Street entrances. The restaurant is actually quite big but from the front counter entry point it does look very tight and small. Its only when you walk in further to the back then it is more spacious. I always request to be seated in the back dining area for this reason. As being seated at the front area there’s just too many people.
🔆SERVICE🔆
I wouldn’t say the service is that great. The staff don’t seem to have much manners or appropriate customer service skills. Training definitely is required. Even though we are a big group of 8 people, still need to be friendly and courteous but she was abrupt and a little rude.
🔆MENU/PRICE🔆
We ordered the following to share, and we pretty much polished it all up.
Pork Xiao Long Bao (8), $14.90
Vegetarian dumplings (6), $10.90
Vegetarian Egg Fried Rice with mushrooms and truffle oil $13.90
1 x Pork Steam bun $3.00
Pan fried dumplings (6), $15.90
Chicken dumplings (6), $11.90
Green Bean Mince Pork, $17.90
Pork Dumplings (6), $10.80
2 x Truffle Dumpling, 4.90 each
Braised Beef Noodle Soup, $16.90
Spicy vegetarian won ton, $11.90
🔆VERDICT🔆
We definitely ordered quite alot of food to eat, but it was a great opportunity to try different dishes. I think the most memorable was the pan fried pork dumplings, they were cooked very well with nice crispy base and juicy flavoursome meat filling.
The pork xiao long bao was also quite good. Surprisingly the vegetarian egg fried rice with mushrooms and truffle oil was very tasty and we all loved it so much we ordered another serve as 1 wasnt enough between 8 people.
The green beans with mince pork was tasty, but the beans were way over cooked and shriveled up.
The restaurant is located in the Emporium and occupies half of its fourth floor. It is comparable to other Chinese restaurants in terms of quality, quantity, staff hospitality and location.
The food is authentic and tastes like Taiwan and southern China cuisine, and it also includes some popular foods in eastern china, for example steamed buns, which are of a desirable standard. The environment is excellent, with a number of sofa seats and window seats. However, this restaurant is highly popular during mealtimes, and in weekends waiting is required. Overall this is a fabulous restaurant.
Coming from Malaysia, Din Tai Fung is one of the premium restaurants we have and serves pretty decent quality food Hence, I decided to try the Melbourne’s branch.
Ordered:
Shanghai Style Drunken Chicken $10.9 🐓
Fried Pork Chop Noodle with Spicy Sauce $17.9 🍜
Sweet & Sour Pineapple Pork $18.9
Egg Fried Rice with Shredded Beef $13.9 🍛
Crumbed Chicken Fillet $10.9 🍗
Pork Dumpling (Xiao Long Bao) $14.9 🥟
I liked everything we ordered except for the xiao long bao as I've tasted better at Shanghai Street. Other than that, everything else was good especially the sweet & sour pineapple pork and the Crumbed Chicken Fillet.
Ordered pork chop with spicy noodles, fried chicken chop with spicy noodles, xiao long bao, stir fried kung po chicken noodles and a pork and prawn wanton noodle soup. Everything tasted REALLY good but the wanton noodle soup had a strong flour smell from the noodles. Will definitely go again. Noodles are cooked perfectly well and price is reasonable too.
I’m a huge fan of DTF, have been to several branches in Taipei, Singapore, China and now in Melbourne. It does not disappoint. Beautiful Xiao Long Bao. All other dumplings delicious too, as well as beef and prawn. Tried the dessert this time it was good too.
Avathar Vishnu Venkatesh
+5
One of the most delicious chilli noodles dumplings and Fried rice ever!!
So many flavours with amazing textures and it was just perfect! The service from the staff were on point and went through our requests and suggested some great dishes - which we loved!!
Chilli noodle soup & chicken dumplings - Perfect texture with great quantity. It just has the right amount of flavours and texture - 10/10 !!
Fried rice with Shrimp - perfect taste with amazing flavours again! It is just fried rice but, it tasted just delicious and amazing!!
Totally we cannot wait to be back to try other dishes!!
Friends and I went on a Friday night, it was busy but we got a seat straight away. Ordered Xiaolongbao, Liushabao, veggie fried rice with truffle, Spinach with garlic and mango pudding for dessert. Service was really quick and friendly. Flavours were lovely. Great location in the middle of the city. Will be back.
Food was delicious and came out fast, took a long time to get service but it is a huge restaurant and it was busy. Came with a group of 10 and we were all satisfied and had leftovers. Slightly pricey but you’re paying for the name as well .
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Actual rating is really 3.5 but Zomato doesn't give that option!
A team of 4, we set out to try out Din Tai today. When I lived in Singapore this used to one of my go-to places for the sheer variety of food available. the menu here in Melbourne isn't as extensive but nonetheless gives everyone quite a few options to try. A little on the expensive side but the good quality of food makes up for it. We ordered -
Mango Bubble Latte - 5/5 - The mango bubbles were amazing, the drink had right kind of sweetness. Loved it so much ordered anothe one!
Pork Xiao Long Bao - 4/5 - Perfect flavours and the pork was well cooked. For some reason they weren't hot (temperature) when they arrived?
Chicken crumble fried rice - 3.5/5 - The chicken was fried to perfection and when I added chilli oil it took it to another level. The rice however was very mild in flavour compared to the other one.
Minced pork fried rice - 3.5/5 - The rice was cooked nicely, flavourful but there was no wow factor. For both fried rice dishes, we felt the quantity was a bit less. If you just eat fried rice you will leave on an empty tummy.
Chicken dumplings in noodle with spicy sauce - 3.5/5 - The noodles were perfect, the dumplings were perfect. the quantity was perfect. But the star of the dish 'spicy sauce' was a bit salty for our liking.
We went for lunch on Saturday and had to wait only 5 min which was good but the service was super slow. Half our table's food arrived first and the other half took another 15min and a nudge to the waiter. If you are not sharing food it becomes quite awkward.
Overall I will go again to try more from the menu but not rushing back any time soon.
Food were amazing and the service is extremely effective. We ordered Zha Jiang noodles and they were awesome. It probably needs more flavouring, but I think it’s pretty good. The chicken soup on the other hand was the bomb, and I think it’s definitely a must try soup.
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