Whenever I'm in Singapore staying at Orchard Road, I'd make it a point to try out Din Tai Fung, a restaurant ranked as one of the top 10 restaurants in the world in 1993 by The New York Times.
I loved the pork dumplings as well as the beef brisket noodles. It's ass kicking goodness packed into a small explosive bowl of flavorful noodles.
(Somehow I can't upload the picture of the flavorful beef brisket noodles - I've uploaded it like a million times and yet no pictures appear. I'll try to upload them again soon)
Taken from Wikipedia:
Legend has it that the founder Bingyi Yang was born in Shanxi, China but moved to Taiwan in 1948 as a result of the Chinese civil war. After working 10 years at Heng Tai Fung, a cooking oil retailer, he found himself unemployed due the store's closing. Thus, he and his wife, Penmei Lai, founded Din Tai Fung (also a cooking oil retailer) in 1958. Around 1980, tinned cooking oil became prevalent, and business diminished drastically. In order to survive, Bingyi Yang and his wife began making and selling steamed buns (xiaolongbao) on the side. The buns were so popular that the store stopped selling oil and became a full-fledged restaurant in the 1980s. The original restaurant was located on Xinyi Road in Taipei City.
Good food comes from the least expected places :)
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