[Travel] Visit to the Din Tai Fung flagship resturant in Taipei

I was in Taipei a couple of weeks ago and I took that opportunity to visit the Din Tai Fung flagship restaurant in Taipei. I have visited the Din Tai Fung in Arcadia several times but was never quite impressed with their Steamed Pork Dumplings. The flagship restaurant is where it all started so I was hoping to get the true taste of their world famous dumplings. This location is four stories but it's massively popular with tourists so we went there right when they opened to avoid the lines.

We got the Steamed Crab Meat and Pork Dumpling. It's a deluxe version of the Steamed Pork Dumplings that tests the chefs' skill of balancing crab flavor with pork.

A second visit to Tea Lane - good cheap eat

Went to Tea Lane again to try their lunch and yakitori. Their lunch combos are only $6 and it comes with a bowl of rice or noodles, a plates of steamed veggie and two sticks of yakitori. I picked minced meat over rice and my wife picked plain noodle. We got a total of two plates of veggie (same thing) and four different sticks of yakitori.

I was expecting minimalist minced pork and sauce over rice, but it came fully loaded with flavor egg and dried meat flakes. I like how many different things they try to put onto the bowl of rice. Every bite was never boring.

Tea Lane - interesting waffle and decent milk tea

The Avengers is the best superhero movie I have ever seen. Only Joss Whedon can bring all these disparate characters together into one cohesive (and rocking) movie. Go see it!