Post by Blue on May 19, 2013 0:30:41 GMT
On top of this 101 Best Restaurants Asia list is Ding Tai Fung:
www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-restaurants-asia
Still remember first encountering Ding Tai Fung back in 1985 when it was one of those small typical "mainlander" restaurants found between DongMen Market and Hsinsheng (Xinsheng) Road. Relatively speaking, not too many people frequented there for lunch until free marketing in the form of a New York Times review changed everything. Funny thing is that they opened more branches in certain Asian countries than in the home country of Taiwan when they started to expand. Also ironic that they opened branches in Shanghai: Ding Tai Fung is Shanghai food (or more precisely Jiang-Zhe cusine) when it's not even a native son/daughter of Shanghai. But not too surprising since I've eaten better Peking Duck in Taipei and even Hsinchu than in Peking (WG: Pei-ching / Pinyin: Beijing).
You can even purchase frozen Ding Tai Fung food at Costco Taiwan.
Some forms of the best Chinese food were transferred to Taiwan when people fled from China to Taiwan at the end of the Nationalist-Communist Civil War. Some of those who fled even brought sauces from stew/braised meat because there's this practice of using a small portion of the sauce of a previous stew into a new stew. My maternal grandfather, who also fled, deeply regretted not bringing his cook with him to Taiwan (although my material grandfather did cook pretty well).
www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-restaurants-asia
Still remember first encountering Ding Tai Fung back in 1985 when it was one of those small typical "mainlander" restaurants found between DongMen Market and Hsinsheng (Xinsheng) Road. Relatively speaking, not too many people frequented there for lunch until free marketing in the form of a New York Times review changed everything. Funny thing is that they opened more branches in certain Asian countries than in the home country of Taiwan when they started to expand. Also ironic that they opened branches in Shanghai: Ding Tai Fung is Shanghai food (or more precisely Jiang-Zhe cusine) when it's not even a native son/daughter of Shanghai. But not too surprising since I've eaten better Peking Duck in Taipei and even Hsinchu than in Peking (WG: Pei-ching / Pinyin: Beijing).
You can even purchase frozen Ding Tai Fung food at Costco Taiwan.
Some forms of the best Chinese food were transferred to Taiwan when people fled from China to Taiwan at the end of the Nationalist-Communist Civil War. Some of those who fled even brought sauces from stew/braised meat because there's this practice of using a small portion of the sauce of a previous stew into a new stew. My maternal grandfather, who also fled, deeply regretted not bringing his cook with him to Taiwan (although my material grandfather did cook pretty well).
