Din Tai Fung mid-week lunch!
A Din Tai Fung lunch: pork chop fried rice, dan dan noodles, pan-fried dumplings and a spicy noodle soup. Bedok.
A mid-week treat with BB at Din Tai Fung in Bedok, the Taiwanese dumpling chain. 🥟😋
What we had:
- Pork chop fried rice: egg fried rice with a sliced fried pork chop
- Dan dan noodles: noodles in a savoury-spicy sesame-chilli sauce with minced pork
- Pan-fried dumplings (potstickers)
- A spicy noodle soup with peanuts
DTF is always reliable, and we spread the order across a few favourites. The pork chop fried rice was the comforting anchor, fluffy egg fried rice with each grain separate, topped with a thin, crisp-edged fried pork chop, simple and very moreish.
The dan dan noodles were the punchy one, springy noodles tossed in that nutty sesame-and-chilli sauce with savoury minced pork on top, the kind you keep going back to. The pan-fried dumplings brought the crispy element, juicy filling inside a skin with a lacy golden bottom, lovely dipped in DTF’s ginger-vinegar. And the spicy noodle soup with peanuts was the warming, slurpy bowl to round it off.
A nicely varied, well-executed lunch, the kind of sit-down break from the usual hawker rotation that DTF does so dependably.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Comforting pork chop fried rice, nutty dan dan noodles and crispy dumplings, reliable DTF. Would re-visit.
