Din Tai Fung

The strong suits of this place is the sides. The oriental salad is amazing, the texture is good and the sauce goes well with it. Their crispy prawn pancake is good as well. While it is famous for its xiao long bao (soup dumpling), I don’t think it’s anything too special. It’s just kind of meh. The fried rice wasn’t anything special as well, in fact I felt that it was lacking some salt and not very flavourful. But the pork on the rice was really good, cooked well. Overall it’s an alright Chinese restaurant, but I’d highly recommend trying their sides.

Very good customer service and attentive. Beef noodles is a little let down as the soup is too plain, I added some vinegar and chili to lift up the taste. Love their usual 小菜 and 小笼包. Crispy duck is a let down because the duck doesn’t go as well in the wrap. Fried rice is still as good.. overall a good experience as their service is really welcoming

The xiao long bao is good (4 stars), pork cutlet egg fried rice was okay (3 stars), dan dan noodles were average (3 stars), appetiser was pretty decent (3.5 stars), tea was okayish (3 stars), the fried prawn cake was pretty delectable (4.5 stars). The price was acceptable (3.5 stars). Ambience was okay too. Overall experience was quite average (3.5 stars)

Located on the 2nd level of JEM where you take the green MRT line and alight at Jurong East Interchange. Exit from the MRT leading towards JEM and walk towards the end. They are located beside the bridge in JEM connecting towards Westgate. Famous for their Tang Bao, this Taiwanese brand of restaurants was once awarded a Michelin star for their outlet in Hong Kong and with most franchises, their standards will drop over time. In my opinion, they are still good to visit for a meal every now and then but to queue for a significant amount of time is just not worth it. It's great that they streamlined a huge part of their operation by scanning a QR code at the entrance to be assigned a queue number (which I have provided in this post) so to not waste time standing at their entrance and ordering using a QR code given by the staff when you're seated is much more efficient than writing down on a huge piece of form which was practiced in the past. Their food are still good with new flavors and dishes every so often. I visited when they have the chilli crab Tang Bao and boy was I amazed, it's unique taste replicates the taste of an actual chilli crab in a Bao! I highly suggest you try it while they're available. The usual dishes from them are tasty but fantastic. I just hope that even with their streamlining, they would increase more manpower as there are times where I could not get any service crew for any help.