Ding Tai Fung

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"Yes, it’s a knockoff of the uber-popular Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung, but this restaurant’s steaming-hot, handmade xiao long bao are superb nonetheless. You can even watch the cooks make the soup dumplings through a window at the back of the restaurant. Plus, its Shanghai-style dim sum menu has a mind-boggling array of items — pan-fried pork buns, wontons in chile sauce, pork pie with turnip — but vegetarians can have a field day here as well with king mushrooms over stir-fried bean leaves and, yep, veggie steamed dumplings. DTF is inside the First Markham Place shopping complex (see separate listing). [$$]" - Faiyaz Kara