Melinda T.
Yelp
I went to Ding Feng Tang (keep wanting to type Din Tai Fung) tonight for an alumni gathering and am so glad to have discovered a terrific Chinese restaurant. My table mate who grew up in China affirmed that everything was delicious and authentic. We had 9 people so we ordered the family menu for 8 plus a few extra items, happy hour beers at $3 each, and I had the delicious lychee cocktail for a happy hour price of $7 (not a lychee martini, even better!)
From the family menu, we ordered the following plentiful food items and we each ended paying $30 including tip!
Hot & Sour soup - 4/5, very solid and delicious (Din Tai Fung's hot and sour is still the only one I've given a 5/5 to), could have chosen wonton or chicken wonton soup, I look forward to going back to try these
Appetizers - choice of three out of five options, we selected:
- cold spicy cucumber 4/5 because not that many thinly sliced cucumbers and not that spicy (for me)
- scallion pancakes 4/5 because they were too oily but still delicious
- wontons in chili oil 4/5 because I think there were only four maybe five and if this is for a family of 8 that doesn't really work
Soup dumplings - 5/5, choice of three types with 5 dumplings in each: pork, chicken, crabmeat & pork; served with vinegar and ginger, steaming hot and filled with soup, we ordered one of each. I much prefer these to Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao's soup dumplings.
Skewers - 5/5, choice of four types: beef, lamb, chicken, shrimp, we ordered one of each
Vegetable - 5/5, bok choy (very small bok choy) which we ordered, we did not get the mapo tofu, chinese broccoli, or string beans but I look forward to returning to try them
Fried rice - 5/5, choice of vegetable or house version, we ordered the house
Noodles - 5/5, choice of cold hot chili noodles or grandmom's noodles which we ordered, perfectly chewy noodles with oil, garlic, green onions. Super simple and simply delicious!
Chef's Choice - 5/5, we could order any one of 15 some dishes, we chose the twice cooked pork and were not disappointed. It was a little spicy for some at the table but it was exactly the taste I was looking for, yum!
ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS THE FAMILY OF & MENU, LOTS OF FOOD!
We also added these happy hour $5 items
- more skewers
- taiwanese popcorn chicken 5/5
and another vegetable dish
- eggplant in garlic sauce 5/5, not too greasy, great flavor
we finished by trying the taro pockets, red bean pockets, and rice cake with osmanthus - all were 3/5, nothing to write home about (but then again there are few chinese desserts that are worth writing about).
I look forward to returning to Ding Feng Tang and bringing my family and trying more dishes!