Date visited: Last visit was before November 2008

I am not a sucker for Chinese food, but when I was first brought to DTF Paragon, I hooked on. I have been returning since. I also brought my mother and it is now her favorite restaurant.

Ok, so the restaurant appears to be always crowded and you can almost never get in without waiting in a queue. Their staff remains polite and generally efficient. Most importantly, their food quality is not compromised by the crowd of orders.

If you do not think much of their food, chances are, it is only because they don't suit your tastebuds. I have found their fare delicate, fragrant, light and never oily. They seem to take meticulous care in blending the ingredients of their recipes. Nonetheless, if you do not appreciate delicate food very well, you may find them so-so only.

My favorite is a cold chicken dish marinated in wine (don't know the name) that is often sold out if we order too late. I am allergic to chicken but I cannot resist this dish and their chicken broth. Suffer the allergy later lor. Other loves are their juicy xiaolongbao and egg fried rice. I have the impression that their noodles are rather ordinary though.

Given the quality of food served, DTF prices remain competitive. For a table of 4, we have never exceeded $100.

Heard from my friend that Din Tai Fung-Paragon is their best outlet, hence wanted to give it a try. I am actually not into chinese cuisine.

Queue was rather long as usual. However, the staffs are able to get us seated shortly.

Since, they are famous for the xiao long bao. Its a must try. Very juicy and tasty. Can fill the soup or source when u bite it. Other that the xiao long bao. The rest are pretty average.

Will be back only perhaps for the xiao long bao.

Wah.. I din realised that it is so bad.

I just wanted to highlight the good points about this restaurant, in case I forgot. We organised a birthday dinner gathering at DTF in paragon in early Sept. Me and another gf were early and we went in.

They showed us to our table and they actually are nice enough to bring several bag stands for us so that we can put our bags in the stands beside us and hence avoiding hoarding seats/ chairs. Very thoughtful. In fact,this point alone is enough to make me want to go back to DTF. it's the only place in Sg that gave us this service.

We ordered the usual xiao long bao and fried rice and hot & spicy soup and veggies and a couple of other dishes to share. Another girl friend came and she told them that she has the Citibank card and hence entitled to the crab dumplings which are quite nice actually.

The service is prompt and I am lucky that I'm quite pleased with my dining experience there, judging from the reviews here. :(

not very crowded at 4pm. Aussie boss wanted something light

good place for small talk while eating. service prompt

food is not bad

- drunken chicken appetiser
- crab dumplings (almost $14 for 10 pieces)
- fried rice
- stewed beef noodles
- red bean pao
- chicken soup

that's alot for 2. S$70

JWNY

Yup as the title suggests this is my first time reviewing and I've picked one of my favourite restaurants.

Went there for a celebration with my course mates, who're expecting some real good food since I was quite enthusiatic about it. Yet was quite disappointed that they didnt up-keep standards.

We were given seats quite promptly and had ours drinks order taken immediately. However, it took quite long (about 15 to 20 mins) for them to serve the tea and cold ice water. In fact, 2 glasses of warm water was not served at all but we didnt remind them about it since there's the tea.

First came the Wanton in Chilli Oil (names are purely based on my poor memory so may not be exact). Its an appetizer; just hint of spice and more sour actually. But the wanton skin is very soft and I enjoyed the sauce a lot.

The 2nd is Fried Rice with Pork Chop. Extremely salty pork chop! Eat more will kill kidneys wor... And a little on the dry side as well. Fried Rice not as silky as before. A little chewy and oily, maybe due to the pork chop on it.

Xiao Long Bao was the one that deviated the furthest. Really quite upsetting and to quote my friend: Nothing to shout about. Skin dry and meat salty.

Prawn Dumplings. Also skin dry. Nothing fantastic hence I can't quite recall taste hurhur.

Zha Jiang Mian didn't have enough sauce, which wasn't really nice in the first place.

Pork Ribs Noodles (heh ps bad translation but chinese name is Pai Gu Mian) was quite 'tasteless' according to my friends. Pork was also salty, in fact uncanny resemblance to the Fried Rice one.


DTF used to be really good a couple of years back, real sore about the decline of this great eatery. In fact, this outlet was better than the Wisma and Raffles ones. Although reviews were better for those, I decided to be stubbon and wells, that didn't pay off. Previously had this prawn mian xian (see pic below) which was quite good, but didn't try this time round.

PS: A waiter asked if we had the OCBC Credit Card right when he took our orders, and another when we foot the bill. The same waiter also went around asking if customers needed more ginger. Pretty attentive in these aspects but am still bothered by the long wait for drinks.