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Originally Posted by Verdasco
yikes! staying away. Went to the one in HK and i loved it! bounced the xiao long bao for a bit until it popped under my spoon  and the peanut butter noodles.. 
bellvue one was trash and there was like 15+ mexicans making the Xiao long bao LOL and it was trash. Xiao long bao @ dinesty richmond is good  |
When I heard that a DTF was opened up in Bellevue I instantly grabbed my foodie group and drove down there! I've heard stories of the DTF's in Asia being super popular and good!
Boy were we dissappointed ... they have an open kitchen with huge windows that you can peer into while waiting in line (yes there was about a 40min lineup because it just opened) ... and ... my first reaction was WTF because there was like 15 Mexicans crammed into that kitchen pumping out XLB's!... I was like "ok I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were properly trained by the real XLB masters here at DTF" ... and uhh ... yeah let's just say that there are easily dozen's of Shanghainese/Taiwanese restaurants in Vancouver that make much better XLBs and for much cheaper.
I ordered a Tan Tan noodles and it was the smallest bowl of noodles I've ever seen and it was like $9 and it tasted horrible!
I left the place thinking that DTF should just stay in Seattle if that is their standard of quality because they wouldn't even be able to compete with the local shops.