Din Tai Fung in Seattle

I sometimes read or hear about people who come here but order things other than soup dumplings. My recommendation is too only order xiao long bao, at least two orders per person. They used to have snow pea vines so that was my side but the last few times I have asked it's no longer on the menu.

I literally found out right before coming to T-Mobile Park for a game that there was a Din Tai Fung here. Of course, given how wildly overpriced and lacking in quality stadium food is in general, I was quite skeptical as to whether this DTF was any good. Turns out...yeah, I was right. The problem is that Din Tai Fung is notably known for their famous xiao long bao, but whoever designed this extremely limited menu didn't include them. Seriously, the menu has chicken wonton soup, chicken wontons with spicy sauce, chicken fried rice, vegetable and mushroom buns, and pork buns for food along with boba. Yeah, not a very inspiring set of options. Anyways, I went with the chicken wontons with spicy sauce, which were $15! So yeah, the price sucked even for stadium food. The food was...uh, well...to call this DTF might be disrespectful to actual DTF. This was pretty sad. They honestly felt like frozen wontons that they literally took out of a bag and threw in a DTF takeout bowl. The food wasn't bad, but there are certain expectations when DTF is involved. Service was super quick, which is about the only good thing I can say about this DTF location. We put our order and it was ready instantly. I knew I was getting food from here because I wanted the novelt...

I love steamed pork buns.  I bought a couple pork buns for $9 and they were a real disappointment.  Could be better.