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Din Tai Fung is a Taiwanese restaurant chain specializing in Chinese cuisine, particularly famous for its xiaolongbao.Based in Taipei, Taiwan, Din Tai Fung also has branches in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
When the first Din Tai Fung opened in Taipei, in 1972, the restaurant had four tables. Its owners, the Yang family, lived upstairs. Fifty-three years later the Yangs oversee an empire that doles ...
Yang opened a small shop in Taipei with his wife in 1958 and named the store Din Tai Fung Oil Retail. [6] The store had two namesakes: Heng Tai Fung, the company the couple had been employed at, and Din Mei Oils, the company that supplied their oil. [7] They sold cooking oil and steamed Chinese soup dumplings called xiaolongbao. [8]
Xiaolongbao originated in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, where is created by Wan Hua Tea House during the years of Daoguang Emperor (1820 to 1850). It evolved from the guantangbao (soup-filled dumplings/buns) of Kaifeng, in Henan province, which was the capital city of Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960–1127). [5]
Bing-Yi Yang, the founder of restaurant chain Din Tai Fung, which helped popularize xiao long bao (soup dumplings) around the world, has died at the age of 96.
When Din Tai Fung opened its Glendale location at the Americana in 2013, the move was seen as a bit of a risk since it was the chain's first restaurant outside the San Gabriel Valley.
BreadTalk Group is the franchisee of Taiwanese Xiao Long Bao restaurant, Din Tai Fung. It opened its first restaurant in the upscale Paragon shopping mall and has opened other outlets in the island, including one in Bishan and another in the basement annex of Raffles City. Din Tai Fung has 8 branches in Thailand.
The San Jose location of Din Tai Fung, ranked as one of the world's best restaurants by the New York Times. In 2007, Westfield announced major expansion plans which would increase the gross leasable area to over 2,000,000 square feet (185,806.1 m 2), adding anchor stores Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus, 100 shops, and a 3000 space parking ...