Din Tai Fung - Santa Monica

Everything was mouth-wateringly delicious! We started off with the Cucumber Salad. Then then moved on to the Shrimp Kurobuta Pork handmade Dumplings, that I compulsively ordered after walking into the beautiful dinning room where they were making them fresh. I had the Shrimp Shrimp Fried Rice and Sharita had the Pork Chop Fried Rice.

The Vegetarian Hot Sour Soup was delicious, however there were maybe six noodles, all so soft that they broke apart when picked up with the chopsticks. :

Maybe because it was delivered to the wrong address and no longer fresh the soup was ok the beef was a little tough, the dumplings had a lot of dough around the edges and were just ok

Bok choy in the Braised Beef Noodle Soup was perfect in terms of crunchiness. Broth was very well balanced. Beef was tender and there was just enough. Comes with ginger which helped the after-meal experience.

Kurobuta Pork Xiao Long Bao (10 each) and Steamed Soup with Bone-in Chicken are pretty good. Egg Fried Rice was ok. Of course over priced.