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DTF has a no reservations policy and all members of the group must be present before the waitress will assign a table. Locals are familiar with DTF's house rules but for the uninitiated, tge Michelin starred restaurant's seemingly inflexible attitude towardscustomers may seem high handed and offensive. More so at Bedok Mall which is teeming withhordes of people on weekends while its corridors are very narrow. Think long narrow corridors with plenty of small shops as in older shopping centres li
DTF has a no reservations policy and all members of the group must be present before the waitress will assign a table. Locals are familiar with DTF's house rules but for the uninitiated, tge Michelin starred restaurant's seemingly inflexible attitude towardscustomers may seem high handed and offensive. More so at Bedok Mall which is teeming withhordes of people on weekends while its corridors are very narrow. Think long narrow corridors with plenty of small shops as in older shopping centres like City Plaza, Far East Plaza and Queensway. Bedok Mall is compact and tightly laid out, unlike its equally new sister Westgate which is also operated by CapitaMalls Group. There is scant space for diners waiting for a table and we had to circle around B1 whilwle waiting for our Q no to be displayed.Once we were seated, service was brisk and we were primed on 20mins wait for our food.The kitchen staff was racing against the clock to handcraft the bite sized dumplings, put them in bamboo baskets and steam them in bulk to meet the orders by endless stream of hungry customers. Skip the signature minced pork xiaolongbao as DTF's branches in Sg do not execute them as well as the DTF's in Taiwan. In Sg, the dumpling dough/skin is not as fine and therelatively larger proportion of fatty pork used in DTF's xiaolongbao fillings as compared with other restaurants in the same genre such as Imperial Treasure and Paradise Dynasty, results in DTF's xiaolongbaoleaving diners with a mildly unpleasant porky aftertaste in the mouth after every bite. Order the
Chicken xiaolong bao $9.80++ like we did and you can't go wrong.
Steamed pork and shrimp dumpling or jiao zi $10.30++ that we ordered were tasty as well, juicy dumplings filled with half a tiny shrimp and minced pork. Forget the steamed pork and vegetable jiao zi as there is hardly any meat and the minced leafy veg filling tasted limp and bland. Chicken xiaolong bao, shrimp & pork jiao zi together with a plate of their de riguer egg fried rice $6.80++ and Sichuan style sour spicy soup $6++ were more than sufficient to leave the three of us satiated. Our only grouse was that the chinese tea served here was way too dilute almost like tea tinted water without any tea flavour.
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