Travel Food Tuesday - Din Tai Fung

XLB Heaven

After a once in a lifetime night of chilling with the king himself, Dave Chappelle. We wake up insanely hungry and out of options for some great eats. Luckily we snag one of the last reservations for Din Tai Fung at the Aria and i’m so happy we did.

With major munchies hitting my stomach, i’m checking off so many boxes on this menu. We ordering so many paper-thin xiaolongbaos aka soup dumplings aka your girl’s favorite dumpling. We ordered the crab, Kurobuta Pork, the potstickers and a red bean dessert xlb that was amazing.

All the xlb’s were filled with soup, with a thing paperlike carb vehicle that was perfectly wrapped. The texture of the dumpling was so smooth and made your eyes roll back to the back of your head. This may be the best XLB i’ll have in my life. 

Needed some greens as well on this meal so we had some string beans with garlic. As well as some carbs so we got the Noodles with diced beef and Szechuan peppers. The noodles were super thing and the flavor of the pepper was perfect.

Same goes for the Red Bean dessert XLB. It was a mochi red bean and just had the smoothest texture for a filling. Just amazing.

Nothing more to say about this experience other than my buddy complimenting me on how I downed an xlb so lovingly that when he said “muhhh mann” a man with his wife and 2 daughters inadvertently thought he was being complimented for having a sexy wife and even sexier progeny. Also seeing Chuck LIddell and Joe Rogan again from the night before was also nice to see. Enjoy the xlbs big guys!

Overall hilariously great nad tasty experience.

Sal says: Just Eat It (4.7/5)