LMFAOOO THE GIRL(next to mike)'S LAUGH THO😂😂😂

Chicken that actually ran in the yard... That's hart do come by if you live in the city and really rare these days. Same goes for the rest of the animals we eat. Huge respect for the Taiwanese restaurant for providing such quality.

"The chicken is so tough if you run up to it in an alley you better run the other way because that chicken will whop you" Alright Mike you have made a lot of cringey jokes but this one has to be at the top LOL

Really enjoy your explanations for the flavor and taste of foods. Your food passion is contagious.

In Italian there is actually an old way of saying which sounds pretty similar "old hen, great broth" (gallina vecchia fa buon brodo)

thumbs up for going all the way to taiwan to bring us more awesome videos.

Nice review. learned a lot. We in fact will be heading out to Taiwan in June so this is really helpful. Thank you.

I love you dude , and I love your videos ✌💜

Nice video! The server that was talking about the older chicken for soup is correct, my dad always uses older chickens to make his herbal and traditional Chinese soups for the richer chicken flavour! This video makes me hungry!

Mikey, who would think that watching you eat would be so addictive? Please keep eating!

keep it coming baby oh yeah!!!

Nice job. Thanks for the review

Keep it up mike!!!

I absolutely love xiao long baos too! I'm from Vancouver and I'm wondering, which one in Vancouver were you referring to? :) Ps. I'm convinced to go to New York to try Kung Fu xiao long bao!

Din Tai Fung is a Taiwanese staple. And yes, I was very impressed with the services at the Taipei 101 branch. Excellent management and fully representative of the Taiwanese people's courtesy :)

Haha... your reaction! Now you've got me craving for Din Tai Fung!

I'm in LA and I find that all the mainland Chinese people here say Din Tai Fung is not good, and they prefer the Shanghai style restaurants like Long Xing Ji in San Gabriel. Taiwanese or Japanese people however, prefer Din Tai Fung. You also see a lot of non Asians at Din Tai Fung. I say they're both excellent, in different ways. Mike always complains the dumplings at Din Tai Fung are small compared to the NY ones but, I've eaten in Shanghai, the birthplace of soup dumplings, and they are the same size as the Din Tai Fung ones. Mike, have you been to Shanghai?

wait where's the link to the vlogs? love your videos man great work!!!

I love the "dumpling In the spicy sauce" dish he has on his right hand side. That sauce is amazing!

i like how the girls actually enjoy eating and dont really care about the camera.

Great video, I enjoy all kinds of dumplings

I have 3 work friends that are originally from Taiwan, both girls and guys are SO FUN to go out with for dinner- like an adventure!!

Simon and Martina came here and they loved it! funny to see another fave youtube here much later, must be a popular place!

I love to watch these videos

You crackme up. I'm watching your video and cracking up out loud!

Went to Din Tai Fung in Seattle this last weekend, it was amazing.

The chocolate soup dumplings in New York where amazing! Lol when i went home and told my grandmother!! The look she gave me 😲😱. Didnt think shed ever let me leave again.

This videos makes me hungry again

I ate at another location in Taipei. The chicken soup and fried rice were probably my favorite. I enjoyed the soup dumplings as well.

Old birds are often called stewing fowl or soup fowl because they are tough and require a lot of cooking to tenderize, if they get tender at all. However, their age makes for a phenomenally rich and tasty stock.

@Strictly Dumpling Hi Mike I also did try out the Din Tai Fung in L.A 1st times and then 2nd times in San Jose location at Westfield Valley Fair, but the food were tease great and I love it.

Been to Din Tai Fung, the wait is super long. It's honestly alright. I want to believe it's as good as people say it is. Next time you come to LA come to Mama Lu's Dumpling House! You will not be disappointed with the xiao long bao and make sure you order the beef roll., it's amazing.

all these dumpling videos makes me hungry!!!!

The trailer for the new movie “My Spy” came up before this video and now I can’t breathe. *I died of laughter and now I’m hungry because I’m watching Mikey eat my favourite food*

Hi, how about you giving us a shot tour of Taiwan and the street foods there..! Would love to see it. Thanks.

Mike, I've tried Din Tai Fung in US, Thailand, and Korea. After watching this video, I will go to Taiwan just to try it there!

Love your shirt!

Looks like Vancouver soup dumplings should still be on the top your list.. I remember how happy you looked in that video..

I love your videos.

Wow, thanks for explaining why the chicken in the soup is so tough! I also noticed that when I ate at DTF in Taipei and it's nice to know why. I LOVE the chicken Xiao Long Bao at DTF!! I hate it that they don't have that item at their US locations.

Hi Mike, can you please link all your channels in your channel tab here. That would make it easy for us to navigate. Love the video and your energy, as always. Thanks! :D

Thanks for these dim sum experiments :) They are my favorite food and I really appreciate your descriptions of taste and quality. about them! Too bad Marco Polo's trip only brought back ravioli to Italy, but that one was excellent, too ... hmmm ... I wonder what sauce the Italians used prior to the discovery of tomatoes in the "New World"?

man i wold love to triy all that you show on your show

Best soup dumplings I ever had was in Burnaby Crystal Mall by Vancouver. They had fried soup dumplings, but I like regular ones better.

If you ever go back to Taiwan, Id definitely recommend 永康街牛肉麵(idk if youve already made a vid there) imo best beef noodle in Taipei

thanks for sharing...your stories.

Mike I don't know if you'll see this comment, but which place in Vancouver did you find was best for soup dumplings? My favourite is Dinesty, so that's going to be my benchmark when I go to Taipei next month for comparison!

the spicy sauce at din tai fung (the one in the spicy noodles and wontons) is my favorite thing there its so damn good

I fist went here when I was like 8..... AND I STILL REMEMBER EVERYTHING

Hi Mike, great video! I have only been to Din Tai Fung in Australia and I felt it was a bit over hyped. I actually live and am from NYC and my favorite soup dumplings there are from Shanghai Deluxe Cafe on Mott St. in Chinatown. I'd love to compare that to your favorite place. I don't believe I have been to Kung Fu Xiao Long Bao, but I have to try it now!

I tried Din Tai Fung in Taiwan as well and I also thought they were just okay, but the truffle soup dumplings they had were amazing! It's 3 or 4 times the price of the regular xiao long bao but they were sooo good.

Ding Tai Fung is def the BEST in taipei so have to come doesnt matter if you try it in another country I think you need to come to taipei again, i watched all ur vlogs on taiwan, gotta show what we r really made of

Did you ever attempt to make this before? Soup dumpling

Hi like your channel there some good stuff on here. Where was the place in Vancouver that you went for soup dumplings?

Cool. ate at the restaurant near Dongmen MRT station in Taipei a little over a week ago. Less than 2 blocks from where I was staying and was really great dumplings. Lot's of soup. The Truffle and pork was really worth it. Glad you got to Taipei.

in Taipei people don't eat that much hot sauce.. but if you head south to maybe Taichung people eat more hot oil and such..

Really honest review Mike! Told by everyone how good DTF is, tried the one in London, so pricey n disappointed.

I'm waiting for you to try the places in Toronto. There are a lot of awesome places :)

Mike, my son and I are traveling to Taiwan in a few short weeks, what are some MUST DO things to do in Taiwan. We'll be there a week, and we're traveling to Changhua, Kaohsiung, and Taipei. Thanks!

Taiwanese doesn't go to Din Tai Fung much. The food there is a bit expensive and not that tasty. Soup dumpling is a street food, you don't go to a fancy restaurant to eat that. As a Taiwanese, I would recommend tourists to go Tainan City to get some soup dumplings. The price and taste are better but you have to get your own sauce and the restaurant owners are probably speaking mandarin only. :)

Howdy. I dug this video. I didn't quite catch the name of your favorite soup dumpling joint in NYC. What was it?

The one in Seattle is amazing! Love Din Tai Fung!

Yay! Another video for me to cry to as I eat my ramen noodles in college... ._.

I actually ate there before, their food is delicious. They also have a wonderful jerky stand store right outside that restaurant! Hope you tried their jerky.

I m watching this video eating THE mango jelly and Feng li su. It's so good! mango jelly...OMG

All of those servings in Taiwan are smaller than at the Din Tai Fun's in LA. And for good or ill, the USA is amazing for absorbing cultures and cuisines. There is a Din Tai Fun in Arcadia CA. just a few blocks from where I grew up - and a quarter of the the wait staff are young white kids, and they are learning Chinese and committed to the cuisine and the culture. I think that is amazing. When I was young in the 1970s, those same white kids were working at the bowling alley.

Come over to Singapore one day! We have the greatest variety of food you will ever find, and plenty of dumpling restaurants too!

All of the food you eat looks so good but how do you stay in shape do you run or ride a bike

Din Tai Fung is on my bucket list. I live in the UK though.....also first!!

Legendary video

Hey mike, when are you gonna come to Inner Mongolia? You know that 羊肉烧卖 is super awsome!

Thanks, Mike! Clark

The food looked wonderful.

The chicken is tough because it is free range and older. You want old chickens for soup because they are tough and need longer cooking time and more flavor is cooked out to the broth.

I miss taiwanese food so bad! Check out Mango Cha Cha ice desserts, Coco bubble tea, 台湾早餐，Penghu island cactus products, the egg tarts at this bakery on the main street in the Neihu District, Chili Hunter ice cream in Jiaoxi resort town on the east coast (the hot pot hangover is real)

My relative who has frequents DTF for over 30 years still swears by the 東門 East Gate, original shop location. She is a die hard who doesn't trust any other location. Of course, it is a tiny place. The wait is really long and you'd have to content with truck loads of tourists. But it is somewhat of a pilgrimage for many. BTW, Taiwan influenced dumpling tends to focus on the fresh veggie, because it produces it all year long. Veggies are much higher quality in Taiwan than the US. Veggies sometimes costs more than meat in Taiwan because it is always farm fresh.

re: "never seen chicken soup dumpling [in new York]"I live In Sunset Park Brooklyn, and there's a Shanghai mostly Soup Dumpling stall in the Fei Long food court there, and they have chicken and pork soup dumplings there. Maybe even exclusively chicken soup dumplings, but my memory ain't sharp at the moment.I've been living a life of minimal travel within New York the last few years, so I don't know too many Chinatown and Flushing joints at the moment, but the Shanghai stall in Fei Long is low profile but I think it's solid.

I grew up on a poultry farm in PA. My grandparents ran it. We ate beef on Sundays when most people ate chicken (mid-20th century) because, of course, the eggs and the poultry sales were our business. We got to eat chicken only when the "layers" were too old to lay eggs any more and were too tough to sell in the market which featured our fowl. That's when my grandmother made wonderful soups and stews with those "old lady" birds. Chicken pot pie, chicken and dumplings, chicken noodle soup, chicken rice soup along with permutations from the rare turkey we slaughtered. Tough birds = flavorful stocks. Your friend is quite correct.

Please visit Din Tai Fung in Vegas next

That joke about the tough chicken and the dessert is funny😂

If you are in Taipei 101 and like pineapple cakes. The best I ever had, I bought in a store on the observation deck. I forgot the name, but there is only one there (on the deck, there are plenty downstairs) and the cakes were amazing.

love your honesty again but not much of a detail to the ambiance so i hope you make some comments about interior too because i love when you take a picture of those restaurant in Korea and of course Japan. Awesome design plus great food is what i would love to look in a restaurant.

that's true about using older chickens = better soup stock. You used to be able to buy "stewing hens" in the grocery stores where I live but you never see them anymore

that looks delicious, now I know what to order next time I'm in a Vietnamese restaurant. Your chop stick skills are great, you think you can make a tutorial on chop sticks, I'm not that great with them

I live my life through Mike. This is actually quite sad.

I actually had a taste of their little dumplings in Taipeh just to check out what's making them so popular with the local and tourists. After eating there, I still prefer the little dumplings from Shanghai River in Richmond BC. The skin wrapper is thinner, more soup and tastier.

The Michelin star people randomly picked a dumpling place that is relatively clean and above average food in Taiwan. There are a handful of places in Taipei I liked more than Din Tai Fung but they are a bit more crammed, dirty, and not as foreign-friendly as Din Tai Fung. They are also significantly cheaper and dont charge mandatory gratuity /my 2 cents

Never had it before but looks delicious :)

i love DTF

Mike, how come you didn't try the fried rice there ??? I thought their fried rice are pretty famous too !

Omg I want everything here!!

would love to try one day

what was that place that you mentioned in Vancouver? And what place do you is best in NYC so I can try it when I go please.

I think you need to give the usa one another try I work next to the one in Arcadia mall location it's so fancy looking and it's very nice the menu is all updated and the menu has a lot I love the rice cakes and chicken. The spicy wontons. Won ton soup .. soup dumplings kimchi dumpling omg etc...

Man i live in la and i always wondered how the chain here for din tai fung was different from the one in taiwan after the simon and martina video, its just so expensive though ive been wanting to find a cheaper place or somewhere with better dumplings

From my own experience, everything in Din Tai Fung is of exceptional quality

i love those dumplings ! with chili soy sauce

Soup Chickens are old chickens. Chicken in the US is usually raised in confined spaces and is less than a year old, which means it's tender, but it hasn't developed as much cartilage or muscle. There are recipes that call for grown hens, capons (neutered roosters over a year old) and for roosters. Different texture of meat, allegedly different flavors, though honestly I'm not sure how one would tell the difference between a grown hen or a capon.

about the chicken soup in slovakia there are two different types the normal chicken soup(kurací vývar) and the second one that you tried (slepačí vývar) we don't eat the meat when we cook the second one

Why am I so addicted looking at you eating things when I'm starving ? :|