Jao Jan Feng

After our fun day around Sun Moon Lake, my uncle picked us up from the hotel for soup dumplings. One of my favorite restaurants in Taiwan is Din Tai Fung. Well, Jao Jan Feng is very similar to Din Tai Fung and some of the chefs from the original restaurant left the location in Taipei to open Jao Jan Feng in Taichung. The menu is the same and the branding is very similar:

They also have an open kitchen just like Din Tai Fung so people can watch the chefs create the soup dumplings:

We ordered the pork dumplings topped with shrimp:

Sauteed chives:

The pork soup dumplings:

And for dessert, we ordered Ken’s favorite, steam buns filled with black sesame:

The food at Jao Jan Feng was good but not as good as Din Tai Fung. We went around 8pm and it was very quiet in the restaurant (people eat much earlier in Taiwan because they go to the night markets after dinner for more snacks!) There have been a lot of copycats opening up because Din Tai Fung is such a successful restaurant; it reminds me of Peter Luger’s and all of the restaurants that have started because of their success!