I’ve been making some variation of a marinated cucumber salad for as long as I can remember. It’s a staple at many of the Chinese restaurants I frequent in the San Gabriel Valley. It typically ...

The eatery had humble beginnings but has become an international phenomenon. At any given location, time, or day of the week, there is always a long line of customers waiting outside of Din Tai Fung, ...

I have a friend who has eaten at seemingly every Chinese restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley, enlightening me every day on his newest food cravings. More often than not, they involved Din Tai Fung.

I’m standing in front of a Din Tai Fung located inside a shopping mall in Taipei watching a team of seven masked chefs in stiff white coats behind a glass window — kneading, filling, weighing, dusting ...