It may seem ungracious of me to write this, living as I do in a city where restaurants are opening at a world-beating rate, but there are some exciting rumours for Londoners, just in from Taipei. The exceptional Din Tai Fung restaurant franchise, which opened in Taiwan and spread across Asia to west coast America and Australia, is reportedly planning to open here. For those who have not yet eaten in one of the 112 branches, or sampled their Shanghai dumplings, let me explain my enthusiasm.
我住的城市,開餐館的速度是世界級的,寫這篇文章看起來原本沒什麼吸引力,但剛剛有一些來自臺北、能令倫敦居民興奮的傳言。在臺灣創立、一直擴展到亞洲、再到美洲西海岸和澳洲的鼎泰豐(Din Tai Fung)餐廳據報道將計劃在此地開張。爲了那些還沒有在其112間分店品嚐過它們的上海小籠包的人,讓我來解釋一下我的熱情。