Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) ranked No. 1 on “101 Best Restaurants in Asia” list!!!

Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐), a Taiwanese eatery famed for its dumplings was crowned Asia’s best restaurant, while restaurants in Beijing claimed the lion’s share of spots in the top 10 of a new survey of the food-obsessed region’s best dining.

Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) in Taipei was ranked No. 1 in the inaugural “101 Best Restaurants in Asia” list, released yesterday by US-based food Web site The Daily Meal, which conducts similar polls in the US and Europe.

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“Ultimately we chose ... a place best-known for doing one thing absolutely perfectly,” said Colman Andrews, editorial director of The Daily Meal, adding that they were aware that their choosing the restaurant, which has spun off into an international chain, would be controversial.

Half of the top 10 restaurants were in Beijing, with Duck de Chine — noted for its Peking duck — in second place and the Chinese-style nouvelle cuisine Green T. House in third.

Food critics, writers and long-term foreign residents in Asia, among others, voted on a list of restaurants pulled together over a six-month nomination period — considering cuisine, style, value and overall buzz — to select the top 101.

The list included restaurants in Taiwan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, South Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam and can be found on: www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-restaurants-asia.

Below are six of the Taiwanese restaurants on the 101 Best Restaurants in Asia list. I wish I have chance to try some of them when I back to Taiwan!!