Red dates with glutinous rice ($4)- it's like red dates with mua chee inside. It's a new dish I think - but I haven't been to Ding Tai Fung for quite some time already. The dates are soft and sweet and the filling is smooth and chewy, but the whole dish is quite oily - the dates are coated in oil, probably because of the glutinous rice.
I had the shredded pork fried rice ($8). I don't like rice, but the only rice that I will eat is fried rice or brown rice (other than sushi and Japanese rice, I don't like rice). I actually wanted to get the pork chop with fried rice, but I was probably hypoglycaemic and ticked the wrong dish :( the pork chop fried rice is much better. The portions have shrunk (and the prices have remained the same) since I last went to Ding Tai Fung. 
Dou Miao fried with Garlic ($10)
Going to Ding Tai Fung means one thing - Xiao Long Pau. Personally, I'm not a big fan of Xiao Long Pau cos it has this pork-ey after taste which I don't quite like, and the meat is always very fatty and oily, and it's such an art picking them up and eating them without bursting them, and it's a delicate balance between eating it when it's too hot and scalding yourself, and yet not waiting for it to cool down till it's too cold and the skin too hard.
I always order the Thousand Layer Cake ($3). It's actually a posh version of a cheap Chinese cake - but then I like to peel off the layers and eat them separately. My favourite layer is the top most one, cos there are these sweet pink and green bits.Something amusing:
Q. What do you call air in the lung?
A. Pneumothorax
Q. What do you call pus in the lung?
A. Erm... Pyothorax?
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actually it was "what is blood in the lung called?" "haemothorax". "what is pus in the lung called?".....
and anyway, i hope no one gets the joke :P
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