You Can Take pleasure in Din Tai Fung’s Signature Dishes Aboard This Airline

Scoring a desk at soup dumpling establishment Din Tai Fung wherever on this planet comes with hurdles. It could be ready in your quantity to pop up on the display screen exterior Taipei’s four-story Xinsheng Department, queueing up exterior the Santa Clara, California, one, or preventing for a web-based reservation at midnight for the New York Metropolis outpost. However there’s one option to seamlessly take pleasure in your personal personal meal—on board the airline EVA Air.

The partnership between the 2 Taiwan-founded corporations is greater than 20 years previous, with Din Tai Fung’s first meal served on an EVA Air flight on February 10, 2002. However many vacationers solely turned conscious of the perk final week when the Taiwanese service showcased a Reel from San Francisco-based creator Sandy Burrell on its North American Instagram final week. In it, Burrell is having fun with the beloved restaurant’s Noodles with Home Particular Spicy Shrimp and Pork Wontons in EVA’s Royal Laurel Enterprise Class as she flew from Taiwan Taoyuan Worldwide Airport (TPE) to San Francisco (SFO).

The restaurant’s specialty dishes can be found to EVA Air passengers in enterprise class cabins, known as Royal Laurel Class and Laurel Class, on choose routes. These routes embrace long-haul flights originating in Taipei flying to Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide (SEA), George Bush Intercontinental (IAH), Vancouver (YVR), in addition to Los Angeles (LAX) on flight BR16 and San Francisco on flight BR28.

The meals are additionally supplied on regional round-trip flights between Taipei’s Taoyuan and Japanese locations Tokyo-Narita (NRT), New Chitose (CTS), Kansai (KIX), and Fukuoka (FUK), in addition to from Taipei’s regional airport Songshan (TSA) to Tokyo-Haneda (HND), aside from BR189. 

On board, enterprise passengers can begin with a soup possibility of Home Steamed Rooster Soup or Home Steamed Beef Soup. A choice of signature dishes are supplied for the principle course, together with Juicy Pork Xiao Lengthy Bao Soup Dumplings, Braised Beef Noodle Soup, and the Noodles with Home Particular Spicy Shrimp and Pork Wontons. Every is served with conventional facet dishes, akin to Spicy Beef Tripe or Shaohsing Wine Marinated Rooster.

For a candy deal with, passengers are supplied Suzhou-Fashion Mooncake with Sesame Paste-Stuffed Mini Buns in numerous flavors. Extra not too long ago, the dessert possibility of Honey and White Fungus Candy Soup was additionally added on October 1, 2023.

Din Tai Fung at the moment has greater than 165 places in 13 international locations—together with a new California location in Santa Monica with rooftop views—however began in a modest cooking oil store when its proprietor Bing-Yi Yang and his spouse Pen-Mai Lai began promoting xiao lengthy bao soup dumplings on the facet in 1972.

EVA Air first took off in 1989, and is finest identified for introducing the premium financial system cabin to airways again in 1992.