福鼎湯包店

♢ Fuding Soup Dumpling Shop ♢
Location: Located near Wan Fang Hospital, about a two-minute walk to reach.
Dining Environment: Not very clean, the environment is crowded.
Ordering Method: Online ordering by scanning the QR code with your mobile phone.

• Soup Dumplings $90
  Regular soup dumplings.

• Handheld Egg Pancake $35
  Very thick with a lot of scallions, feels like there’s a piece of scallion omelet inside; can be ordered if you like scallions.

• Soft Heart $80
  A soup with tremella (silver ear fungus) paired with red dates, with a chewy type of mochi in the middle of the red date—quite interesting, worth trying.

• Loofa and Shrimp Soup Dumplings $150
  Taste as imagined, not bad but wouldn't go out of my way to eat it.

The food is average, but the environment is really terrible, which prevents me from focusing on the meal itself. First, the arrangement of tables and chairs in the store is very cramped, too close to the adjacent table, making dining uncomfortable when customers pass by closely to take their seats. The dining experience is poor.
Second, the hygiene is terrible, with unwashed food residues on tableware and steamers ಠ_ಠ. The side dishes were all piled together (food directly touching the bottom of another plate), which was very unappetizing; it doesn’t matter how good the food is.
I saw several short videos claiming this place is a budget version of Din Tai Fung, but personally, I think it's completely incomparable; I’d rather have fewer meals and go directly to Din Tai Fung.