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Graze the Stalls at Crystal Mall Food Court
Steps from Metrotown SkyTrain, a food court where the yellow-sign dumpling stall beats Din Tai Fung for half the money.
Foodie Experiences
Steps from Metrotown SkyTrain, a food court where the yellow-sign dumpling stall beats Din Tai Fung for half the money.
Crystal Mall's upstairs food court is the most fun two people can have on a date for under twenty bucks each, which is a bold statement until you're standing there with a steaming basket of xiao long bao. It's a loud, fluorescent-lit hall of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Hong Kong stalls, steps from Metrotown SkyTrain, and the move is to graze together. Split the dumplings here, a bowl of beef noodle there, roast pork and rice at the counter across the way. The whole thing is cash-and-debit and completely unbothered by pretension. Regulars will tell you (loudly, and correctly) that the yellow-sign dumpling stall outdoes Din Tai Fung for half the money. Deciding what to share next is genuinely the fun part, which is a sentence about a food court that turns out to be entirely true.
