Craving for DTF's goodness but not willing to queue or pay the price? Well then Ju Hao by MOF may be a good alternative.
The xiao long bao here comes smaller and in 8 pieces, hence cheaper. The skin may be a little too delicate as it tore right even when I lifted it up carefully. The soup was flavourful, but I felt that the minced pork filling was a little loose. Their egg fried rice with shrimp pancake fared better, with smooth rice grains coated with just the right amount of egg, spring onion and oil to make it really satisfying.
They have a promotion now where you can top up just $1 for any of their selected dumplings with every $30 spent. Chose the guotie (pan fried dumplings) and it was disappointingly greasy. Perhaps you're better off with another 5 pcs of xlb or some wantons.