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VANCOUVER IN THE RAIN

In the  Vancouver Sun  yesterday was a  review of the restaurant we went to two days ago, Din Tai Fung .  A few surprises. It just opened last week. Is Canada's first Din Tai Fung. Can serve 312 customers at once. Raved about their Xiao Long Bao, or Shanghai soup dumplings. DTF XLBs feature Kurobuta pork, and each dumpling is 21 ounces with 18 folds.  Ten for 19.50 Canadian dollars, or divided by 1.39 to $14 U.S. dollars, or $1.40 each. Remember how Japanese wagyu beef was made famous by Kobe? Kurobuta  pork is a Japanese breed developed in Kagoshima of a Berkshire pig from the UK First given as a gift in the 1800s to the Emperor of Japan. There is a history, for in the 1640s, Oliver Cromwell's English soldiers were wintering the Shire of Berk and loved the taste of this unique black pig with white spots on tis legs, ears and snout. However, it was in 1930 that two of these pigs were brought to Kagoshima, and apparently all the "legal" Kurobuta ( meaning bl...