Scoring a desk at soup dumpling establishment Din Tai Fung wherever on the earth comes with hurdles. It is likely to be ready to your quantity to pop up on the display screen exterior Taipei’s four-story Xinsheng Branch, queueing up exterior the Santa Clara, California, one, or combating for a web based reservation at midnight for the New York City 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The partnership between the 2 Taiwan-founded corporations is greater than 20 years outdated, with Din Tai Fung’s first meal served on an EVA Air flight on February 10, 2002.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 last 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 Business 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, referred to as Royal Laurel Class and Laurel Class, on choose routes. These routes embody 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), apart from BR189. 

On board, enterprise passengers can begin with a soup possibility of Home Steamed Hen Soup or Home Steamed Beef Soup. A number of signature dishes are supplied for the primary 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 aspect dishes, equivalent to Spicy Beef Tripe or Shaohsing Wine Marinated Hen.

For a candy deal with, passengers are supplied Suzhou-Fashion Mooncake with Sesame Paste-Crammed 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 presently has more than 165 locations in 13 countries—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 aspect in 1972.

EVA Air first took off in 1989, and is greatest identified for introducing the premium economy cabin to airlines again in 1992.