台湾鼎泰丰荣膺亚洲最佳餐厅A Taiwanese eatery famed for its dumplings was crowned Asia's best restaurant, whilerestaurants in Beijing claimed the lion's share of spots in the top ten of a new survey of the food-obsessed region's best dining.据路透社 5 月 16 日报道——美国的美食网站“每日一餐”（The Daily Meal）于 16 日首次发布了“亚洲 101 家最佳餐厅”榜单，台湾小笼包专卖店鼎泰丰荣获亚洲最佳餐厅美誉，北京占据前十餐厅的半数席位。2013 年 4 月 6 日，美国演员汤姆·克鲁斯（左）与鼎泰丰老板杨纪华（右）手捧小笼包在台北 101 分店合影 Din Tai Fung in Taipei was ranked number one in the inaugural "101 Best Restaurants in Asia" list, released on Thursday by the U.S.-based food website The Daily Meal, which does similar polls in the United States and Europe. "Ultimately we chose ... a place best-known for doing one thing absolutely perfectly," said Colman Andrews, editorial director of The Daily Meal, adding that they were aware their selection of the restaurant, which has spun off into an international chain, would be controversial. Half of the top ten restaurants were in Beijing, with Duck de Chine - noted for its Peking duck - at second place, and the Chinese-style nouvelle cuisine（新式烹调） Green T. House at third. "Our feeling is that Shanghai has had a good reputation as a restaurant city for some time, due both to a strong regional cuisine and the early incursions（入侵） of Western celebrity chefs ... but that Beijing is definitely catching up," said Andrews. "It's an imperfect analogy, but in a way the culinary contrast between the two mirrors that between New York City and Washington D.C. The former is more famous as a food city, but Washington increasingly offers serious competition - usually just with a little less...
