Ding Tai Feng

Ding Tai Feng is the name for a famous local chinese restaurant chain. I quite like the fried rice and especially the delicious 小笼汤包. It is their chef-recommended dish. There is always a queue infront of entrance and it sometimes take you more than 20 minutes to be seated. The prices are not that cheap because the restaurants are located in prime shopping malls but still, it is a resonably good place for families who want to gather for dinner.

I am not sure if many people know about the derivation of the name of the restaurant. If I am not wrong, this brand name was borrowed from a famous restaurant in Taiwan which is named after 3 hexagrams viz, Ding, Tai and Feng.

But why these 3? Reason is simply because they are arguably the more auspicious hexagrams among the 64 hexagrams family.

Their full name, for your info, is as follow:

Ding : 火風鼎

Tai : 天地泰

Feng : 雷火丰

Nothing got to do with Name Analysis. This is one of the many examples that I-Ching or Yi Jing has influenced and infiltrated our daily life. Alot of chinese words or phrases that we use today are actually borrowed from Yi Jing.

For instance, we say that someone is 八卦 (ba gua) if he or she is busybody; or something has 变卦 (transformed gua) when a plan has changed.

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