1 2 and e Quirky details instill a sense of fun in an Australian dumpling house By REBECCA LO Photography courtesy of ZADRO COMMUNICATIONS 1. At Din Tai Fung, various sizes of bright red hawker stall wheels adorn the floor-toceiling windows facing the nearby university campus. 2. A rickshaw carrying bamboo steamers greets guests as they enter the quick-service restaurant. Din Tai Fung may well be Asia's equivalent of McDonald's. While not nearly as ubiquitous as the Golden Arches, it is still a popular chain with franchises across the globe and a relatively extensive menu for the casual diner. As a result, Din Tai Fung's restaurants run like well-oiled machines with larger branches holding hundreds of tables set in a cafeteria-like environment. Din Tai Fung's Central Park outpost is the third to open in Sydney. Located in the city's creative hub and surrounded by a park designed by 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Jean Nouvel and vertical gardens by French botanist Patrick Blanc, the newest location is a departure from its sisters: Locally based Design Clarity was commissioned to transform the second story restaurant into a space that would appeal to the area's predominantly student crowd. Designers used an entire wall of full height glazing facing University of Western Sydney's Campbelltown campus as a twoway mirror treated with lipstick red-painted hawker stall wheels of varying sizes. "It was hospitalitydesign.com October 2014 133http://www.hospitalitydesign.com