Once a gorgeous location for fine Chinese dining - we recall wedding luncheons and New Year’s dinners - is now part of a chain serving a mostly younger crowd. Ingredients are not fresh - the clams rubbery and from the freezer. The crowd is loud, mostly young males, eating fast. Servers who avoid your effort to make contact. Sigh. Will wait for its replacement.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 3
Vera Geranpayeh
Our favorite restaurant in the Bay! I almost didn’t want to write a review because we like to keep it a secret…:) We love to order a lot and eat the leftovers for a few days. We usually get the combination fried rice, a choy, basil eggplant, sizzling pepper beef, green onion lamb, and small hot and sour soup which comes with tofu. This order can easily feed four people.
Very fair prices, especially for the area.
The staff is always friendly and quick.
The atmosphere is relaxed. Pleasant music in the background. We usually see families or friend groups but people enjoy the food so much that conversation never gets too loud.
There is plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. The restaurant has a parking lot in the back and there is free street parking in the front.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Victor Wang
Ordered the cumin lamb noodles which were delicious. Big portions, plenty of pieces of lamb, crunch Chinese celery for texture. Also ordered the salt and pepper shrimp and it was just ok, small portions for the price, small shrimp, a bit soggy after 10 minutes in the takeout box.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Avi Shai
We've been ordering out and eating in several times. The service is always helpful and professional. The food is fresh and tasteful. The portions are large.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
JC L
Many of the photos here from online sites are stock photos and NOT actual food from this restaurant, can’t trust them to order! 🙄😐😑
Snow L.
We went there for family dinner time. Food is good and we love the snowflake desert as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Three Cups Chicken with Bones 三杯雞, 沙茶牛肉炒麵
Max Tseng
Everything looked great until the food arrived. Definitely not Taiwanese food. We order 3 dishes. All 3 tasted terrible. All three were soaked in Chinese soybean source. Too sweet and too salty. One of a Taiwanese signature disk is supposed to be dry but is was soaked not only in soybean paste but also in lot of vinegar. I would try other dishes next time.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
qq yok
Great taste and generous portion! Food came super quick too
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sizzling Beef with Black Pepper Sauce 鐵板牛柳
Donna Kim
This place was recommended as a hidden gem for bento boxes, so we decided to check it out. We opted for takeout, and even during lunchtime, it wasn’t very crowded. If your total is under $25, they only accept cash and won’t take credit cards. So, instead of ordering just one bento box as we had planned, we ended up having to order two.
The food was tasty, clean, and generously portioned, with the Taiwanese sausage being especially delicious. There’s plenty of seating inside if you prefer to dine in, and there’s also a parking lot in the back, making it convenient to park. However, I can’t say the overall customer experience was great. It would be much better if they made the payment options more convenient. If I don’t have cash on hand, I probably wouldn’t go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Sizzling Beef with Black Pepper Sauce 鐵板牛柳
This place is so great. The food came out very fast, and every dish was perfectly executed and perfectly delicious. The staff was also incredibly accommodating and nice. Though they are a bit hard to flag down.
We ordered: - silk squash with salted egg (10/10, just perfect, no notes) - chicken with bamboo (9/10, I think this dish is probably best with beef or lamb, so that’s on us; the flavor was spot on though) - three-cups tofu (9/10, I don’t like tofu, but that’s not their fault; the flavors were spot on) - Taiwanese sausage fried rice (10/10, how fried rice should always taste, could’ve done with slightly more sausage, but honestly it was great as is)
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Remi Porter
Very yummy food at affordable prices
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: House Special Pork Rice Bowl
Jenny Xu
I came here with two friends and it was mostly empty at 7:10 pm on a Tuesday night!
Good: - Food came out fast and it's as good as I remember! - The egg tofu was so chewy and soft, and savory! - The veggies here are tasty and healthy - The fried rice was flavorful and well salted
Bad: - It was hard to flag down a waiter - Not a big fan of the salted egg yolk dish in the clay pot - just had a bit too strong of an aftertaste for me
Overall it's a casual place with good Asian food and predictable quality!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Alex Xopolis
Easily the best lunch spot within a three mile radius. Food is amazing and service super. Don’t understand any of the neg reviews
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andy N
Very generous portion of three cup chicken for the lunch special / bento. Tender and flavorful. Excellent value for lunch at 16 dollars. Friendly service and beautiful view of the blooming plants outside.
The owner could invest in a laminator for his menus
Chinese food with Taiwanese cooking style
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Once a gorgeous location for fine Chinese dining - we recall wedding luncheons and New Year’s dinners - is now part of a chain serving a mostly younger crowd. Ingredients are not fresh - the clams rubbery and from the freezer. The crowd is loud, mostly young males, eating fast. Servers who avoid your effort to make contact. Sigh. Will wait for its replacement.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 3
Our favorite restaurant in the Bay! I almost didn’t want to write a review because we like to keep it a secret…:)
We love to order a lot and eat the leftovers for a few days. We usually get the combination fried rice, a choy, basil eggplant, sizzling pepper beef, green onion lamb, and small hot and sour soup which comes with tofu. This order can easily feed four people.
Very fair prices, especially for the area.
The staff is always friendly and quick.
The atmosphere is relaxed. Pleasant music in the background. We usually see families or friend groups but people enjoy the food so much that conversation never gets too loud.
There is plenty of indoor and outdoor seating.
The restaurant has a parking lot in the back and there is free street parking in the front.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ordered the cumin lamb noodles which were delicious. Big portions, plenty of pieces of lamb, crunch Chinese celery for texture. Also ordered the salt and pepper shrimp and it was just ok, small portions for the price, small shrimp, a bit soggy after 10 minutes in the takeout box.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
We've been ordering out and eating in several times. The service is always helpful and professional. The food is fresh and tasteful. The portions are large.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Many of the photos here from online sites are stock photos and NOT actual food from this restaurant, can’t trust them to order! 🙄😐😑
We went there for family dinner time. Food is good and we love the snowflake desert as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Three Cups Chicken with Bones 三杯雞, 沙茶牛肉炒麵
Everything looked great until the food arrived. Definitely not Taiwanese food. We order 3 dishes. All 3 tasted terrible. All three were soaked in Chinese soybean source. Too sweet and too salty. One of a Taiwanese signature disk is supposed to be dry but is was soaked not only in soybean paste but also in lot of vinegar. I would try other dishes next time.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Great taste and generous portion! Food came super quick too
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sizzling Beef with Black Pepper Sauce 鐵板牛柳
This place was recommended as a hidden gem for bento boxes, so we decided to check it out. We opted for takeout, and even during lunchtime, it wasn’t very crowded. If your total is under $25, they only accept cash and won’t take credit cards. So, instead of ordering just one bento box as we had planned, we ended up having to order two.
The food was tasty, clean, and generously portioned, with the Taiwanese sausage being especially delicious. There’s plenty of seating inside if you prefer to dine in, and there’s also a parking lot in the back, making it convenient to park. However, I can’t say the overall customer experience was great. It would be much better if they made the payment options more convenient. If I don’t have cash on hand, I probably wouldn’t go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Sizzling Beef with Black Pepper Sauce 鐵板牛柳
Restaurantji Recommends
This place is so great. The food came out very fast, and every dish was perfectly executed and perfectly delicious. The staff was also incredibly accommodating and nice. Though they are a bit hard to flag down.
We ordered:
- silk squash with salted egg (10/10, just perfect, no notes)
- chicken with bamboo (9/10, I think this dish is probably best with beef or lamb, so that’s on us; the flavor was spot on though)
- three-cups tofu (9/10, I don’t like tofu, but that’s not their fault; the flavors were spot on)
- Taiwanese sausage fried rice (10/10, how fried rice should always taste, could’ve done with slightly more sausage, but honestly it was great as is)
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Very yummy food at affordable prices
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: House Special Pork Rice Bowl
I came here with two friends and it was mostly empty at 7:10 pm on a Tuesday night!
Good:
- Food came out fast and it's as good as I remember!
- The egg tofu was so chewy and soft, and savory!
- The veggies here are tasty and healthy
- The fried rice was flavorful and well salted
Bad:
- It was hard to flag down a waiter
- Not a big fan of the salted egg yolk dish in the clay pot - just had a bit too strong of an aftertaste for me
Overall it's a casual place with good Asian food and predictable quality!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Easily the best lunch spot within a three mile radius. Food is amazing and service super. Don’t understand any of the neg reviews
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very generous portion of three cup chicken for the lunch special / bento. Tender and flavorful. Excellent value for lunch at 16 dollars. Friendly service and beautiful view of the blooming plants outside.
The owner could invest in a laminator for his menus
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
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