Taiwanese Restaurants near Palo Alto, CA

“Good portion, and delicious food“

“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.“

“非常好吃，超愛煉乳銀絲卷“

“It’s within a central kitchen with couple of other restaurants on sites. Takeout only. No cash, I believe. All orders are made online through an app and you pick up the food from the window when it’s ready. Parking was extremely limited. Regards the food, we love the purple sticky rice roll. The pepper and salt trumpet mushroom was also juicy and tasty.“

“手工拉面不错，儿童友好，微辣的牛腩面也适合大人，总体不错，五星好评。“

“Today is our first time trying the food here. We got Taiwanese tempura, basil popcorn chicken and grilled pork chop bento. All the food is yummy. For sure we will go back to try other food. 😋“

“Very good service, great food fair price“

“Another authentic Taiwanese bento place located in San Jose area! Simple, no frills meal but represented traditional Taiwanese "bento box" style meals. Similar to Japanese bento boxes but Taiwanese preferred the bento to be hot so most of the items tends to be hot/warm.

Choice 4 side dishes plus an entree and there goes your quick meal for the day.

Cash or cards.“

“Great food & service. Highly recommended to all . Clean & pleasant ambiance.“

“We usually eat here and it is very good. The meat are fresh and the soup base is tasty unlike others“

“I love eating at red hot wok, probably one of the best Taiwanese restaurants in the area.
Recommended dishes: sizzling lamb with black pepper sauce( you can choose any protein with the sauce, personally I prefer lamb), three cup chicken, stir fried lamb with bamboo shoots.“

“This place is spacious inside. If you come during peak time, there's usually a line. Their food comes quickly, so the wait usually isn't too bad.

The XLB is juicy inside and the dumpling size is bigger than Ding Tai Fung's. I'd say the skin is as thin and comparable to Ding Tai Fung's too. We tried all three kinds: the regular pork ones, pork with crab meat, and the shrimp with loofah squash. They're all good.

The flavor of the three-cup chicken is good, however, too many bones. They chopped the chicken with bones and there were fragmented bone pieces. You'll need to be careful when eating this dish.

Their steamed beef dumplings are good, but a bit on the salty side.

The sliced beef and cucumber roll with green onion pancake is so-so. Only has one thin slice of beef and there's not enough meat inside, compared to other restaurants I tried.

Their fried rice are tasty. We tried a few before and they're all decent. The picture below is the Sakura Shrimp fried rice and it's very flavorful without being too salty.

The steamed sole fish (filet) is surprisingly good. Worth a try if you haven't ordered this before, and no fish bones!

Their scrambled eggs with prawns is good. A lot of prawns and tasty eggs. A good protein dish.

Their sauteed veggies are pretty good too. We tried the sauteed A-choy and bitter melon with garlic. Both dishes are decent.

The boiled tofu with house special sauce is excellent.

If you don't want to wait for long line at Ding Tai Fung, this is the place to come. Of course if you want way better (Americanized) service, go to Ding Tai Fung. This service at this place is like typical authentic Chinese restaurants, don't expect too much.“

“I admit I mostly came for the vegan braised pork rice and it did not disappoint. It was so so good.
I wish the green onion pancakes were vegetarian but I'm very excited to try the rest of the vegan menu and appreciate that they have it!“

“It’s really traditional Taiwanese food. The grandma works there is really nice. Stinky tofu is really good! Highly recommend!
Pork belly is fine too even it doesn’t melt in my mouth.
I wish they would have more drinks options.“

“Authentic home-style northern Chinese food. It’s best if you go for the dishes that don’t require pan-frying, such as the buns, the pumpkin porridge, or the cabbage tofu stew.
I chatted with the owner, she is very passionate about not using additives, and fresh small-batch oil everyday; her own grandchildren eat here. I have a sensitive stomach and this is indeed one of the only places I can constantly order from.
Overall, this is a restaurant that preserves ingredients’ original flavors like your grandma’s kitchen. The atmosphere is likewise — nothing fancy.“

“The nightclub next door has people smoking pot. The front door area totally smell of pot.“

“Awesome service great drinks and chill atmosphere 👍🏼“

“The place is part of a small food court, I got Oyster Mee Sua, to my taste it is thin noodles in thick/starch broth, the good is pretty good, but I'm not a big fun of thick soup overall. I was served within 5 minutes (came around 8 pm)“

“One of my favorite restaurants, sometimes I'll go there multiple days in a row when I'm in town for business“

“Delicious Gourmet Burgers!“

“I have tried the tea and it's one of the kind, price is so reasonable for a large size, you need to try when you are around the area, words can't describe until you have tasted the tea and judge for yourself.... highly recommended.“

“Food is great. I like the Sausage fried rice here because the rice is actually on the drier side, which is how I like. Other places have good fried rice but the rice is always a little more moist. The restaurant is located inside Mountain View downtown so parking may be a challenge.“