Taipei Tokyo opens tomorrow

[ron_newman]

Tonight I saw a lot of people inside Taipei Tokyo, where China Sun used to be, across from the Somerville Theatre. It was a private party. The restaurant was not yet open to the public, but will be tomorrow, according to the woman who handed me a take-out menu.

The menu looks like your usual Chinese take-out, plus a sushi and makimono* menu. The Chinese and Japanese parts of the menu seem to be separate, rather than some attempt at fusion. Some folks here earlier speculated the restaurant might be affiliated with other places called 'Taipei Tokyo' in other cities, but I see no evidence of that on the menu.

* (What is makimono? The definitions I find online are all about a scroll of writing, not food.)

Comments

[pullmeunder.livejournal.com]

Even if this place isn't affiliated with the one in Northampton (MA), it will still bring me happy feelings of my college days. :)

[enhf94.livejournal.com]

It is; I asked the a new-owner (he was installing his own woodwork a few weeks ago) and then also spoke to the Noho branch when I was out there. It's the same family; these are cousins. There's also a branch somewhere in NH, apparently.

[sekala.livejournal.com]

I thought it sounded familiar(mhc class 06 -- you you from mhc too? or one of the other 5 colleges... your icon is familiar to me from the mhc comm)