Taipei Tokyo

[sekala.livejournal.com]

I ate a Taipei Tokyo for the first time last night. It was wonderful! It's not really take out Chinese but more upscale sit down. The interior is very comfortable and warm(though I imagine it could feel crowded when full) and their presentation from tea, to sushi, to their plated food was lovely. I had the pad thai (not Chinese I know, but it sounded good) which was delicious and light, my friends who were with me had a fried tofu/sauce/broccoli and a chicken/sauce/broccoli combination(I don't know exactly what they were). Both agreed that they were very tasty and better than a lot of the Chinese they've had in the area. Over all it was a great experience. We were surprised to be the only people in there around 6. Go and give it a try.

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[philipph.livejournal.com]

We went there shortly after it opened.
Our impression (and we ordered a wide variety of dishes) was that almost every dish was somehow... weird. Not what we were expecting. Not bad as such, but an outlier on the spectrum of what-that-dish-is-usually-like-elsewhere.
I put it down to still working the kinks out of the menu and recipes.
Gotta go back again for a second chance.
Certainly nice to have a trying-for-more-than-takeout restaurant there now (Dragon Garden our current favorite for that), but I always find that attempts at pan-Asian cuisine leave each of the cuisines somehow underserved.

[lusciousnichols.livejournal.com]

You-really-like-using-dashes-when-you-post. It's-sort-of-like-following-the-bouncing-ball-
and-it-keeps-me-anchored-so-I-don't-lose-my-place.

Heh, I think I'm in love. ;-)

Want to go out and try Taipei Tokyo one-more-time... with me?!

[philipph.livejournal.com]

soitenly!

[sekala.livejournal.com]

was that almost every dish was somehow... weird. Not what we were expecting. Not bad as such, but an outlier on the spectrum of what-that-dish-is-usually-like-elsewhere.

For me (I did try my friends dishes as well) I was pleased by the offness because I'm normally turned off by your typical heavy chinese. I really like a light tasting, non-msg chinese place, and while it isn't the best I've had, it's refreshing to me to have something that isn't what it normally is elsewhere, if that makes sense.