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Taiwan Cafe
- Nearest Transit:
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Chinatown (Orange, Silver)
Boylston (Green, Silver)
South Station (Silver, Red)
- Hours:
Mon-Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
- Parking:
- Street
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Price Range:
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$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
124 reviews for Taiwan Cafe
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Boston's Chinatown is small but substantial. My second visit proved to be a major success.
I bark often and hyper about Chinese Food in America sucking 95% of the time. Don't bark back at me when you read that and in pretension remind me that I'm reviewing Taiwanese Food. If you want to make a hard lined distinction between the 2 go for it, but fact is, they are wildly similar...I have respect for the differences but a Sri Lankan will tell you their food is basically Indian Food, or a Sardinian (even though part of italy, but with different cuisine of Italy) will tell you their food is Italian just with regional differences. The lines are blurred and similar enough, is similar enough.
This place is glorious. The menu inspires...everything standing on it's own without ties to standard Chinese/Taiwanese American dishes.
We had:
-Sauteed Scallop, Shrimp and calamari Over Green
-Braised Grass Carp with spicy bean curd sauce
-Sauteed Beef with long-horn pepper & basil
BEST TRIO OF DISHES EVER!
-We also shared some Taiwan Style Pan Fried Dumplings.
I would recommend this ordering procedure for seafood loving groups of 3 or 4.
Each dish stood on it's own and complimented the others.
NOTE: the sauteed beef with long-horn peppers and basil is typically an either/or (peppers or basil) dish. I asked for both! I SUGGEST YOU DO THE SAME!
THE PERFECT MEAL.
Everything was fresh and delicious and moderately priced...not expensive at all but not the cheapest by understated Asian Restaurant standards. No Frills here. Just good honest food off the main walking path in Boston's Chinatown.
Delicious soup dumplings!
Go for the soup dumplings, stay for the beef noodle soup (I hear). Things I actually tried, which were delicious: tofu, fried crullers, ..and more soup dumplings. Brunch menu only goes to 3PM, so hurry, now!
The food is alway's delicious, fast, and cheap! Authentic Taiwanese. The service is okay, but I guess that's what you get in Chinatown.
Among my favorites are:
Beef noodle soup
Eggplant with basil sauce
Fried pork chops
But everything I have tried there is delicious!
Like any good trip to Chinatown, a trip to Taiwan Cafe is best described as a tasty exercise in calculated risk. Their menu features authentic chinese dishes, most of which I know nothing about, but also look pretty good based on the english descriptions.
I found the food to be pretty accurate in its authenticity (I've had taiwanese food straight from the source, so I have some standards) and fairly tasty at that. The pork dumplings were quite flavorful and the stinky tofu a sobering reminder of why I avoided it in Taiwan (it's the tofu you love to hate, really). We also had a fried rice dish, featuring a generous amount of egg and oily vegetables, but unfortunately not a generous amount of flavor. My favorite of the main dishes was a pork noodle dish very similar to pork lo-mein (in fact, hardly distinguishable), featuring a nice mix of noodles and crispy vegetables in a soy-esque sauce.
On a friday night, we (2) were seated within 15 minutes and served tea immediately. The menu was large, but we managed to order fairly quickly. The food arrived probably between 5 and 8 minutes after our order went in, which we thought was surprisingly fast. Our waitress was nice and accommodating and the dining room was pretty standard for a restaurant in chinatown. Finally, we found the portion sizes so large that we couldn't finish nearly 70% of it all, so we took quite a bit home with us. Best of all, the prices were phenomenal, totaling about $20 for the two of us.
I would recommend Taiwan Cafe for anyone seeking an authentic, cheap meal in Chinatown. The service is quick and reliable and the food is solid. For the price, it's worth checking out...and bring some friends with you.
This rating is for their fried pork rice plate. Cheap and delicious. My friends always get this dish without fail whenever we come here for lunch and I decide to be different and order a noodle dish. Fail. I always regret my decision because their pork dish just tastes so much better.
All kidding aside, for Boston, Taiwan Cafe has good Chinese food. (although it doesn't compare to Houston or California's Chinese food).
Pretty good, pretty good.
Karman recommended this joint for a meet-up for lunch, and her taste in Chinese food hasn't failed me yet.
Lunch deals for about $7, including soup and rice. You can make a combo of three dishes for about $19. I'm not sure what possessed us to go that route, other than that I was feeling hungry. Per usual, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. We made a hefty dent, but ultimately only made it through about 2/3rds of each dish.
Mustard greens with tofu wrappers and soy beans were probably my favorite of what we had. The tofu with shrimp was disappointing - goopy with corn starch and shrimp that look like they were reconstituted from the miniature dried ones from the Asian grocery store. Our kong xing cai was surprisingly tender and crunchy, and it was clear that it was cooked at high heat from the lightly charred garlic slices that came with it.
If you plan to make it in for lunch, ensure that you arrive by around 1130 during the week. This place goes from zero to crazy in the span of ten or fifteen minutes right around noontime. We were politely asked to vacate our window seat shortly after we finished, due to the waiting patrons - no problem.
Great for a quick pit stop. Decent quality food, if you know what to order. Great value. Fast service. Hard to go wrong here.
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They told him don't you ever come around here
Unless you can handle Taiwan Cafe, you better disappear
Their plates are just so cheap and they carry Tsing Tsao beer.
So eat it, just eat It
You better run, you better do what you can
Don't wanna spill no soy, don't be a macho man
You wanna be tough, better do what you can
So eat it, but your group ordered too much food
Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it
No one wants to be defeated
Show them how funky strong is your bite
It doesn't matter whether you had too much Taiwan sausage with rice
Just eat it, eat it
Just eat it, eat It
Just eat it, eat It
Just eat it, eat It
Taiwan Cafe's out to get you, better leave while you can
I ordered too many dumplings cause I wanna be a man
But I wanna stay alive, better do what I can
So eat it, just eat it
You have to show them that you're really not scared
You're playin' with your stomach, this ain't no truth or dare
They'll bring you sweet and sour chicken, and then more noodles
Then they'll tell you it's fair
So eat it, but you wanna be bad
Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it
We didn't want to be defeated
We showed them we could eat a full table of food and then tip right
It doesn't matter if all my clothes now fit tight
Just eat it, eat it
eat it, eat it, eat it
I am by no means qualified to determine what constitutes 'authentic' taiwanese food, but this place is delicious nonetheless. Nowadays when my girlfriend and I go out in chinatown we make a beeline for this place, pausing for a brief moment to snicker at the poor folks who are stuffed into the entryway of the gourmet dumpling house waiting to get a seat, while we coast effortlessly into taiwan cafe and commence feasting on all sorts of outstanding treats. the beef with longhorn peppers is a standout, as is anything with chinese watercress. Make sure to bring plenty of cash because you never know what on the menu will unexpectedly look really good in the heat of the moment.
bottom line: fast, cheap, very tasty
I went here on a Friday night at about 7:30, and it was packed. However, the wait was only about 10 minutes, and the tucked-away location of the restaurant and the bustling crowd made it feel sort of warm and festive, which I think was my favorite thing overall about Taiwan Cafe. The servers are really attentive, the food came out extremely fast, and they were great about refilling our tea. I guess the only problem I have with this place is that I wasn't terribly impressed with my food. It wasn't bad or anything, but it also wasn't that great. It is possible that we just didn't know what to order - we got stinky tofu, noodles with pork, rice with pork, and dumplings. The dumplings were good, but the rest was just okay. If I go here, I'm going to pay more attention to previous yelp reviews about what menu items people liked.
Fresh, delicious and fast. Perfect for lunch and with rather large lunch portions for only $6.65.
I love the braised eggplant with basil and can not stop drooling over mustard green with edamame and tofu, where the tofu is cut like thin noodles.
You won't run into a greasy, western-style Chinese dish here
I've had the dumplings, the beef noodle soup, the oyster pancake, the fried rice cakes, and the meat sauce on rice- all pretty tasty but a little greasy. What I was really looking forward to and ultimately disappointed in were the dumplings. I love dumplings and I've made a habit of actively seeking them out. The filling in their dumplings just wasn't good- it was too salty and had a weird flavor and texture. My friend Jess and I ended up picking out all the meat and eating only the skins. I like the rest of their food ok though.
Best place in Chinatown, here's why.
It's cheap.
It's fast.
Food tastes amazing.
Details:
Place is ALWAYS packed, a good sign, but annoying to have to wait, cuz the place is TINY, and when you always go with starving 300 LBS guys, it's tough to stare at the fresh fish in the tank near the entrance for 20 min.
The service is normal China town service, fast, efficient, not much english and want to get you in and out. Don't care, cuz that's what you get in Chinatown, along with some of the best food ever.
Advice: Bring a Chinese friend and order off the menu or get them to read the signs that have the daily specials, they are all really good.
Onto the food:
Beef and Tomato with Eggs - plain, simple, and addicting. It's sweet and sour and you can never get enough, good thing cuz it's like $5 bucks or something, we always get like 3 orders.
Any sauteed asian green, I suggest the "Do Miao", hallowed greens or bok choy.
Salted fish - authentic, sizzling, smelly (that's good)
Sauteed scallion and ginger crab - the way all chinese make their crab, it's classic and great!
More Advice: don't even think about ordering fake-chinese, AMERICHINESE stuff here, you'll be wasting space and time.
Bring plenty of cash. Good thing is they don't put you at community tables like other good Chinese places, so you can spend time with your closest and tune out everything else.
Food: guess this is the place to get good chinese food in the city. the food is pretty good. the dumplings were pretty big and juicy, the veggies also very good, except the string beans werent as good as the ones we serve here in la. the bbq pork was decent but a bit salty, and the tofu was not bad but not my favorite. thought it was lacking in flavor. the fried rice with taiwanese sausages was pretty tasty but i didnt like how they cooked in lettuce with it. it just seemed unnecessary.
Ambiance: tiny restaurant and very squished. very casual, a bit dirty but it is a small taiwanese restaurant in china town.
Staff: well... not friendly but thats at almost every chinese restaurant. not attentive either since we had to flag them down every second even when our table was located right next to their tea station
Price: $
Both of my Chinese instructors (xianzai wo xuexi Hanyu!) reccomended this place to me as probably the best Chinese food in Boston's Chinatown, so naturally I had to try it. The menu is long and impressive, and full of delicious sounding things. I opted for the Taiwan style duck for takeout, and it was very well done! A bit boney, but duck can be at times. The restaurant itself seemed well decorated and decently sized, and the waitresses were attentive. All in all, a solid place for Chinese, though perhaps not my favorite.
I haven't really had a wide range of dishes here - I'm pretty stuck on the fantastic beef and long-horned peppers, and the spicy salted fried calamari - but most things I have had are delicious, including the following (I don't have the menu in front of me, so I'm guessing at the names):
Pan fried Taiwanese dumplings (they tell you this dish will take 20 minutes, but it never does)
Bacon cut pork
Eggplant with basil sauce
Clams with basil sauce
Sa cha beef with watercress
Mustard greens, tofu and edaname (amazing with a little bit of salt)
I could do without the Taiwanese wonton soup, but that's about it for cons. Very quick service, reasonable prices!
Food here was satisfying and reasonably priced. I love going to family-styles served restaurants with a large group - we got to sample ma po tofu (decent, but would have been better with some ground pork seasoning), gow choy (that hollow vegetable that was really tasty with ground pork seasoning), eggplant, hot and sour soup, salt and pepper calamari (perhaps the star of the meal imho), and sticky rice dessert (not my cup of tea).
So why three stars? The sauces for the ma po tofu and the eggplant were exactly the same and although the gow choy did not have a sticky sauce on it, it tasted like the tofu and eggplant. The hot and sour soup was middling - at this point in my life a decent hot and sour isn't going to tip the scale of quality unless it's stellar. Salt and pepper calamari - yes, it was good, but not enough to elevate the whole meal. The service - also middling, could have been better, could have been worse. One of our teacups had a crushed rice grain stuck to the inside (from which someone drank - yuck) and we got a bit of attitude when we asked for it to be replaced. That'll bring down the experience a bit.
Summary: Not bad, not blowing my mind. I would go back, but only if I was in the neighborhood around dinner time.
I have eaten here a good number of times, enjoying a variety of their dishes while standing their quirks, but there are certain items on the menu that pique my curiosity... but I fear I will never order. The food is alright, that's not a question for me... However, Taiwan Cafe seems to be the best choice of restaurant I have seen in the Boston area... to freak someone out. This re-review is based entirely on the ability to go to Taiwan Cafe and squicking someone with a blind taste test as a form of entertainment, rather than as a restaurant. Some of these dishes, I do enjoy, but for the uninitiated or sane, this might bring them a few rungs toward worshipping Cthulhu.
As I flip through their menu right now, here's a listing of dishes that you can introduce to your dare-taking friends:
Blood pudding rice cake w/ gravy
Thousand year egg w/ chilled tofu
Fried pork intestine
Chilled spicy pork ears
Chilled five-spice duck tongue
Chilled jellyfish w/ garlic
Poached pork intestine with dipping sauce
Sauteed escargot w/ soy and basil
Sauteed pork kidney with sesame oil (chili sauce)
Taiwan-style sauteed pork lever
Pickled mustard green w/ intestine and blood pudding
Sauteed pickled mustard green w/ pork intestine
Sauteed pickled mustard green w/ pork tripe
Sauteed duck tongue w/ basil
Beer braised pig's feet
Fish head w/ mixed vegetable in clay pot
Sauteed pork intesting w/ chinese leek
Soup w/ pork intestine and blood pudding
Soup w/ spinach and pork liver
And seemingly not so gross, but this line says: "Steamed fermented tofu w/ minced pork & broad bean sauce (take-out only)". Just what would relegate a dish of stinky tofu to 'take-out only'... Hrm...
So the next time you're planning on doing a home edition of Fear Factor or scaring the in-laws, dig into the menu! Also, Taiwan Cafe is open late! So it can be a wonderful life-changing experience to drag your friends in after hitting up the nearby dives and clubs! Their hallitosis and pictures put up on Facebook the morning after make wonderful presents!
P.S. I am being very facetious. The food is alright, see prior review for real details. I'll... go stick to the julienned meats with vegetables.
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3/17/2009
Taiwan Cafe, for the price, is fairly reasonable. You can get three dishes with soup and rice for… Read more »
It is a tradition for me and my girlfriends to come here after shopping in downtown crossing. The food is always fresh and delicious. The beef noodle soup is great in the winter as well as the fresh bacon with taro. In the summer, I always order the peashoots with garlic.
Just don't be squeamish. I have seen many silverfish and cockroaches roaming around the restaurant.
This is still my favorite Taiwanese restaurant in the Boston area.
I always tend to order their chicken chop on rice and 3-cup chicken. The chicken chop always turns out very crispy and nicely. The 3-cup chicken is also super savory and mouth wateringly delicious.
It is very rare to find food this good and so cheap. For only $5.50, I got a deep fried quarter chicken leg, cabbage, rice with braised pork topping (the stuff made with pickled cabbage), hard boiled egg cooked in some kind of sauce, and soup. I think it was more than just the quarter chicken leg because there were some extra breast pieces too. The flavors make the chicken so much better than KFC. The dish is called "Crispy chicken quarter leg on rice platter". There's a chicken cutlet on rice platter too if you don't want to deal with bones.
I got it for take-out and the bag felt so heavy as I carried it home. About half of it is still in the fridge after I ate so much that I fell asleep. The food is so good at this place! However, if you're looking for fancy tables and stuff like that, this is not it. Go there for the great food in a very casual place.
This place is OFF THE HOOK.
The eggplant & the vegetables are amazing at this place, SO GOOD, SO GOOD. Figures that the best Chinese food place in town is, uh, Taiwanese. I can't speak for the meat dishes, but I've had half the vegetarian items here and none of them have disappointed. Nom.
So I've only eaten here once for lunch so I don't think I can give a fair review yet but I was very happy with my meal and I will definitely go again to try other dishes in the future.
Based on recommendations, we ordered the fried pork chop over rice (which comes with a soy sauce egg and some cabbage) and the eggplant with basil. All dishes come with mediocre egg drop soup. Both dishes were really good and filling and BIG, and the food came out super quickly. My friend and I shared two dishes, ate until we were stuffed and still had enough leftover to take home (my lunch the next day!).
And the best part? Each dish was about $5-6 each. Not bad at all for a filling, yummy, quality meal~!
Being down a little side street, up some stairs, and fluorescently lit like a photo shoot in a morgue, this place fits the description of little-find-in-Chinatown. The salty cod hot pot is super good. And the XLB were filled with hot soupy goodness, if the skin was a bit thick.
Is it "authentic"? Not being born or raised in Taiwan I couldn't say. but it's super good.
Mmmm mmmm meals following manual labor are great, Meals following manual labor on the parents dime and at a good establishment are even better. I ordered the childhood favorite chicken cutlet on rice. The chicken was thin, crispy, and juicy. The rice and meat wasn't that greasy, and didn't have too much fat. The cabbage was flavorful and melted in my mouth and the rest followed. My sister got noodles with eel which was also tasty, but really oily. My dad got a fish with spicy chili sauce and tofu which was huge and delicious. This may possibly be one of my rotating go tos in Boston's Chinatown when all else fails. Take that DC Chinatown.
In what universe do you find better Taiwanese food in Boston than in San Francisco?
It blows my mind.
As does Taiwan Cafe's pork chop rice.
Taiwan Cafe is a good place to know when you don't have many dining options, like after 10pm, day after snow storm and what not. Their menu is good, food is good, price is good. If they fixed the broken ceiling and a improve some little things like those mentioned in other reviews (waitstaff is often rushing and forget things), they will surely earn one more star.
This is Good Good Chinese Food.
I loved the chunky chicken dish, Noodle dish (#14) and the watercress w/ garlic. The chunky chicken dish was supposed to be with vegetables, but there wasn't that much vegetable - which was fine by me ^_^. Also the noodle dish is very much recommended. The ground beef with flat noodle was tasty. emmm emm ~
There are two bathroom for male and female, which is connected with a sink used by everyone. For the fifth star, I wish they cleaned and decorated the bathroom for a little comfort.
All in all awesome !
This is a good place to get good, cheap food. I usually go for the pork chops, which are fried and have a good taste to them, and it's less than $6. Can't beat the prices. I also like the pork buns, you get eight of them and they're a decent size, sure to fill you up. However, the waitresses always seem to be rushing you outta there, which i don't like because I prefer to take my time and finish my food. But overall, the food is good considering the low prices you are paying.
mmmmmmmm.....pork dumplings.. mmmmm.. soupy pork dumplings and tea.
Yet to have a bad meal here. The prices are fantastic, the food is tasty. A few things have been a bit on the oily side, but I can overlook that. Went here with a group of about 8 people, and it was great. Everyone was really happy with their food. Have been numerous other times and always just really good.
Cash only people!!!!! Know before you go!
I've been coming here for 8 years now and at first it was absolute delicious because it was so different than other restaurants in town. The quality of service and food gradually declined over the years. There no doubt in my mind that this is the one of the best Chinese restaurants in town but unfortunately it surely isn't what it used to be. Nevertheless, the prices are very very reasonable (best lunch deal in Chinatown), the food flavorful, and you know what type of quality you're going to get when you stick with what you want. I don't think you can say that for about 95% of the Chinese restaurants in town.
We came here for lunch when we were in Boston. The food was pretty good and the price was reasonable, too. I had the lunch special with the chinese veggies with beef and my bf had the pork chop over rice. The soup that came with the lunch special was ok and my only complaint about the chinese veggies with beef is it was a little too oily. Other than that the place is quite good.
I have one HUGE regret about Taiwan Cafe.
It's quite simply that I haven't found very many Taiwanese dishes that I really enjoy.
For preparation and sticking to the style of food they are simply amazing and their most incredible factor is their staff.
The last time that I was there I went in to order some food for take out just when there was a bit of chill starting to rustle up in the air out side. While I was waiting for my food to be prepared multiple members of their staff came up to me trying to convince me to sit and have a cup of tea during my wait. I mean really, do people have to be that nice!!
Simply the best place around if you dig the style, however if you are like me and you are still trying to find the perfect dish it may take a couple of visits. But hey, at least you'll enjoy going there.
More than four stars, but not five. My second favorite place in Chinatown, and less crowded than Gourmet Dumpling House. Ma po tofu, sauteed mushrooms, and pork with taro are my favorites.
Hidden in the corner of Oxford and Beach street, Taiwan Cafe, modest in appearance is easy to miss by many a passerby. However, it is truly one of Chinatown's hidden jewels. With a variety of many interesting dishes, Taiwan cafe is not your typical Chinese restaurants.
I have been here several times while attending MIT. However, this was my first visit in a long time. For appetizers, we savored the beef tendons served cold with soya sauce and delicious Peking ravioli. For dinner we had three entrees including the delicious sauteed beef with long horn pepper. The other two dishes we had were Jumbo shrimp with chili sauce and the simmered chopped chicken leg with three essences in a hot pot. Both had their own special flavor and were unlike any dish I have ever tasted. The quantities were ample and Taiwan cafe was indeed worth the visit.
I admit, I am not a big fan of Chinatown (in any city). I know, I know - it's blasphemous. It's just that Chinatown is never all that clean and it smells funny. Furthermore, I don't really like to see what I'm about to eat hanging from a ceiling. And well, I think dim sum has the consistency of wet bread. Now, add in the fact that most restaurants don't serve alcohol and they all seem to use bright neon lights in their dining area and well, now you know how I really feel.
So, when my friend's boyfriend suggested this place the other night I was a bit skeptical. As I suspected, it was really bright in there. And, while we were eating dinner, so was the staff. Practically right next to us. They were sitting in the dining room eating a huge platter of chicken feat. I know that's what they were because I asked. Yeah, I'm that girl.
Now, after all of my bitching, I'll admit, the food was actually quite good. We had salt & pepper calamari, a noodle & beef dish, braised eggplant with basil and littleneck clams. Although it was mighty tasty, I wasn't crazy about the little oil slicks left on the bottom of each plate when we were finished. So, I had a good time, and the company was great. I just wish I liked Chinatown more.
Deeelicious, wholesome, rib-sticking homestyle cooking. We had the scrambled egg with beef and tomato and the fried porkchop over rice, which were both great. And a lovely, fresh bright green dish of kai lan sauteed with edamame and tofu. The eu char kway was as wonderfully crispy and greasy as hoped. And the panfried dumplings were to die for.
The only thing is that the xiao long bao, albeit spectacularly juicy, were definitely too thick-skinned.
Best of all, the six of us ate until we almost passed out, with lots of leftovers, and the bill was $43! Whaaat!?!
I first visited Taiwan Cafe when my boyfriend's Kung Fu school asked me to go out to lunch with them after weapons class. Now, my boyfriend takes his kung fu seriously, even more seriously than the food he eats. This was the perfect combination for him, and since moods are contagious, it made me feel very happy to have a happy beloved.
We sat down and his Sifu ordered all of the special stuff that you only get if you know it and can speak Chinese. No white treatment here, nope!! We got duck and taro in this strange cinnamonish sauce - it tasted like breakfast. I love breakfast! Duck breakfast is a little strange, but I'm open...
The crown jewel in my opinion was the shredded pork with dried bean curd. So super good and satisfying, a little spicy with lots and lots of flavor. I now use this dish as a comparison to judge other Taiwanese restaurants.( I'd say Mulan over in Cambridge is very similar for yumminess factor.)
The literal meaning of "Kung Fu" is to "put effort into." I'd have to say that Taiwan Cafe's kung fu is STRONG.
Visiting Boston and went based on reviews here on Yelp. Good food! I liked their Chinese sausage fried rice, oyster pancake and 3 cups chicken. Well done!
Loved it!! went in here for a hurried meal and it was totally worth it! The quantities of food are HUGE and the food it self is really good. Def hitting this place again sometime soon cause it's fantastic! This place get's five stars because of the quality of food, excellent service and the great prices. They also have a LOT on their menu, so I'm really looking forward to exploring it. Oh and the only problem we had was when we realized that they only accept cash here.
I've been a patron of Taiwan Cafe since about a month after it opened. My college buddies and I used to frequent this place because of the great food and fair prices. I remember that their rice plates were about 6 dollars and used to be piled high with porkchop/chicken with marinated egg, sour cabbage, and vegetables. This was like a Godsend to college students. We also became quite familiar with the staff and owners as well. Owners are super friendly and will remember you if you come in twice a week with a crew of 5-10, lol.
Over time and rising food costs have kind of cut back on the portions and quality now. I would have given TWC a solid 4 stars back in the day but regretfully I can only give them 3 now. The food is still very, very good and authentic. I love their Sa-Cha Fried Beef Noodles, Taiwanese Style Noodle Soups, Fried Pork Intestines, Steamed Dumplings, the list goes on and on. The great thing about TWC is they serve Taiwanese style breakfast in the weekend mornings where you can get staples like Warm Soymilk, Radish Cake, Fried Taro with Pork Filling, again the list goes on and on. I can't say enough good things about TWC and the food.
Note: If you order one of their rice plates. There is a good chance you might get a kiddie plate with teddy bears, ABCs on the brim, etc.! This is unique to say the least.


