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| - My parents, who were born and raised in Taiwan, told me about this restaurant, that it had authentic Taiwanese dishes. I had to venture here naturally, and went here a few times to get some Taiwanese food for lunch. I've tried a myriad of dishes here, both Taiwanese and more generally Chinese- oyster omelet, stir fried napa cabbage with dried shrimp, a fish entree with some chili sauce, Taiwan style rice noodles, Taiwanese sesame oil chicken, and some Hainanese chicken rice. My favorites out of all these dishes were the Taiwanese rice noodles and the Hainanese chicken rice. The rice noodles were full of flavor and were reminiscent of the rice noodles my mom used to make when I was a kid. The Hainan style chicken rice had a nice ginger-sesame oil paste to go with the steamed chicken and rice. The Taiwanese sesame oil chicken was a stewy concoction of slowly simmered dark meat chicken in a flavorful ginger-sesame broth. I loved the broth, but you have to be hardcore Asian to eat the chicken, since it is roughly chopped with a cleaver and you will have to really work at getting all the meat from the chicken pieces, as well as picking out bits of bone while eating the meat.
We also had some bubble tea- taro and pineapple coconut. The drinks here are more frothy and light as opposed to the more heavier and dense drinks you might find at other bubble tea shops. I like how they have a good selection of jellies to put in your drink if you aren't tapioca inclined.
I'll definitely be coming here again to try more dishes and to get some bubble tea.
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