Our first time at Tao Asian Bistro. We walked through an area with cement bathtubs with floating rose petals. Really pretty! I had phoned in my reservation but when I got there, they didn't have my reservation! Go figure! Anyway, we got seated promptly. We ordered the Pad Thai Noodles with Chicken, Fried Rice with Kimchee, Red Fried Rice with Pork Belly, Endamame, Lo Mein, & Long Beans.
It was just OK. Not fantastic. It's bordering on westernized Chinese food. The presentation of some of the dishes made me wonder why they selected their china that way. The bowls were huge and on a pedestal and not your usual rice bowl. Very difficult to eat noodles or rice. They try to impress that they are using Chinese china in an interesting, splashy way but it doesn't make sense. Why use a clay pot for long beans when there's hardly any beans in the dish? You have to really look into the pot to grab the long beans!
Décor is very nice. Big Buddha as the centrepiece. Dark with very low lighting and candles. I had to get used to it. There's a wall of pipes, in their own coloured showcases. Interesting.