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| - Meh. It was okay. Not great.
We shared the Koo Koo Chicken Bites, the Beef Noodle Soup and the Taiwanese Appetizer Plate.
Taiwanese Appetizer Plate consisted of boiled peanuts, Pork Intestine, and Fish Cake/Sausage. The peanuts were okay, pretty bland really, but that's boiled peanuts for you. The Fish Cake/Sausage was not what I was expecting, as the photo on the menu, and other photos on Yelp led me to believe that it would be some sort of pork-based or blood sausage. That was not the case. Generic, obviously not made in house, fish cake for us instead. The Pork intestines were really horrendous - super strong porky flavour. I guess I much prefer beef intestines, as the strong flavour really grossed me out. Everything on the plate was blanketed in a sweet sauce.
Beef noodle soup was okay: beef was well-braised, noodles were decent, broth a little spicy and a little sweet (I think tomato was used in the broth?), baby bok choy was overcooked.
Chicken bites were okay - dredged in a light coating of corn starch and some seasoning and spices. Dark meat, which is always my preference. Not extremely flavourful, but you had the option to kick up the flavour with your choice of powders you could dust on top of the chicken. My dining companion and myself both preferred the curry powder out of all the options, most of which we found pretty bland and uninteresting.
Drinks were decent - I had the Lemon Honey drink with Chia Seeds and Grass Jelly, which I quite enjoyed - slimy and chewy in the most delicious way!
Atmosphere is cafeteria-like, with the unusual choice of thick deep red wall-to-wall carpeting on floor. You order at the counter, and they bring the food to you. Service was barely attentive, and certainly not very friendly.
Overall impression? I will not return. There are surely better options for Taiwanese cuisine out there. Oh, and unless you like things that taste like the rear end of a pig, avoid the Taiwanese Appetizer Plate (we nicknamed the rolled and braised intestines Piggy Piggy Bunghole). I would have like to have tried a few more of the other dishes to provide a more comprehensive review, but for now, I do not recommend it.
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