Tai Pei

This little hole in the wall place has some fantastic food! The portions for your money are excellent and you will not leave without left overs. It is well worth the drive into the city for us.

They do a great job here. I used to eat here quite often, but I just kinda stopped because the portions are huge. The lunch comes with soup, rice, egg roll, and the entrée; there are other items offered for each choice, but four items on a lunch plate is great variety. Dinner is offered as well but I’ve never been for dinner.
They have parking and is easy to access. The building has a good sized dining area, and the service is great. Cute restaurant with some great offers.

Great place for reasonably prices and good food. The wait staff is very friendly and the food is always hot and fresh.

My friends and I first choice for good and cheap food. When you walk in it’s a nice small restaurant with your average Chinese restaurant style décor. The food though comes in decent portions especially for the price and some items have a half size that is plenty of food for one person. My personal favorite item would be the Beef and Broccoli which is served in a nice, thick sauce that goes good on rice. The service is normally pretty good as well

This place is a hidden treasure! The food is delicious and the lucheon special prices are unbeatable. The crab ragoon is perfect fried in a lite cripy wrap to were you can actually taste the crab. The Sesame Chicken is my all time favorite their sesame sauce is almost addictive! I just love all the food here eating here for almost 5 years now love it!

My family frequents TaiPei on a regular basis. The lunch special is a great deal and isn’t limited to lunch hours. The portions are generous, and the staff is always attentive and polite.

Tried to place an order over the phone but couldn’t because of a language barrier. I was trying to substitute an egg roll for a spare rib on the combination dinner. They could not understand what I wanted and they hung up on me.

I love love love Taipei! they give you so much food for a very reasonable price, and the food is wonderful!

We order a Dinner for 3 for my family of 4. There is always enough left for all of us to eat again the next day. Very reasonable prices. My kids love the sweet and sour chicken sauce on the side. My husband loves the garlic chicken. So yummy! We order take out about twice a month. It’s a family favorite, and getting everyone to agree is sometimes a difficult task.

Shameful Indulgence
Here’s the no-​frills, mobile/​abridged review of my experience:
1. My appetizer was brought seconds after placing the order. The meal arrived in less than 5 minutes.
2. 1 egg roll, bowl of egg drop soup, Garlic (Fried) Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein, Sweet and Sour Pork, Sweet and Sour Shrimp
3. $ 7.87 for all that, including tax, during dinner hours
4. Everything was infernally hot, like Hot Pocket-​magma-​fresh-​out-​of-​the-​microwave hot
5. I took less than half of it home, which was still sufficient to fill an entire take-​out box, so basically, I have a second meal. (I’m 6’1″, 170 lbs with the appetite of a lumberjack)
6. None of the previous statements is an exaggeration. The only thing small about this entire meal was its price tag.
The embellished version:
A restaurant like this is one where, when you’re eating, you have to wonder, «Okay what’s their deal?»
I walk in and see a super young girl working at the register – you know, the level of young where you wonder whether they’ve been visited by the Department of Labor recently, but hey, it’s a free country and I support hard working kids. I grab a table wherever, and admire the mounds of food everybody else is scarfing down. Surprisingly, it’s busy and there are not too many people ordering take-out…I’m curious.
I start picking through the menu. Yeah, okay, very reasonable prices for a la carte and entrees where you wonder just how much you’re really going to get. And then I come upon the middle page, with combos, or rather, numbers followed by a series of items with a banner at the top that says «Choice of white or fried rice.» I figure, yeah, that sounds right, which one of these items should I get? The waitress comes around, and I ask, «So I just pick an item from this list, right?» «No, no,» she says, «You get one of each.» Fantastic, I’m sold. A little bite of everything should be just right.
Motherly Asian Lady returns immediately with a sizable egg roll and bowl of soup. I’m packing an appetite, and this is the right start for me. I am concerned at first that the egg roll isn’t very hot, but first impressions can be deceiving, as I proceed to burn myself (multiple times) biting into it. There is real Chinese mustard on the table, which, for the uninitiated, is very spicy; somewhere between wasabi, horseradish, and what I imagine a weapons grade nerve agent would taste like. Exhaling while that stuff is anywhere on your palate may trigger asthma attacks in perfectly healthy adults. No kidding, this stuff is not recommended for people with heart or respiratory conditions.
And then the feast arrives. My first impression is that there must be some kind of mistake. I didn’t order all this. The only thing i recognize is the fried rice and Chicken Chow Mein. What is this giant breaded thing that looks vaguely like a drumstick? And this donut? Whose meal is this? Where’s my Sweet and Sour Pork? This final thought materializes before me as another plate is brought to the table. With that, it all becomes clear. This is, in fact, my meal.
The giant breaded chicken monster is two garlic marinated chicken legs that have been deep fried in what can only be doughnut batter. It’s like biting into a savory funnel cake, sweetness included. The conspicuously doughnut shaped item is the heavily battered Sweet and Sour Shrimp. The pork has been given a similar treatment, my Chow Mein is thoroughly sauced, and the fried rice is thoroughly average.
I treat food like an occupation, with care taken to complete every job with care, so it’s not often I get defeated by the quantity of food brought to me at a table. In some cultures it is rude not to eat everything or to not ask for seconds. But here, I am utterly defeated as I sullenly pack my box with less than half of my meal, which I am amused to realize is more than sufficient for an average person’s dinner.
As I pay my meager tab and walk out, I pause to consider how a place like this even stays in business. Surely, the notably absent adult male must be a local cardiac surgeon and these doughnut-​fried meats are the family’s ingenious long term strategy for wealth and prosperity to successive generations. Perhaps that young girl behind the counter will follow her parents’ dream and become a doctor too.
But then common sense prevails. The individual building blocks of each meal are inexpensive and prepared in advance of the rush, stored in some oven or possibly fried a second time (you know, just in case), then slathered in enough sodium-​laden goop to restore blood pressure to the dead or dying.
However, there’s a guilty pleasure in places so absurdly inexpensive, unhealthy, and unabashedly delicious. Whatever is lacking in appearance or the illusion of quality here is made up for by shockingly fast service of feel-​good food presented by charmingly efficient people.
For the price, you can’t possibly be disappointed. So come on in, grab a seat, get the combo, sit back and enjoy.

Nice family owned Chinese restaurant. (Though the family is actually Vietnamese)
Casual dining, clean casual atmosphere, large portions for the money– you won’t be hungry afterward!
They have their own dish called «Eggs Cantonese,» which I can’t get anywhere else, hence, for me, they have something no one else has.
The family is quite nice and personable with regular customers.

Hands down my favorite Asian place in the state. My wife and I come here weekly.
The service is super friendly, they come by the table often to check on you.
The food is wonderful. Perfectly cooked and seasoned. The menu is full of options, but doesn’t get crazy. They have lunch specials that are perfect for the price, an entrée, an egg roll and soup for about $ 6!
I always get enough food to eat left overs as a meal later and rarely ever spend more than $ 15 dollars for my wife and I.
Highly suggested, please go here and support this business!

This place is terrible, yes it’s cheap but the food taste disgusting. My wife and I ordered their dinner specials and were left with much to be desired. My sweet and sour pork was undercooked and the chicken chow-​mein was gray. In short, I won’t be returning here nor would I suggest this place to even my worst enemy.

Great hole in the wall Chinese restaurant. Friendly. Fast service. Yummy food! Also super cheap!

When one of my students said her family had a chinese restaurant I knew I needed to stop in and check it out.
I’ve now been a couple times with coworkers and family and have enjoyed the trip both times. On recommendation from my student, I ordered the Tangerine Chicken off the lunch menu. The order comes with an egg roll and egg drop soup as an appetizer as well as fried rice with the chicken. I also had the Crab Rangoon appetizer based on some of the other Unilocal reviews.
The service was very prompt and our appetizers and main courses were brought to the table very quickly. (FYI prompt service means the meal can be on the hot side, so you might want to give it a second to cool… you have been warned.)
The egg rolls were tasty. The soup was on the thicker side, but delicious as well. The Tangerine chicken was delightful, with just the right amount of sweetness. My son had the sweet and sour chicken and enjoyed it. My wife ordered a sampler style item off the menu that included chicken and broccoli, a rib, sweet and sour chicken, garlic chicken, and fried rice. She said it was good, but she preferred my Tangerine chicken. (another plate war win for me!)
Overall, it was a good meal at a great (!) price and I am glad to find another place to grab lunch near work.

My favorite place to eat. Great egg rolls and super fast service!

Tai Pei is a reliable place for a great Chinese meal. The service is friendly & fast, and the food is delicious. It is a jewel.

Amazing! Lots of options and the fried rice with water chestnuts added is the best I’ve had in a long time and I was able to get a half order which was more than enough for 1 and under $ 5

Seriously, order the crab rangoons. They are $ 2 for eight (mind you they are tiny), but still. They are sooooo good! And, the eggrolls are really good. We have tried several of the noodle dishes and the fried rices. We have not been disappointed yet. This place is a great value. If you’re on the fence, check it out!

My friend and I go to Tai Pei a lot. They have an awesome AWESOME lunch special — soup, egg roll, rice, and entrée for $ 5. Cheap and it tastes good. I always get their sesame chicken which is breaded differently than most other Chinese restaurants. I would recommend Tai Pei.