Taipei Neihu - The overall standard of teppanyaki is high, and the chicken thigh is crispy and delicious! The restaurant offers unlimited free rice soup and drinks, and the chef has a unique and amusing personality!
📍 Set for Two C NT$829
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The main course includes sirloin steak, chicken thigh, fresh shrimp, sliced abalone, and fresh oysters.
(Fresh shrimp, sliced abalone, and vegetables are served one portion per person, while the other items are served for two.)
The vegetables today are bean sprouts and water spinach, stir-fried to be very crispy, and they are not overly salty. Even with a bit of spiciness, they are not too hot. The sirloin steak is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It is very delicious when dipped in sea salt.
📍 Stir-fried Rice NT$20
This dish should be enjoyed with rice, and it's very tasty.
▶️ Environment
🔹 A total of 15 tables and chairs
🔹 The decor is clean and comfortable, with a bright ambiance
🔹 Free self-service drinking water, white rice, soup, and drinks
▶️ Friendly Reminder
🔹 It is advisable to make a reservation by phone; during weekdays, the lunch crowd is not too large, so walk-ins are also possible.
🔹 Cash only.
▶️ Overall Rating
🔹 If two people share this set, it averages NT$415 per person, which is quite a reasonable value.
🌟 A great choice for celebrating birthdays, gatherings, and dining out.
🌟 The duck breast and sakura shrimp fried rice are truly wonderful.
🌟 The set menu includes a parking discount for 2 hours and a 10% service charge.
The restaurants under the Wang Pin brand have always impressed me with their excellent service, pleasant dining environment, and high-standard dishes.
Especially the duck breast at Summer Palace is highly recommended!!
The "Summer Palace Yonghua Branch" is located on Yonghua Road in Anping, with great parking nearby. It just underwent renovations, and the entire space is spacious and atmospheric. You can make reservations online, but for large gatherings, it's best to call ahead.
The Summer Palace Tainan Yonghua branch features brand new decor that retains French elegance, with design elements and lighting accented in gold. The overall style emphasizes a modern and bright feel. The dining package allows for 2 hours of free parking at the Tainan City Government parking lot, which is really convenient and adds to the dining experience.
The space includes a round table in the center, an open area that can accommodate about 10 people, and a private room that can host 30-40 guests. There's also a separate dining area for enjoying desserts, which is very thoughtful.
Let's eat!
We ordered the French dual-person set menu for NT$2980 + 10%.
The per-person set is NT$1190 + 10%.
The set menu includes:
Parmesan cheese bread, hot appetizers,
Soups (Wagyu beef Borscht, seafood clear soup, onion cheese soup)
Salads (smoked salmon, mushroom salad, fruit salad)
Lemon sorbet
Seafood (Hokkaido scallops, prawns, flounder)
Main courses (A5 Wagyu beef, brandy duck breast)
Sakura shrimp fried rice
Desserts and drinks (variety of cold/hot drinks)
Three kinds of condiments:
The onions on the left are meant for the fried rice.
The spread in the middle is for the bread.
The rose salt on the right is for the main dishes.
The accompanying non-alcoholic sparkling drink can be refilled for free (you can drink as much as you want).
I found the Parmesan bread paired with the spread tasted better 🤣
(It can be refilled for free.)
Hot appetizers: Fennel butter shrimp + truffle steamed egg.
The steamed egg is salty, soft, and when paired with truffle, it's really a classic — even though it seemed a bit mini, I was really full after finishing the whole set!
The shrimp is paired with fennel butter sauce, which is chewy and delicious.
Soups: French onion cheese soup / Wagyu Borscht.
The cheese in the onion soup is very soothing as it stretches, and the broth is rich and sweet.
The Borscht with Wagyu beef is tender, and the broth is more refreshing.
Salad: Waldorf fresh fruit salad.
A small plate filled with almost six types of fruit: apple, strawberry, grape, pineapple, dates, pomelo, and quail eggs, with yogurt dressing that’s just right.
I think the most impressive one was the apple; I’m not sure if it’s the variety or if it was seasoned, but it had a strong longan fragrance and was really delicious 😋.
The mushroom salad was just average for me.
Seafood: Flounder.
Non-greasy and tender; I finished it quickly.
Lemon sorbet.
Serves to cleanse the palate before the main course.
Seafood: Prawns and scallops.
Chewy and fresh seafood.
Summer Palace sakura shrimp fried rice.
I think the sakura shrimp fried rice can be considered a signature dish of Summer Palace; each grain is distinct and not greasy, complemented by the pop of fish roe's texture, making it really delicious.
During the pandemic, I often ordered takeout from there — it’s fantastic.
Classic main courses: brandy duck breast / Wagyu.
If you haven’t had the duck breast at Summer Palace, it’s equivalent to not visiting!
The duck breast is substantial and large; even though it's a big piece, it’s never dry or hard to chew. The duck skin is crispy, and the pickled apples beside it provide a sweet and sour counter to the richness. Every time I eat here, it’s always amazing!!
Wagyu has rich marbling, and it’s soft in the mouth; the garlic slices beside it are an essential soul mate, truly giving a feeling of happiness. However, I find it a bit oily, but the portion size at Summer Palace is just perfect for me!
Dessert: strawberry lemon mousse.
The sweet and sour taste is quite sweet for me, but dessert must still be sweet 🤣🤣.
Drink: elderflower grape sparkling drink.
After drinking it, I realized the cake was indeed sweeter 🤣🤣.
Impressions: The duck breast and fried rice at Summer Palace are truly exceptional!! After not coming for a while, the standard remains high, and the service quality is great; highly recommended.
If you prioritize food: The duck breast and sakura shrimp fried rice are highly recommended.
If you prioritize the environment: Clean, comfortable, spacious, and full of ambiance.
If you prioritize parking: Motorcycles can park at the entrance; cars can park at the city government parking lot (with a discount for 2 hours).
If you prioritize restrooms: There are plenty, separated.
If you prioritize waiting: I recommend making a reservation.
If you prioritize service: Super great 👍.
If you care about value for money: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (This purely discusses food in relation to price).
Dining Environment
Located on Zhongshan North Road in Taipei, "Sankai Wagyu Teppanyaki" features a Japanese-style teppanyaki counter dining format. The restaurant has four teppanyaki counters that can accommodate ten people each, with a total of 40 seats. Although there are many seats, reservations are often hard to come by.
The storefront is situated on the street, decorated with a Japanese Zen style. The wooden design is complemented by subtle lighting and modern mirrored decor, creating a novel yet elegant atmosphere.
The dining area features branches and warm yellow lighting, providing a tranquil and comfortable dining environment, allowing guests to savor their meals with great aesthetic appeal.
Menu Introduction
The restaurant offers a selection of exquisite set meals, with main courses including abalone, scallops, two styles of lobster, Australian Wagyu, and Japanese Wagyu.
Each guest can also choose their preferred combinations from appetizers, soups, and desserts.
The restaurant has carefully selected a variety of sake, beer, sparkling wine, and red and white wines to ensure that every dish can be paired appropriately.
At the beginning, the chef showcases various ingredients, such as Kagoshima A5 Wagyu, to the guests. These ingredients are not only high-quality but also perfect for photos. The restaurant is very considerate, even adjusting the lighting to ensure guests can capture the most beautiful photos, reflecting the care taken in every detail.
Signature Dishes
Appetizer - Sweet Shrimp Yam Noodles: Served with a small cup of cold bonito broth, enhancing the flavor of the yam noodles. A hint of wasabi on the edge of the bowl can be adjusted to taste.
Soup - Seafood Soup: Made with fresh seafood, the flavor is rich yet refreshing.
Sake-Steamed Abalone Sweet Potato: Using South African abalone, simmered in sake until juicy and tender, paired with a creamy sweet potato puree, showcasing the sweetness of the sea and the richness of the earth.
Scallops with Sea Urchin and Fish Roe: Pan-seared scallops topped with sea urchin and fish roe deliver a melt-in-your-mouth sweetness, with squid rice crackers at the bottom adding an unexpected crunch.
Sake-Flamed Lobster: Light sake aroma covers the lobster, presented in two styles, where the lobster meat easily separates from the shell, allowing each bite to bring out different flavors.
Grilled Mentaiko Lobster: Lobster cream drizzled with mentaiko mayonnaise, with abalone liver adding a fourth texture, enriching the flavor layers.
Seasonal Vegetables: Sakura shrimp combined with baby cabbage in chicken broth, simple, refreshing, yet slightly elegant.
Tartare Wagyu Burger: Golden toast pan-fried with Wagyu beef fat, paired with a juicy Wagyu burger patty. The aroma of seasonal citrus balances the richness of the Wagyu.
Tomato and Wagyu Buckwheat Cold Noodles: Tomato juice pearls add a playful element to the dish, while the combination of Italian and Japanese styles offers a novel taste.
Grilled Wagyu Tamagoyaki: Rich layers of flavor leave a lasting impression.
Japanese A5 Black-Haired Wagyu: A5 Wagyu is rich in fat, with a crispy outer layer and a melt-in-your-mouth buttery aroma that is unforgettable, paired with snow salt and garlic crisps for an elevated flavor experience.
Wagyu Fried Rice: Made with chopped wagyu brisket, the rich aroma makes it hard to resist, and the portion size can be customized.
Seasonal Soup
Dessert - Mango Cake: A perfect finale to a sumptuous feast.
Sankai Wagyu Teppanyaki provides guests with an unforgettable experience in terms of ingredient selection, cooking techniques, and dining environment, making it a feast worth reminiscing.
📍Ximending, Taipei
Located on the basement floor near the McDonald's in Ximen, there is a large sign for Gen Lai Teppanyaki at the staircase entrance. After going downstairs, there is a door on the left side where you can tell the server how many people are in your group, and they will take you to your seat and help you place your order. Just a reminder, they only accept cash for payment!
Meals 🥘
I noticed that others had large chicken thigh steaks, so I would love to come back next time to try it!
❤️ Wang Group's top-tier teppanyaki cuisine, combined with customer-first service, is highly recommended for anyone wanting to try premium French teppanyaki dishes. Each post will feature actual dining photos; even if it’s just a photo of a drink, this is to prevent some users from pretending to dine without food pictures. Overall evaluation: 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
📍 The restaurant is located on the bustling Section 2 of Zhongshan North Road, near Zhongshan Station. It provides indoor seating (it's not clear how many it can accommodate, but observations suggest it can easily fit over a hundred people), and restrooms are available. 🚗 There’s a designated parking lot for those driving, right below the restaurant, which offers a 2-hour discount for dining customers. Additionally, the Taisau Zhongshan Building underground parking and the Zhongshan Sports Center underground parking are also designated parking areas. 🏍️ There are plenty of motorcycle parking spots on Alley 46, Section 2 of Zhongshan North Road, which should be fairly easy to find on weekends.
💬 This visit was for a Father's Day meal. Arriving before 11 AM, the waiting area was already filled with people waiting to dine, making it a bit chaotic as patrons had to stand while waiting for a table, although the actual dining capacity didn’t seem full.
The basement environment has air conditioning and provides industrial standing fans for ventilation. The servers consistently introduce every dish and guide guests on how to enjoy their meal.
Dining here allows you to watch the teppanyaki chef showcase their skills up close, but I suggest that the chef offer varying levels of doneness for each guest to accommodate different tastes.
After the main course, diners are moved to the dessert area, which continues the dim atmosphere that has been the same for the past ten years; it could be brightened up a bit to allow guests to converse and relax.
However, the environment in the basement may pose some challenges for those with mobility issues.
Meal quality: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
Service quality: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
Restaurant atmosphere: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
Value for price: 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
For detailed meal ratings, please continue reading below. ❤️
Every time I visit Osaka, I must have the Miyazaki beef teppanyaki steak at Shinsaibashi Miyachiku, Miyazaki-kan. I opted for the lunch menu with the best cost-performance ratio during the midday slot. The restaurant only serves Miyazaki beef (which is certified as such if it is raised in the Miyazaki region and grades A4 or higher), with four cuts of meat: lean meat, sirloin (ロース), tenderloin (ヘレテイト), and fillet/small sirloin (ヘレ). If you want to enjoy the rich fat of wagyu, I recommend choosing the more affordable sirloin set, which has a richer fat sensation compared to the more premium filet steak, albeit it might be slightly greasy. This time, we ordered the tenderloin set, which has less fat but a creamy and tender texture, also known as the "head of fillet," prepared from the part of the sirloin that is overly prepared into filet.
The set includes: appetizer with beef cold-cut salad, chilled corn soup, steak, teppanyaki fried rice, dessert, and green tea or coffee after the meal. The 200g steak is a substantial portion; 150g is already quite satisfying, and the price is reasonable. Additionally, I recommend trying the mixed meat option available in three different cuts to enjoy various parts.
The appetizer beef was surprisingly soft and delicious, having a kind of fragrant oiliness that you wouldn't get from the hot steak, which was delightful. It was paired with a Japanese-style salad topped with refreshing seaweed that was quite appetizing. If you understand Japanese, the chef will introduce various ingredients, and if you don’t, the chef will try their best to use Google Translate for key terms 🤣.
The chilled corn soup was tasty but not very noteworthy; it’s just an elegant corn soup.
For the steak, the chef recommends medium rare, cooking it in batches so you can continuously enjoy hot steak. Along with it, they also sautéed some butter mushrooms, butter eggplant, and bean sprouts. The mushrooms were incredibly soft and juicy with no unpleasant odor, which I loved.
The beef is always impressive every time I enjoy it; instead of the usual experience of wagyu being full of fat, Miyazaki beef tenderloin is actually a cut with less fat while still maintaining tenderness. Consequently, it doesn't easily feel greasy, allowing you to fully appreciate the flavor of the beef. Of course, I had previously ordered the sirloin set; the first bite is indeed more satisfying than the tenderloin, but the diminishing returns kick in very quickly afterward. Hence, I recommend considering the mixed set instead (~I've heard that the fat composition of Miyazaki beef is closer to that of healthy olive oil 🤣).
The dessert is French toast made from the same bread we've used to soak up beef juices and beef fat, coated in a red tea-flavored egg mixture, with options to flavor it with matcha, cocoa, or cinnamon. It was paired with an incredibly fragrant mango granita and refreshing pineapple coconut cheese, which complemented each other very well, making for a fantastic finale.
I highly recommend trying this when you visit Osaka!
❤️ Originally located at No. 121, Chenggong Road, Luzhou Night Market, but on my recent visits, they have moved to No. 127, while No. 121 has been returned to the vendors of Jiangjun Liangmian. Nevertheless, the crowd continues to come and go.
Overall evaluation: 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
🚗 This location is next to the Luzhou Temple Night Market, and there is no parking available on the street. Parking is available in the underground parking lot of Luzhou Elementary School (30 TWD per hour). You will enter from the corner of Luzhou Night Market. Motorcycles need to find roadside parking spots, and there are quite a few of them.
💬 I actually searched for a long time to find out what "Shack Rice" means (does anyone know?). However, I just take it as a rice dish covered with stir-fried ingredients, which is straightforward. Compared to other teppanyaki restaurants, the portion size and price here are very reasonable. I recommend adding an egg; choosing a soft-boiled egg to eat with the rice is really good. The downside is that you need to queue (when it was at No. 121). Now that the vendor is at No. 127 and there is no seating available, the number of customers ordering has decreased a bit, but there’s still some waiting time for the teppanyaki to be freshly cooked.
Food quality: 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Service quality: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Restaurant atmosphere: 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Price performance ratio: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
For a detailed review of the dishes, please continue reading ❤️
This Teppanyaki restaurant is located in Ximen Commercial District. It is located on the first basement floor and you will miss it if you are not careful.
🍽️Environment
It is located on the first floor of the basement. The stairwell smells a bit musty, but there is no smell after entering the restaurant. The indoor space is large. In addition to two cooking tables and a rock area where you can sit, there are also some tables.
The air-conditioning is cold enough. After entering, you can be seated by the counter and order food with him. Rice, soup and drinks are provided for you to enjoy.
For today, both rock areas were full at about 12:30, and business was good. It should be noted that only cash can be used for payment here.
🥩Meals
▪️Sirloin (sauce) $260
This time I ordered sirloin beef, and the sauce means black pepper sauce. The entire meal includes the main dish, bean sprouts and water spinach. Please see the picture below.
Tai Po Teppanyaki located in Taoyuan Station Front Station
It should be Taiwanese even if you have never eaten it.
This is a chain Teppanyaki restaurant that I have definitely seen on the road.
When you enter the store, the clerk will ask you immediately. Do you want it spicy?
While I was still looking at the menu, I immediately served cabbage and bean sprouts.
Move very quickly
Free tea and soup
At that time, I didn’t drink black tea because I had a hand crank on hand.
The soup of the day is clam soup
Just replace the clams with clam soup🤣
Normal and delicious
My friends and I both ordered beef🥩 + a soft-boiled egg🍳
The main course beef and two other dishes were slightly salty.
Not too strong in taste
The vegetables are still a little crispy and won't be completely fried.
The half-boiled eggs are fried just right🍳 and topped with soy sauce and pepper
Great to eat with white rice 👍
Recently, there was an event that offered a plate of taxiang bean skin if you received a five-star review.
Not many places for internal use
But the food is served quickly and the tables are turned over quickly.
Clean environment and lively atmosphere in the store
It’s a good choice when you usually don’t think of what to eat~
Food quality: good
Attached self-service bar: unlimited refills of porridge, soup, rice, and drinks.
Side dishes and sugar cane juice need to be ordered separately.
Because I am allergic to certain seasonings, I told the Teppanyaki chef that he would prepare a special meal for me so that I can enjoy the food with peace of mind. Not every store will remember or even be willing to customize the seasonings for customers.