AI Spot Summary
The dishes at Chicken House are mostly impressive. The signature Three Flavored Chicken is tender and flavorful, the chicken rice is aromatic and delicious, and the chicken house tofu is well-seasoned, giving the overall meal a unique flavor. The bitter melon pork rib soup fully brings out the bitter and sweet taste, making it worth trying.
The restaurant environment is relatively noisy, which may affect the dining experience.
The service process is not uniform, the waiting time for dishes is relatively long, and the communication between the waitstaff seems to be lacking smoothness.
Reviews
Since the Michelin Guide Taipei debuted in 2018, it has been selected every year as a Bib Gourmand recommendation. Is Chicken House really that good?
On the day we made a reservation, the restaurant was packed with people, and many visitors had to leave empty-handed.
The dining experience was not very pleasant; the environment was quite noisy, and we waited half an hour for our dishes. The older waitstaff members even lacked a unified communication process: one server came to tell us that a dish had not yet been prepared in the kitchen and asked if we wanted to wait. We informed them that we would cancel it. A second server then asked if the dish had arrived yet, and we informed them that we had already canceled it. Then a third server brought out that dish anyway...
As for the dishes themselves, there were indeed some remarkable aspects. We ordered a few individual soups, among which the "Bitter Melon and Pork Rib Soup" showcased its bitter and sweet flavors perfectly, and it paired well with fermented black beans. Here’s a brief description of the dishes: