AI Spot Summary
The congee and side dishes provided by the restaurant have a above-average taste, especially recommending the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, salted egg and king oyster mushrooms, and spicy diced chicken. They are refreshing and not greasy, making it suitable for when you're too lazy to cook but want to enjoy home-cooked meals.
The restaurant has a great atmosphere, especially during late night hours, when customers who have been drinking come to enjoy congee and side dishes, creating a unique dining ambiance.
The staff greeted us warmly, and the service process was innovative, but there were occasional signs of impatience that affected the dining experience.
Reviews
📍Zhongshan District, Taipei City (MRT Zhongshan Elementary School Station)
Recommended by Michelin Bib Gourmand: Congee and Side Dishes Restaurant 🍲🍚
Before visiting, I was worried it would be like the very popular congee place Xiao Lizzi, which I don’t like as much (confusing layout, very noisy, and the dishes were cold).
Fortunately, as soon as I arrived, the staff warmly welcomed us, and the dishes and environment exceeded my concerns 😆
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Orders:
🌶️ Spicy Chicken Cubes ($80):
This restaurant's signature dish is indeed delicious!
Compared to typical stir-fried restaurants with larger and chunkier chicken pieces, the meat here is small and the coating is not too thick, making it great to pair with congee.
🥚 Kung Pao Century Egg ($60):
People who love century eggs will adore this dish; it has a stronger flavor and is salty, making it very appetizing 🤤
🍅 Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry ($50):
Egg is the main ingredient here; it doesn’t have much tomato flavor. It’s even smoother and softer than some Hong Kong-style silky eggs and definitely worth eating! (Next time, I would want my own plate 🤤)
🍆 Dry-Fried Eggplant ($60):
The texture is between typical bento dishes and Din Tai Fung. Personally, I prefer eggplants to be softer like those in bento boxes.
🥔 Sour Shredded Potatoes ($60):
Tangy and crunchy, very appetizing.
🫘 Sweet Bean Paste ($40):
So this is what it’s called! 🤣 It has an orange hue, slightly sweet, and it’s not the kind with a thick sugary coating.
🍚 Plain Congee ($10):
Charged by the bowl.
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Would I revisit? Yes!
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Note:
🔸 Cash only 💰
If you like pens, stationery fans in Taipei must know the pen shop Xiaopin Yaji, and Xiaopin Yachu is the original business of the owner.
Think about it again, how romantic it is to be able to go abroad to pursue your dreams after starting from porridge and side dishes.
And how delicious can the catering in this industry be?
Today I enjoyed seven plates of side dishes, two bowls of rice and two bowls of soup, which cost about 600.
Spicy chicken, the chicken is soft and tender, with enough spiciness but not too much.
Except for one of the salty clams, which was autistic, the rest were delicious to enjoy. The pickled salty spicy soy sauce also went well with rice.
The combination of golden sand king oyster mushroom, salted egg yolk and king oyster mushroom is very delicious.
Vinegar potato shreds, the sourness of vinegar and the crunchy texture of potato shreds combine to form a dish that goes well with rice.
Salted egg bitter melon, the combination of the slightly bitter bitter melon and the saltiness of the salted egg is actually very good. The bitter melon tastes moderately soft and hard, not too soft, and not hard enough to bite.
Chili Sesame Preserved Eggs, seasoned with Thai chili sesame and served with fried crispy preserved eggs. The unique flavor of the preserved eggs is perfectly combined with the chili sesame sauce and goes very well with rice.
The dried tofu in Beijing sauce is delicious, with a moderate amount of salty and sweet.
The example soup is radish soup. The radish is generously poured into the small bowl. Every piece of radish is very soft and tender, without any aging fiber.
Open until 5am at the latest, it is a great place for late night snacks and is recommended to everyone.
If you are interested, you can also visit the boss’s pen shop!
A porridge and side dish restaurant with generally good reviews
I live nearby and this is my second time to eat. Recently, I have added the process of getting a number plate:
- Get your number plate before entering the store
- Wait for the clerk to take your seat
- Wait for your number to be called before going to the counter to start ordering
Neither the customer nor the clerk are familiar with this process, so the clerk keeps yelling impatiently😂
The porridge and side dishes actually feel like a buffet, and the serving of small plates is quite ritualistic (especially since it is open until early in the morning and many people come to eat the porridge and side dishes after drinking, which adds to the atmosphere👍🏼). I feel that the price is about the same as the buffet. About +20 yuan, right? !
Overall, they are both average and delicious, surprisingly refreshing and not greasy. I highly recommend the tomato scrambled eggs, salted egg king oyster mushrooms, and spicy chicken (for example, a plate of spicy chicken is 80 yuan, I think it should be around 60 yuan in a buffet restaurant)
I'll come back when I'm too lazy to cook but want to eat home-cooked food, but I won't eat it too often because it's not very cost-effective~