【Foodholic Niko @ Taipei】

"Delicious Hong Kong-style fast food" is a barbecue bento shop located near Taipei Station, about a 7-minute walk from the Z6 exit, on Huaining Street. The area is filled with snack restaurants popular among office workers, and since it's along my route home from the office, I decided to buy it for dinner.

I ordered the combo rice for $125, which allows you to choose two items from options like oil chicken, roasted duck, char siu, roasted pork, sausage, and lap cheong. I chose roasted duck and roasted pork. The skin of the roasted duck is very fragrant; it tastes rich and oily. However, the small downside is that it can be tough to chew (it has a lot of resilience!), so I wouldn’t recommend it for elderly people with dental issues, as they might just end up giving up on it entirely, hahaha. The roasted pork doesn’t have a terrifyingly strong pork flavor, and since I’m someone who dares to eat fatty meat, I found that eating a whole piece was not too greasy.

The white rice is topped with sauce and scallions. I felt that just eating it like this made me unknowingly eat a lot of rice. For those looking to lose weight and worried about overeating rice, you can ask the staff for less rice.

As for the side dishes, there are three items in total. Besides the tofu, there are two types of vegetables, which I personally think are quite tasty. Of course, it’s inevitable for a barbecue bento shop to be a bit oily, but that’s to be expected and still acceptable.

The bento I bought for my family also came as a combo, choosing oil chicken and roasted duck. The oil chicken looks great too; I’ll have to order that next time!

There is often a queue at the barbecue restaurant near CNR during lunch time.

🍽️Environment
The dining environment is not comfortable, and you often need to sit at the same table with others. Because the dishes are cleared by the self-service, the table may not be very clean. The Sishen soup only has barley and chicken (duck) racks, but it has a lot of ingredients.
The ordering line has to go through the queue again after picking up the meal and return to the seating area, which is a bit crowded.
This time I happened to encounter an air-conditioning failure, so the air-conditioning was not very noticeable. Generally speaking, the air-conditioning is quite strong.
The radio and TV are playing at the same time in the store, but the sound is actually from the radio, and the TV has no sound 🤣

🍚Meals
▪️Scallion oil chicken leg rice $120
Most of the time I come here and order chicken drumstick rice with scallion oil or a whole chicken drumstick with another kind of meat. I can't choose the three side dishes and the items are weak. The overall portion is OK. The scallion oil chicken legs are in line with the average quality of barbecue restaurants, but the side dishes may sometimes be too salty, and the amount of rice can be adjusted when ordering.

😀 This is a barbecue restaurant that you can still eat. You can consider it if there are not many people queuing up.

environment 🏠
There are a lot of office workers nearby, and the queues can be quite long during peak meal times. However, the boss is very quick and will not wait too long. The queue flow is not good, and you will collide with people who want to eat after picking up their meals, so you need to be extra careful. . If you want to eat inside, you need to queue up to order before finding a seat, and you need to recycle the tableware after your meal.

Meals 🥘
Choice of double rice/120 yuan/roast duck and crispy roast pork:
The self-selected double rice dish is 10 yuan more expensive than the normal double rice dish, but I think it’s pretty good to be able to freely choose the meat you want to eat. After ordering, the clerk will ask you if you want marinade and marinade with the receipt. Salt and scallions, sometimes the clerk is too heavy-handed and it will be a bit salty, you can just add a little more. There are three kinds of side dishes. They are all cold and the sesame oil is quite fragrant. Those who are used to eating hot dishes may not be able to accept it. The portion of meat is not good. Not much, but it depends on your luck. Sometimes you will get a lot of duck meat with bones. The crispy roasted meat is mostly fatty. If you don’t like meat that is too fat, you may want to pay attention. There is Sishen Soup at the back that you can enjoy for free, and it has quite a lot of ingredients and is very Buddha-like.

In summary, it is a barbecue restaurant that you can choose for work lunch, but you probably won’t bring friends here to eat.

Almost every time I come here, I must order the barbecued pork double combo. The barbecued pork meat is soft and tender, and the roasted pork skin is crispy and fragrant. It feels very good to bite into the crispy skin, which is crispy and does not sting your mouth. Including colleagues, I heard that more than one person thought the sauce was too salty, but since rice can be added, I thought it could be diluted with a little more rice, so overall the flaws are not hidden. This meal costs NT$120 and can be added with rice or soup. Personally, I think it is very worth it and it is also the most recommended Hong Kong style barbecue around.