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Taipei Cafe

Taipei Cafe

946 Edwards Ferry Rd NE Leesburg, VA 20176-3324, United States

Cafe • Soup • Meat • Cafés


"I'd like to point out that this is not the same Taipei Cafe as the one in Rockville Maryland. I see that the majority of the photos and even some reviews for the other Taipei Cafe ended up on this page, which is extremely misleading. The name of this restaurant is also misleading. There's nothing Taiwanese about this place. They don't serve any Taiwanese style dishes. This place is your typical Americanized Chinese take out, serving things like Kung Pao chicken, moo goo Gai pan, and orange chicken. So don't confuse them with the other Taipei Cafe and know what you're expecting. That being said, the food was just OK. Spicy beef noodle soup: The broth is very bland. No beefy broth flavor here if you're looking for it. The noodles is the exact same noodle they use for their Lo Mein. This type of noodle doesn't really do a good job soaking up the broth flavor compared to something like hand pulled noodles, and is meant to be used in stir fry dishes, not noodle soups. Beef pieces were ok. It had a bit of tendon which is a plus. The vegetables are just the same ones they use in other dishes broccoli, cabbage, carrot, and onion. Mushroom and vegetables noodle soup: Bland tasting. It tastes as if they took the beef noodle soup and substituted the beef with mushrooms instead. Still has the same Lo Mein noodles. Steamed dumpling The filling was decent The skin wrap was too doughy on one side. It seems to steam from the wrapping technique. It seems like they folded the skin instead of making small pinches to seal the dumpling, which leaves you with one side of the dumpling with massively more dough than the side with the filling. This leads to uneven cooking, which explains the thick doughy texture that had a hint of a white center where the center of the fold is. Beef with green pepper and tomato This one is OK. Lots of onions. Beef is OK. The sauce is very Americanized, so it's soy based with added sugar and in this case the sugars from the tomato, that's been thickened with a bit of corn starch. If you come here thinking this is the same Taipei Cafe as the one in Rockville Maryland, you're going to be very disappointed. If you enjoy Americanized Chinese food and you come in with low expectations, then you'll like this place."