My friends and I first heard about Taipei 101 a few months back when we were supposed to go and have a mini gathering there. However, we were unable to make it that night, and although we had always wanted to try Taipei 101 out, we never had the opportunity to do so, until Labour Day this year.
Honestly speaking, Taipei 101 is rather hidden, so the chances of you just driving past it is extremely high. If it wasn't for Starcat pointing it out to us, we would never have found the place! The decor reminded me of one Korean restaurant that I went to in Auckland, the same colour scheme and sitting placements. It wasn't smoky like the Korean restaurant though, so that was good. The one thing that I didn't like about the place was the fact that the music was on too loud, making talking rather difficult. Maybe it was because there were not that many patrons that day so the staff decided to create a more lively atmosphere or something.. Another thing that I found strange was that although we initially spoke to the waitress in English, she just started speaking to us in Mandarin. Lucky for us, we could speak pretty decent elementary Mandarin, so ordering wasn't that tough.. It helped that we had the menus right in front of us though!!
We decided to order the Spicy Noodles as mains, and a number of side dishes which were the Salted Fried Chicken, Squid and Prawn Roll, Taiwan Sausage, Hung You Chao Shou (some sour wantan thing) and the Deep Fried Tofu. The Spicy Noodles came served with half a stewed egg, meat gravy, beansprouts and chinese chives and it was actually extremely spicy, as they used a lot of chilli seeds and chilli oil!! It practically zinged out our tastebuds! The noodles were also overcooked and rather mushy.. We ll did not fancy it much and left most of our noodles in the bowl, untouched. The portions of the side dishes were really small, much to our disappointment. The Taiwan Sausage just looked really burnt and bad, although L thought that it was pretty good. I preferred the Salted Fried Chicken, although it looked rather charred as well. The Tofu was alright, and the Squid and Prawn Roll was passable. The Hung You Chao Shou was.. sourish as I'm pretty sure that they used the spicy preserved beancurd as an ingredient for their sauce and it was a little mushy as well. I preferred the kiaw we shared for a snack earlier on in the morning.. The food we had for lunch was seriously nothing to shout about, it was that blah.
Honestly speaking, Taipei 101 is rather hidden, so the chances of you just driving past it is extremely high. If it wasn't for Starcat pointing it out to us, we would never have found the place! The decor reminded me of one Korean restaurant that I went to in Auckland, the same colour scheme and sitting placements. It wasn't smoky like the Korean restaurant though, so that was good. The one thing that I didn't like about the place was the fact that the music was on too loud, making talking rather difficult. Maybe it was because there were not that many patrons that day so the staff decided to create a more lively atmosphere or something.. Another thing that I found strange was that although we initially spoke to the waitress in English, she just started speaking to us in Mandarin. Lucky for us, we could speak pretty decent elementary Mandarin, so ordering wasn't that tough.. It helped that we had the menus right in front of us though!!
We decided to order the Spicy Noodles as mains, and a number of side dishes which were the Salted Fried Chicken, Squid and Prawn Roll, Taiwan Sausage, Hung You Chao Shou (some sour wantan thing) and the Deep Fried Tofu. The Spicy Noodles came served with half a stewed egg, meat gravy, beansprouts and chinese chives and it was actually extremely spicy, as they used a lot of chilli seeds and chilli oil!! It practically zinged out our tastebuds! The noodles were also overcooked and rather mushy.. We ll did not fancy it much and left most of our noodles in the bowl, untouched. The portions of the side dishes were really small, much to our disappointment. The Taiwan Sausage just looked really burnt and bad, although L thought that it was pretty good. I preferred the Salted Fried Chicken, although it looked rather charred as well. The Tofu was alright, and the Squid and Prawn Roll was passable. The Hung You Chao Shou was.. sourish as I'm pretty sure that they used the spicy preserved beancurd as an ingredient for their sauce and it was a little mushy as well. I preferred the kiaw we shared for a snack earlier on in the morning.. The food we had for lunch was seriously nothing to shout about, it was that blah.
Overly spicy Spicy Noodles
Salted Fried Chicken
Prawn and Squid Roll
Hung You Chao Shou 
Crispy Skin Tofu
Taiwan Sausage with a side of garlic
One thing's for sure though, Taipei 101 serves really decent drinks! I had the Green Tea Milk Tea, L had the Heinekken Milk Tea, Starcat had the regular Milk Tea and K had the Honey Milk Tea. L loved her Heinekken Milk Tea, although I thought that the taste of beer and milk tea was rather strange.. I suppose it could be due to the fact that I am not a very big fan of beer though! The Honey Milk Tea was nice, albeit a bit too sweet and Starcat claimed that her drink was satisfactory. I really liked my drink, not too sweet and it had the nice jasmine scent of the tea! Thumbs up for the drinks! I would have taken more pics, but Taipei 101 isn't much for presentation, the only two drinks that came in clear glasses were the Green Tea Milk Tea and the Regular Milk Tea.
Green Tea Milk Tea and Regular Milk Tea
We all decided after the meal that future visits to Taipei 101 would be merely for the drinks, and never again for the food! A good place to go to if you're in the mood for Milk Teas, interesting variety and pretty decent quality!
Taipei 101,
RH Plaza,
BDC Area (near the new flyover)
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