Tai He Lou — Restaurant in Budapest

I love this place. Unpretentious family-run restaurant featuring well prepared and presented and very fresh Dongbei (Northeast China) cuisine. Very friendly service (English spoken). At our second visit, hot tea was brought to our table without asking, because they remembered from our first visit.

Our favorite dishes include the spicy tofu, mixed vegetables, sliced pork belly (practically melts in your mouth) and the amazing dumplings served in a special plate that lets the cooking water drain off.

UPDATE 19 Nov 2022: Visited Tai He Lou for the first time since it reopened. New chef, new crew, and am happy to say the food is still amazing and the service friendly. The menu is different, but they still have the dumplings! Dishes we tried: boneless fish with sauerkraut (amazing), sweet/sour pork Dongbei style (best I've ever had), water spinach (great greens, not on menu, ask for it), ma po tofu (with meat, very good), pork with garlic chive dumplings, boiled) (Mmmmmmm). Many others we will...

We ordered fried dumplings, rice and chicken with chili sauce. Let's start with the bad: this was the worst chicken of my whole life. It was cold which we didn't expect, it had a chewy layer of skin on top and the meat parts had bone pieces all over in them - I won't even mention that the taste wasn't that great either. The rice was okay but extremely overpriced - you could buy the same thing for 50% less. The dumplings were tasty and cheap compared to how many we got but probably they are frozen bought from DunaPanda which we could get for a few thousand as well. There are MANY better Chinese restaurants in the city so do not waste your time...

This restaurant is well worth taking the time to find it. It’s in district X Budapest’s Chinatown, don’t expect a Chinatown like in other cities. It is a lot of wholesale shops and some restaurants that cater for the Chinese community. Go and explore the shops and supermarkets then come here to eat. The food is delicious and very reasonably priced. The excellent dumplings are handmade in an open kitchen at the front of the restaurant. The soup had a good level of chilli and a great texture. The braised pork with glass noodles is rich and full of tender pork belly. Service is friendly and they try...