Really Good Seafood- Taipei Flagship Store — Restaurant in Da'an District

I got the 3500 meal for lunch Food was pretty good. Pretty average in my opinion. They cooked the abalone pretty well. The start of the meal was pretty good up until the beef or pork course. I chose the pork neck and only got like 4 slices. It's a third of the size of the beef if you chose that. The veggies for the pork was a cold broccoli and a piece of sweet potato. For the beef it was 1 snow pea and then a slice of bell pepper. Then came the dim sum course. It was fried sticky rice, I was expecting like a dumpling. It's downhill after the "dim sum course" The fruits was 3 grapes, a slice of orange and a piece of guava.

Last course was the most disappointing "homemade" dessert. It's Steamed sponge cake. The cake was not as airy as it should be and it cheapened the meal and experience. The end of the meal sort of made the rest of the meal feel less satisfying and made me feel like I'm over paying rather than happy to spend the money They charged 10% service fee which is stated. But, After swiping my credit card they proceeded to basically push for a tip restating how much the full total amount was then stood by to sort of watch me write a tip. When the person couldn't stay to watch, they had someone else do it. The Credit card was already swiped you got your money. No need to watch me like a hawk.

The restaurant was clean and tidy but not much of an atmosphere. Just felt like I was in a regular Asian restaurant. Didn't even take pictures of the place.

The alter with the constant burning incense was sort of messing with my taste. Not a fan of incense burning while I eat. Should have a fume hood there if they are constantly burning the incense.

Service was great almost constantly refilling tea until they swiped my card (stopped coming by after that). The server did forget to give me utensils for the new course after taking my old ones away.

I was really excited to try this place. But the excitement went away when the pork course arrived.

Overall 3 stars. Don't feel like it's that good of a place to...

We read others comment by bloggers on the restaurant that serve Muslim food but seriously we were dissapointed with the service and food. We asked if there is ala carte menu but not available. We ask if we can get the chef to cook different dishes but told by one particular male staff who spoke English that they mostly "grill" their food because their restaurant is "high end". Very arrogant.

Since the comment on the food in blogs was excellent, we wanted to try Taiwanese seafood as its our first trip to Taiwan. We choose the Muslim menu set that came in several price range and settle for NT1,800 per person, exclude 10% service tax. Total bill for 5 pax came at NT9,900.

The set was very "Japanese" as we had shasimi as opening dish. We can taste the freshness of the fish shashimi. We than had the not so fresh grill prawn followed by abalone but think it was overcooked. Than came the scallop but not so fresh and taste so so only. The tempura squid served was oily. The chicken soup served hot but came with the skin that spoilt the taste. The vegetable spinach and prawn fried rice was plain. The desert of fruits and ginko nuts was not what we expect of high end dining standard. For the price we paid, its a miss match.

If you wanted seafood as what you usually ate in Singapore, Malaysia, Bangkok, etc, this place is not for you. This place is for those who can splurged and with...

It's really good seafood, if not a little pricey. You can order set menus or order from the fish tanks (it's more shellfish than fish). I think the set menu between 2000-3000nt is the best option, but the buddha jumps over the wall in the 1000-2000nt set is delicious. My favorite dish in the set menu I ordered was actually not purely seafood; they have a lettuce gratin that is damn good, I'd chose eating it over prime steak any day of the week. The rich and creamy bechamel, golden brown on top, with sweet lettuce and tender bits of crab and shrimp made for a satisfying bite that could make a meal on its own. The seafood here is really fresh (in the case of sashimi, a little too fresh, the raw fish hadn't developed any flavors yet), and the other dishes on the menu are also really good. I can see why Tom Cruise likes this place; the seafood is really good,...