Dark Palace Taiwanese Gourmet — Restaurant in New Taipei

Bought the Bone-In Pork Chop Rice and Deluxe Braised Beef Noodles with homemade noodles. Both dishes gave a very generous portion of rice and noodles that really makes one full. The Pork Chop Rice was delicious and had a very nice salty sauce drizzled over and a portion of preserved vegetables that do not overpower the dish. The pork chop was succulent and savoury. The Beef Noodles were definitely one of the best I've had in my life. As an asian myself, I tend to like having mala soup for meals - it gives of a warm feeling in my chest while being savoury and spicy, and spreads its aroma of peppers and chilli on my tastebuds. This Beef Noodles' soup gave the exact same feeling, except much less spicy! The beef was extremely tender and soft, ripping and pulling apart extremely easily and just melted in my mouth with just the right amount of fat. I'll be thinking about these noodles when I get back to my home country. Definitely coming back to get these noodles when I come back to Taipei...

This place looks old, I can imagine Chang Kai Shek asking his wife if she’d like to go on an incognito date to try a commoners luxury meal. Madame Chang didn’t eat pork and they were out of chicken that day. They had to settle for the special: Signature beef tripe and shank ramen. Getting dressed for the ocasión was a complicated matter, they had to get in disguise without overdoing it. The staff had to pretend they didn’t recognize them and the couple make like they were normal, it was a very uncomfortable situation for everyone.

They enjoyed the food and the rumor of this meal saved the restaurant many years later when it was facing foreclosure after a costumer found a dead rat floating in the stew. The manager said it was just beef tripes that hadn’t been properly cooked. Today the place is thriving and enjoying then patronage...

Overpriced and Squeezed Customers as canned satin Great location, three restrooms at 2nd floor and overpriced food. Menu looked good that pretends to sell assorted Taiwanese staple with great qualities and service but in essence it doesn’t. Required 3 squeezed into 2 seats regardless only half seats taken in whole floor. The taste of “fresh veggie noodles” was plain as what it meant literally: cucumber, bean curd and noodles. The grade of rice and noodles they used indicated on menu can not proof them capable of doing great. In similar dinning culture like Japan, any food provider would never mention in that way. Japanese people do as what customers...