Umai Yakiniku Wenxin Branch — Restaurant in Taichung

What’s on the Menu? On the menu, you can find typical Japanese BBQ dishes such as: raw meats, fresh vegetables, soups and salads as the side dishes. Besides, they also serve a wide selection of beef, pork, chicken and seafood.

What’s my favorite dishes? Not in particular. Beef and pork are fresh and juicy. Dessert is delicious as well. Overall, I would rate it as 😋😋😋😋

How’s the service provided? Table service was provided and staff were attentive, friendly and very helpful. Overall, the level of service is excellent!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Is there any seat available when you were there? Yes, there were plenty of seats available. Note that you need to make a reservation in advance to ensure you have a dining space available when you arrive the restaurant or avoiding long queue.

Is there a queue when you were there? No as it is non-peak hours.

How’s the décor? The restaurant is well decorated, clean and organized, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻: 1st floor is lobby that allows customers to have a sip of tea or coffee and preview the menu before seated, while 2nd floor is Main dining area and 3rd floor is a VIP dining room and restroom.

Is it convenient to travel to the place? Yes, it is about 3 minutes walking distance from Shui-An Temple MRT Station(捷運水安宮站) to restaurant.

Will I travel to here just for the food? Maybe. But, I prefer to Kanpai Classic (老乾杯) located in Taipei.

Will I visit the place when I am around? Yes, if I am visiting Taichung

Final Verdict: Overall, food and service were excellent that one cannot find anything...

I made a reservation about one month in advance for 5pm but was told to wait (not sure why). At 5.20pm I couldn’t wait anymore so I asked the counter and they immediately directed us to the second floor. The front counter on the first floor, none of them could speak English so it was a bit difficult for us as foreigners to communicate with them. We were seated on the second floor. The waiter, I did not manage to get his name or staff number, was very helpful. He spoke a little English and I spoke a little Mandarin so we worked together to order the food. He showed me an English menu but the online order website was all in Mandarin so in the end he used whatever minimal English he knew to help us place our order. Food was great, service was also phenomenal. Service was fast and the food is served one after another with no waiting time. The set is very worth it, but the amount for two pax is too much but that could be because we are small eaters. Sadly, we couldn’t finish the delicious salad, rice and some of the meat. The service staff came to change our grill twice and checked on how we were doing several times including peeling the prawns for us. Meat and seafood were all very fresh and worth the price. Only thing is the atmosphere on the second floor dining area was very noisy and at times a bit uncomfortable. It could be because we went a day before Mother’s Day. Otherwise everything is great! We even got a flower and card for...

It’s a nice restaurant but it was very hard to book. We were lucky to have only had to wait 30-45 mins. But that particular day the rice was under cook so we didn’t get any rice until we were finished with our meal. (Rice is my sons staple food) they also didn’t have noodles either which made the meal very meat heavy. During the course of our meal someone came by several time to let us know one of the children in our group was shrieking too loud (mind you it wasn’t continuous screaming) but we had a pretty big group, spending a decent amount in a private room. The room they gave us unfortunately did not have any doors so did not help with sound proofing.

When we were done our meals, we were told to choose our ice cream flavour etc but when it arrived all the flavours were the same because “they ran out” the best alternative they could provide was soft serve ice cream.

Originally we were quite excited to come here since we’ve heard so much about how popular and amazing Umai is, but we all left pretty...