GEN. SUN LI-JEN RESIDENCE — Restaurant in Taipei

It's a tranquil restored japanese house that used to be the place for soldiers to meet their future wives back in the day. The japanese garden is nicely maintained (probably not to japanese standards but still pretty). The koi pond is filled with beautiful large and small koi fish. The green house houses a Chinese restaurant with slightly higher end prices where you can dine with greenery all around you. We opted for the bookstore tea house where there's a minimum order of 2 drinks. For lunch there's a sashimi set and japanese steak set that includes dessert and a drink for 780. For the afternoon tea you have a light meal of udon soup or creamy Japanese style udon and some other dishes with a coffee/black tea for 350. An espresso is 120 and coffee is normally 150. Food is alright but it's quite nice to dine next to the japanese doors next to all the greenery. You can reserve a tatami room if you have a larger groupm Credit...

Date: Sun 3 Feb 2019 Waiting time: Reservation (6 ppl) Service: Bit rushed Must try: Ginseng chicken soup Must do: Read up on the history of Gen Sun Li-Jen

The restaurant is the former residence of Gen Sun Li-Jen, a highly respected military General. His achievements are well publicised at the entrance to the restaurant. The restaurant closes at 9pm,so we felt rather rushed by the staff when we visited at 7.30pm, but that's a minor complaint. The food was perfectly acceptable. Hard to classify whether it was Taiwanese or...

Horrible service. Good definitely not as good as the pictures. We had reservations at 7:30 & were told that we needed to order before 8pm as they close at 9pm. Only service we got was when they took our order & served our food.....not even a smile or good bye when we left. Seemed they were trying to get us out as soon as possible. We were asked to pay our bill just alittle after our last dish was served. Definitely not a place to go to if you...