Falafel King 中東蔬食料理 — Restaurant in Xinyi District

Summary: unhygienic handling of food

I did enjoy the food during my first visit and previously rated it 5 stars. Unfortunately, on my second visit, I noticed the cook handling the food directly after handling money with the same pair of gloves on the whole time.

I politely pointed it out to him thinking that he just made a mistake. Instead of changing gloves or at least washing the gloves, he took the time to explain that "yes, money is dirty" but so are other things in the restaurant that come into contact with the food, and he would not be able to avoid it without hiring an additional person at the cash register. And "if that is the standard" of cleanliness I required then I could cancel my...

Ordered the king size falafel; which I regretted later. As it seemed as though it was too much of everything, rather than just a regular size. In fact, now that I think about it I would have ordered two regular size falafels, than 1 king size.

There is something about the original size and portion that makes it so yummy. When it gets to big, I feel like the flavors are a bit harder to dig into like regular size.

Over-all, not bad and would recommend.

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One of the best falafel in Taipei, this place offers one of the greatest Middle Eastern food experience in town. Located quite close to NTU and NTNU, this small restaurant sells falafel in a price range of 100-200 TWD. Besides, this restaurant also sells a pudding with dates sauce for only 50 TWD. This restaurant owner is an Israeli, he doesn't talk too much but he's super friendly. There are seats for around 8-10 people inside. Although this place is very small, but when it's full of people this place feels very lively. Super...