Taipei Cafe — Restaurant in Leesburg

I'd like to point out that this is not the same Taipei Cafe as the one in Rockville Maryland. I see that the majority of the photos and even some reviews for the other Taipei Cafe ended up on this page, which is extremely misleading. The name of this restaurant is also misleading. There's nothing Taiwanese about this place. They don't serve any Taiwanese style dishes. This place is your typical Americanized Chinese take out, serving things like Kung Pao chicken, moo goo Gai pan, and orange chicken. So don't confuse them with the other Taipei Cafe and know what you're expecting.

That being said, the food was just OK.

Spicy beef noodle soup: The broth is very bland. No beefy broth flavor here if you're looking for it. The noodles is the exact same noodle they use for their Lo Mein. This type of noodle doesn't really do a good job soaking up the broth flavor compared to something like hand pulled noodles, and is meant to be used in stir fry dishes, not noodle soups. Beef pieces were ok. It had a bit of tendon which is a plus. The vegetables are just the same ones they use in other dishes - broccoli, cabbage, carrot, and onion.

Mushroom and vegetables noodle soup: Bland tasting. It tastes as if they took the beef noodle soup and substituted the beef with mushrooms instead. Still has the same Lo Mein noodles.

Steamed dumpling The filling was decent The skin wrap was too doughy on one side. It seems to steam from the wrapping technique. It seems like they folded the skin instead of making small pinches to seal the dumpling, which leaves you with one side of the dumpling with massively more dough than the side with the filling. This leads to uneven cooking, which explains the thick doughy texture that had a hint of a white center where the center of the fold is.

Beef with green pepper and tomato This one is OK. Lots of onions. Beef is OK. The sauce is very Americanized, so it's soy based with added sugar and in this case the sugars from the tomato, that's been thickened with a bit of corn starch.

If you come here thinking this is the same Taipei Cafe as the one in Rockville Maryland, you're going to be very disappointed. If you enjoy Americanized Chinese food and you come in with low expectations, then you'll...

We ordered dinner two nights ago and had it delivered...the order was wrong. Last night we are sitting outside and a vehicle pulls up delivering food. We told the driver we did not order food and asked what address he was looking for...sure enough it was ours. We asked where he was delivering from and he says "Taipei", we again confirm we did not order food and in fact had just ordered from Solo's Pizza. He was as confused as us so he calls his boss and after hanging up tells us it is because the order was incorrect the night before, hands us the bags and leaves. We thought this is a nice gesture but a phone call would have been nice. Within 15 minutes Taipei calls and wants us to pay 50%...EXCUSE ME?! You unexpectedly deliver food that we did not order and now want us to pay for it?! What kind of scam is this?!?! We called GRUBHUB, who were wonderful by the way, and told us we did not have to pay then we get ANOTHER call from Taipei upset that we called GRUBHUB...asking us why we did that...well...we didn't want them to think we were dishonest and running a scam , so we called to make sure they understood the situation then he tells me "No pay...no food" and wants me to bring the food back!! I told him we were NOT paying because we did not order it and we were not delivering the food to them!! The call ended with the TAIPEI employee hanging up on me!! WHAT JUST...

I normally don't leave restaurant reviews because I am in the business but had to make an exception here. I would have left 0 stars if possible. I ordered delivery tonight for the first time. Ordered vegetable spring rolls with meat. Bit into one and there was no meat. Worse than that there was shrimp inside and I am allergic to shellfish. When I called to tell them to please be more careful that they could really hurt someone they seemed like they were too preoccupied to care. Asked me what I wanted. I said I didn't want anything and that I was calling to let them know this was a very dangerous situation for people with allergies. She told me I got shrimp because I "ordered spring roll with meat". I told her that meat and shrimp are not the same thing. Her answer to me was "ok, ok I will tell manager to change menu". I don't think they are aware of how potentially dangerous it is to not have correct descriptions of their food. I won't go back to any restaurant that is...