Taipei Chinese Kitchen — Restaurant in Silver Spring Township

No longer cook like they did last year new young kid messing it up. They use to make a very good hot and sour soup. My husband has been picking up a quart of hot and sour soup and a quart of wonton several times a month for years now. Even as much as twice a week in the summer. Must have bought over 100 quarts of soup last year alone from this place. The hot and sour soup always had lots of cabbage, onions, mushrooms in it. On 3/8 we order our usual again. This time a new younger man cooked it. However what i got was thin soup with no vegetables in it just lots of egg and broth and 3 small pieces of veggies in it. We took it back on 3/9 to complain that this is not hot and sour soup. Young man insist that this is hot and sour soup and that it never came with any veggies just broth egg and a few small pieces of veggies. So now this new young man is trying to tell me i do not remember what the soup i have been ordering for years from this place looked like. He is trying to tell us we have been getting this egg drop looking soup from them every time we ordered hot and sour and we just cannot remember what it is supposed to look like. Basically he is right we are wrong. No one makes hot and sour soup like this. Not even the old lady and old man that always cooked my soups here before. Even insists that this is how his mother taught him. Well i hope they are not thinking of handing the business to this kid because if they do we will need to find another place to buy our weekly soups from. Just wish the old owners would make sure that this young kid could cook the food properly before they let them take over. As you can see in the picture what i got as hot and sour soup was more like egg drop soup. Where are the mushrooms?. Where is the cabbage? Why so much egg? Also i just heard from my husband, the wonton soup was tasteless this time. The broth was almost as clear as water. No color no flavor. Will give them one more try. If they mess up the third time then it is goodbye to them for good. It is a shame this young man will ruin a good restaurant. this is not the first Chinese place to be ruined by the younger generation that does not care about traditions. The good taste in Harrisburg is no longer good tasting thanks to the young cooks working...

Typical American Chinese takeout food conveniently located inside the Giant Supermarket. This is the second Taipei Chinese Kitchen I've visited. The appearance and organization of its takeout menu is totally different from the one in Enola, but the dishes are similar, if not identical. It strikes me as very odd that even the logos are different but contain the same elements (island of Taiwan inside a circle, but different suns, and different fonts). It almost feels like this is a "bootleg" version of the other...

I spent a total of $73.00 on delivery. The hot and sour soup was neither, and the most tasteless soup I have had. The Scallion pancakes/spring rolls/and an order of simple egg rolls were a greasy, salt-lick infused mess. The house special LoMein as well as an order of Pork with vegetables, both had a disgustingly sweet taste....horrid. I would avoid spending your hard-earned...