April 13, 2008
避風塘
Wanted to get something to eat after watching the U2-3D concert film at the Living Mall's movie theater. We were tired of the usual mall food so we went to the upstairs restaurant row instead of the basement food court. Been a while since we've had dim-sum, and the small dishes seemed like a good way to avoid a big stuffy meal, so we decided on the Hong Kong-style restaurant.
The dim-sum are ordered off-the-menu instead of choosing off of push-carts, which helps to make sure the dishes are freshly prepared instead of sitting in a steam-cart forever. We ordered a few basic things for the two of us. Lots of meat in the beef chow-fun, which is always nice. The dim-sum standards are nicely done, maybe a tiny bit greasy but that's the way they're supposed to be. A bit pricey for the simple dishes, but the quality does beat the hell out of the 24-hour dim-sum places around town. SanWant Hotel's Cantonese restaurant has nice quality and service but not as big a selection of dim-sum items. That makes 避風塘 definitely the #1 dim-sum I've had in Taipei so far.
避風塘
台北市松山區八德路4段138號10樓
(京華城10樓)
02-37621188