Looking For Chai is a restaurant that offers Taiwanese cuisine. The restaurant is located at Bellevue, Washington, just off Highway 405. It is at Northup plaza and the plaza does offer enough parking space for all the customers. The name of the restaurant simply means "find tea", it is quite interesting.
The restaurant opens at 11AM in the morning and we got there around 12:30PM. When we got there, there were already people lining up at the door. There were 4 groups of people before us. Luckily, a table of 2 became available and we were the only party with 2 people and thus got our table right away.
As we sat down, we were given the menu and it does have a wide variety of Taiwanese dishes. The dishes in the menu varies from street food, to steaks, to hotpot. We were quite hungry, but could not try everything that we want. So we ordered a bowl of beef noodle, Taiwanese rib rice, side dish with egg, sea weed, and tofu curd, and popcorn chicken.
The food was delivered to us rather quickly. The beef noodle came with a large bowl, but we were hoping that it had more soup in it. Along with the beef noodle, it also came with pickled cabbage, which is the best thing to have along with the soup.
Then the side dish came. The dish had less food than what we expected. There were only around 6 pieces of sea weed, 4 pieces of egg cut from 1 single egg, and the tofu curd was quite thick. It could have been sliced thinner. There were not enough sauce on the dish either.
The Taiwanese rib rice was decent and just what we expected. The rib was juice and flavorful. So nothing wrong or special here.
The popcorn chicken came with basil on top. The popcorn chicken was decent. It was fried correctly with not much grease. It also came with quite a large portion.
Before we left the restaurant, we also ordered a braised pork rice as to go. A single serve of the braised pork rice was quite large with a lot of rice. However, there was not much sauce on the rice and it was a bit tasteless and not much flavor.
Overall, we think that Looking For Chai is not the best choice for Taiwanese cuisine. Facing East would be a better choice.
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