Tao's Kitchen

Cozy yet quirky spot with some great Cantonese food. We've been here twice and always enjoyed the food and friendly service. Faves are the toast with peanut butter, eat time milk tea (have it hot!) and rice rolls with XO sauce. The rest were good too. Peking duck was cooked perfectly (tho the bao could've been better), and the curry fish balls were tasty. Our little one loves swears by the popcorn chicken, light, crunchy and savory.

The food was very very tasty. The atmosphere was fun and warm. The servers were very nice and friendly. They had cool techno music playing in the background. I really enjoyed the food and delicious drinks. I really enjoyed my time there and I would definitely recommend going to this wonderful establishment.

*Open for dine-in and takeout July 2021* This place offers lunch special Monday through friday, if you are looking for a good deal (generic stir-fry with rice, soup and drink for $10.99 or $11.99). I liked the stir-fry rice roll with XO sauce and peanut butter toast. Roast duck and salt and pepper fried tofu are mediocre. Inside is spacious and clean, cute HK cafe style decor (pictures of food, wall art). Service is good. I may come back to try late night snack or dessert.

Tried here for the 1st time, they have some authentic Hong Kong style food. Saved us some driving to Bellevue. Their congees are good enough but lack of some traditional ingredients that offered from Chinatown or in Hong Kong. Their Sampan congee did not have any fried wonton or fried fish skin, cilantro, ginger and scallions. I understand some ingredients or topping are optional, but they are the ‘icing on the cake’ - An attractive addition or enhancement for your food. Their Hong Kong style coffee tasted much better hot than the iced one! All of their take out containers are styrofoam that many restaurants have stopped using. Maybe is due to recovering as a restaurant post-Covid (money is tight - for paper take out containers?).

This place is fantastic. The food is incredible and the service was very friendly. Give it a try. Steamed dumplings were homemade and delicious. The Braised Pork Belly and Eggplant is to die for - melt in your mouth. The iced tea is also served in a bucket of ice which is great because as time goes on, your drink will not get watered down. Serving sizes are large so I regret to say after the entrees, I had no room for dessert.

Pretty great food, we ordered the Salted Pepper shrimp, Mongolian beef, Beef broccoli, House Special Chow Mein, Salted Pepper Pork, BBQ Pork, and 2 iced teas. All but the BBQ Pork was amazingly well cooked, granted the Salted Pepper Pork, was a bit too salty, it was still great. We had ordered 2 Iced teas, and when we first got our drinks they brought the wrong tea and didn't take it back after it was corrected so I presume we were charged for the wrong tea. The service was really rude, when we sat down our server asked if we wanted a high chair for my daughter and I told him "Yes, we would like one", and I even took a seat out and placed it away from our table to let him see and have an easier time to place the high chair at our table. 5-10 minutes go by, another family comes in, he gets them a high chair and a booster seat almost immediately and when I asked him for the highchair for my family, he tells me there is no more and I didn't tell him I wanted one... That annoyed us but my daughter was able to kneel down on a chair. Even with all of that, I know how hard it is for servers so I was still going to leave a 20% cash tip for him since I wanted to still be nice. After I paid the bill, my other half told him I was just going to head outside to gather the cash for his tip from my party and when I went out to get it, a woman chased me out of the store and seemed to be demanding me to tip, and she was saying they "forgot" to include the gratuity in my check and they usually charge 18% for parties of 8 and more (I had a party of 7, 4 adults and 3 children), so I reduced the 20% tip to just 5% because they were rude to us, gave and charged us a wrong drink, and very rudely chased after me. Horrible service, but great food. Only order takeout or delivery from this establishment.