Yuan Bao Taiwanese Cuisine Restaurant

We were craving delicious Tea-smoked Duck so we decided to have lunch at this Taiwanese restaurant last Thursday with a group of three. When we arrived, we noticed that they had lunch specials so we changed our order to include Taiwanese dumplings, deep-fried tofu, taro duck, and glass noodle soup with pork and pickled vegetables. This place is a hidden gem that offers authentic Taiwanese cuisine at reasonable prices. The dumplings were juicy, the tofu was silky, the taro duck was crispy, and the sourness of the noodle soup was just right and refreshing. This restaurant definitely deserves a full rating this time. Previous ratings were October 2018 4.5/5 and November 2016 4.5/5.

I love coming here for lunch because of the affordable lunch set. I always order the Taiwanese stewed beef noodle soup, which I enjoy because of the chewiness of the noodles and the tender, flavorful beef.

This restaurant is always busy for a reason. The service is excellent and the food is delicious. They even provide complimentary peanuts for pre-meal snacking, which were impossible to resist. While some of the dishes were a little on the oily side for my taste, it only added to their deliciousness. We found ourselves staring at the neighboring tables and their dishes looked equally appetizing. I can't wait to come back and try their weekend breakfast and other menu options.

I went here for lunch with all the Asian baby mamas at work, we had originally planned to go to Plum Street but they were shut down to personal issues. It's in Pinelands shopping centre, so decent parking all around.<br/ <br/ We all got cheap lunch boxes! They were a surprisingly massive serve of rice, veggies and protein, barring one girl who got noodles. Linda got the braised pork belly with mustard greens, soy braised egg, a weird tofu square, choi sum and rice. She also got some wintermelon tea as well. The pork belly pieces were super long! I normally cut mine up into an inch by inch cube so I was surprised to see these long finger like pieces. They were braised really tenderly, had a nice colour and there was a nice amount of fat. I love braised pork belly fat! The weird tofu square was included in all the meals, it just had an odd texture?<br/ <br/ I got this deep fried popcorn chicken, soy braised egg, weird tofu square, pickles, choi sum and rice. I got iced lemon tea with my meal. I really like Taiwanese style popcorn chicken since their chicken is so crumbed crunchy with a generous salt and pepper coating and the zing of deep fried basil too! This was quite a lot of chicken so I had trouble finishing it. I had just recently gotten my braces changed so I was struggling with my choi sum so I was enviously watching the seven and eight month old babies around me having no trouble with it. I love soy sauce braised eggs by the way, these ones had no iron ring of doom and the soy sauce had soaked into the egg white quite a bit!<br/ <br/ Christine got the deep fried chicken cutlet with Taiwanese sausage, soy sauce egg, tofu square, choi sum and rice. She barely got to eat this while it was hot cause her baby was fussy. She said she enjoyed it however.<br/ <br/ Hanna got the deep fried pork cutlet with funny prawn fried cake? Soy sauce egg as well, choi sum, pickles and rice. I ate her pickles since she doesn't like them.<br/ <br/ Lastly Michelle got these braised spicy beef noodles, they were generously saucey with tender pieces of beef, dangerous chunks of chilli, long wheat noodles and more choi sum! She picked out all the chili since she can't handle this but said she loved this dish and you could tell! Her food came out almost 30 minutes later but she finished eating it faster than I did with my meal! Slurpy, saucy perfection by her reckoning.<br/ <br/ Pretty good place! I'd happily go back there again for dinner if I could ever get a table. Every time I go to dinner, this place is absolutely packed with tons of families. The food here is generous and cheap, every meal pictured plus a drink was about $12-16!

Tried their weekend only breakfast (7-10am). Arrived nearly closing time around 9:45 they happily let us in for Taiwanese brekky feed. Place was half full in nice comfortable environment.<br/ <br/ Looking through menu (only had Chinese menu when I went) I spotted my Taiwanese favourites. Order arrived fairly quickly and I was soon digging in.<br/ <br/ Dumplings and intestine noodle tasted average. (3/5) Dumplings chewy thick skin and tad dry fillings weren't not too impressive. Broth of intestine noodle can be better.<br/ Highlight was an egg pancake. It was cooked perfectly with good combination of egg and crepe thin pancake. (5/5) <br/ <br/ Happy to have option for this breakfast place, I will come back again when I want to have egg pancake in comfortable environment.<br/