Xianghe Xiáng Hé Serenity - Taipei

I was really curious to try this place after reading about him on the Michelin side, as I love to eat Perunes. it's a past since I left so I didn't go to all the dishes we ordered, but we tried a lot of different things and they were all great (although some weren't as tasteful as I would expect from perennial food). good prices and portion sizes, wonderful service.

Everything is so delicious. I'm here twice and I'll be back soon. ppl usually order some dishes and share them with friends, so it is better they come with a group of 3 or more. on this way you can order more and taste more delicious food.

We got 4 small dishes to share and two bowls of rice and there was plenty of food for two hungry people. The dishes we got were: king oyster mushrooms in vegetarian oyster sauce, sauteed vegetarian pork intestines, steamed stinky tofu stew and mapo tofu stew. The intestines were very tasty. The meat pieces were well seasoned and had a bit of a bouncy texture. The greens added a nice bit of crunchy texture too, I ate some of the chillies and they weren't very spicy but added a little more flavour still. I have no idea if it's a close approximation of intestines but it made for a tasty plate. The mapo tofu was delicious. Lots of slippery tofu with some of that Sichuan pepper tingle. The sauce didn't taste quite as strongly of the dobanjiang chilli paste as others I've had and this also led it not being bright red like other versions too. The king oyster mushrooms were excellent. Good big meaty slabs of mushroom with great texture and the vegan oyster sauce was very flavoursome. The broccoli on the side was fine, but it wasn't seasoned and was a bit wet. We enjoyed the steamed stinky tofu. I can see why it might divide opinion, there is an unpleasantness to the flavour but I kept wanting to go back for more. My best description for it is an addictive acridity. I'll definitely eat more stinky tofu but maybe I'll look for preparations with some other flavours in there too. We were served a couple of little mochi at the end which I think we're licorice flavour with a red bean paste inside them. Not a combination I would ever choose but it worked and I enjoyed them. We were also served free tea and refills throughout the meal.

This restaurant was great. The flavours were amazing. It is authentic Sichuan taste along with the numbing sensation of Sichuan peppers. The hot food is well and truly spicy. The portions are large, even their small . To the point the waitress told us we should stop ordering as it was way too much food (and she was absolutely right). The menu was in english. The waitress we had spoke enough english for us to get by with no mandarin, your experience may vary. Cash only. Poster on wall speaks about something to do with Michelin. Updated from previous review on 2023-11-24

Everything I got here was good. My favorite was the eggplant dish and fried mushrooms.