I wish I could do as good a job with restaurant reviews as the hungry girl who blogs at A Hungry Girl’s Guide to Taipei… but I already know I’ll fall far short. For example, I have no pictures and just don’t have the knack for writing about food/restaurants like she does. In my defense, I didn’t think about writing a review for the blog until I was already out the door. I probably would have more careful observations had I been planning on a review during my entire visit.
A few weeks ago Angie found this place in a Yonghe alley and told me about it when she got home.
Actually…upon looking at the address on the namecard, it is Zhonghe… actually it is in an alley that is right on the border of Zhonghe and Yonghe.
Here’s the address:
Zhonghe City, Zhonghe Road, Alley 378, #2-1
中和市中和路378巷2-1號
02-2929-0102
It is EASY to get here:
- Take the MRT to the Yong An Market station.
- Exit the station (only one exit at this station) and turn left.
- Take the first left.
- Walk about 30 meters and the restaurant is on the right.
Now for the food…
Angie has ordered and enjoyed the smoked chicken calzone, but she didn’t save me any so we’ll have to take her word for it.
Tonight I got a 9 inch pizza… double sausage.
On the Chinese menu it is 雙味香腸 which means there are 2 different kinds of sausage. So… yeah… it is “double” but not in the sense that there is double the amount of sausage.
As soon as I was seated, they handed me an English menu. I don’t really like to use the English menus at most places because there are usually lots of translation problems… however this one looked fairly well done and my server’s English was quite good. So if you don’t read and/or speak Chinese… you’ll still be OK at this restaurant.
My pizza was great. I was impressed. The crust was thin and crispy… the sausage properly tangy… the olives and mushrooms were fine… the cheese was good. In all, it was probably the best pizza I’ve had in Taipei besides Alleycat’s and what we make at home. I haven’t been to many other places though… so I’m not really a pizza authority here. I prefer almost anything to Domino’s or Pizza Hut. Hungry Girl has reviewed several pizza places here.
My pizza cost NT$180 and came with black tea. For an additional NT$100 you could add soup/salad/bread/desert.
I did add on and the corn soup was good… I thought the Caesar’s salad was great… the bread was excellent (and homemade!)… the desert was a small pudding cup (also homemade) and it was good too.
As for the portion size… and value for the price… I’m not sure what to tell you. I felt like the quality of the food was VERY much worth the price. But it isn’t fair for me to knock them for the fact that I’m still a little hungry. I could have eaten the very same meal again… but I eat more than anyone I know. I’m sure that the quantity of food is adequate for most people and the price is fair on quality alone.
Staff was friendly… background music was nice… I thought the lighting was too dim (tough to read while I was eating).
2 responses so far ↓
1 Fer Fer // Oct 24, 2008 at 9:51 am
I agree with your review. I went last week and had the cheese/pesto/tomato pizza and it was really good! Angie had told me that the pudding was SO good which made me think that it couldn’t be as she said, but it lived up to her rave review. The only thing I didn’t like is that it seemed like we had to wait a long time for our pizza. But we were in a little bit of a hurry so maybe it seemed longer than it was.
Thanks for the review! Next you should try the Sunny Thai restaurant across the street from the pizza place. It has good curry!
2 joanh // Oct 31, 2008 at 9:56 am
hi! thanks for the mention and the compliment! this place is called 5 loaves and 4 fishes? hahaah. it sounds like it was good! i will have to check it out! hope to hear from you on the blog if you ever see anything good.
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