Taipei Chinese Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas, Chinese Restaurant Details

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An old standby for lunch from years ago, this restaurant was always considered an excellent choice for a fairly quick, reasonable priced and delicious lunch. On a recent return visit, I found that it still hits the mark for most categories though the shrimp seemed a little less than fresh this time.

I have noticed what could be a trend in many of the local Chinese food places whereby the shrimp is not as tasty as it used to be some years ago. Of course I attribute this to the increasing price of shrimp and restaurant's attempt to cut those costs by using imported seafood from Asia that is of lesser quality, pumped full of antibiotics and largely un-inspected and unlabeled for source. Give me good ole Texas Gulf shrimp every time and I am a happy camper. I am not sure how they source their shrimp here, but it is definitely not Gulf Coast shrimp.

The Shrimp and Vegetable dish, subject to the aforementioned observations also contained mostly carrots. Surely water chestnuts, bokchoy, etc. has not gotten that expensive?1? The beef and vegetable dish had nice tender bites of beef, but, with the overwhelming presence of broccoli should more adequately have been called Beef and Broccoli.

Service was adequate and friendly and the place is still comfortable though maybe a little worn looking reflecting the number of years it has been in business. The lunch specials may still keep me coming back, but I may just have to avoid dishes with shrimp from now on.

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I LOVE THIS PLACE!! MY FAVORITE.

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Came for family Easter dinner. Not crowded, food good. Customers in here with Elmo blasting on their phone ruining everyone's meal, management refuses to do anything about it.

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I am a regular at Taipei in Castle Hills. The people are great, the atmosphere is relaxing and welcoming, and the food is top-notch. I eat there, all my friends love it, my kids love it, and everyone I take there wants to meet at Taipei over and over again. The combination fried rice, almond chicken, general's chicken, it is all terrific!

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Lunch is great, but the dinner menu does not make any sense. If you show-up after six the entrees don't come with soup, egg roll, or fried rice. I understand having to pay more, but the cost shouldn't almost double because it's 6:15. Their inflexibility completely turned me off and I won't be returning.