Little Taipei Café

January 2026: My family has been asking me to drop by this shop for about a month for Ba-wan (or Mah-wan). They are a large meat dumpling with a whitish-translucent skin, made from a rice flour. It is considered a popular Taiwanese street food and served with a red(-ish) sauce on top. Pricing is 5.25 each + tax. Each meat dumpling is individually wrapped in plastic wrap, making it simple to purchase however many you want. It will come with a small tub of sauce, so the shop prefers that you purchase the dumplings in sets of 3 or 4. (I have no idea how sauce is presented to you if you order a single dumpling.) Staff at the shop was pleasant enough. They let me take photos and answered my questions. I paid cash. I didn't look to see if they take card or alternate payments. I don't think so? Parking in this shopping center can be absolutely crazy during meal times. Crickets empty at 7pm sometimes. Best to bring a driver and a shopper where the driver just waits to pick up the shopper without needing to locate a parking spot. Takeout is probably best. I will brave the parking lot to return when the family starts requesting meat dumplings again.

I'd like to not seeing the big old dishwasher in the open air please. I don't need to know how dirty the dishes are. That said, the food was actually good. So were the prices. Also, their COVID paying system is quite unique. They would throw you a mini wok with a string attached across the table. You put the cash in the wok and they wheel it in. Amazing engineering.

Hard to give a 4 when the food is very good, but based on the other factors it's a safer bet. If you're American Chinese like yours truly you rely heavily on google translate if your reading ability is not up to snuff or simply non existent. That said, if you can somewhat get by it's "safe" to come here. I do not recommend going here without help for your first time if you don't have any clue how to speak the language or what we are referring to in the reviews. They have available certain breakfast foods on weekends and are also open earlier than weekdays: Lotus leaf wrap (bit fatty, tons of peanuts, has salty yolk) (粽子） Savory/salty soy milk (鹹豆漿） Taro cake (芋頭糕） Rice Mochi exterior with chicken meat filled "buns" (lady just calls it 肉餅) Savory rice "pudding" (碗粿） There may be pan fried buns (餡餅) egg pancakes (蛋餅） I also tried the Lamb and Cumin stir fry (孜然羊肉炒）Good but way way too spicy and a bit too much celery for me. Everything was good but I really loved the taro cake and what I deem the meat mochi and the savory rice puddings. I would get more taro cakes, meat mochis, rice puddings, and try the soy milk and next time skip the lotus leaf wrap and lamb cumin stir fry entirely.

This restaurant is still in its COVID transition phase as it still has a lot of take out prepared foods prominently displayed in the store. The foods here will no be like regular American Chinese food, but if you’re looking for Taiwan Chinese food then this is your place. Everything I got here was great and reminded me of Taiwan. The restaurant decor is nothing to write home about, and cash only.

I work for a restaurant but I prefer to eat their food everyday. It's decent real Chinese food. The staffs work with smiles on and the food has been made with heart.