Midweek date night and I had a craving for some Taiwanese food. Wanting to try out somewhere different from our usual at Glamorous Wok, we ended up at Yuan Bao, in Pinelands.
The restaurant wasn't too packed and we easily got a seat. Service was fast and the decor was quite homey.
The menu was largely divided into mains depending on the protein. As with most traditional chinese cuisines, the food was designed to be shared. We ordered three dishes between the two of us.
The first dish that showed up was the Taiwanese brown sauce fried rice. It was a little bit different from the cantonese ones I've had previously as it had quite a heavy presence of mushrooms. It didn't appear to have too much by way of meat other than some very small pieces of char siu though. We would have enjoyed a better topping to rice ratio.
Next up was the Deep Fried Taro Duck. This is one of my all time favourite dishes, but this was done quite poorly. The taro was deep fried but fairly oily and not very well seasoned. Ordinarily the content would be roughly half duck half taro with two large serves of whole duck breast on the underside. In this instance, all we had were small slithers of duck meat throughout the taro, which made it quite disappointing.
Our third and final dish was braised tofu. This was the only dish that really met our expectations because it did indeed contain an ample amount of braised tofu along with some carrots, peas and shiitake mushrooms and this was fairly enjoyable.
Overall though, I would have to say that the meal was disappointing given the first two dishes and I don't think I'll be back anytime soon, especially when this basic dinner for two cost $75.
Taste: 5/10
Value: 4/10
Service: 7/10
Environment: 6/10
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