Did you know this place is called Hao Nian Dong in Chinese (aka Good Time Café or Nice Time Café in English)? I have been to several Hao Nian Dongs during my childhood and usually the English version is the Good Time or Nice Time variant. I didn't even associate 101 Cafe with it until my friend pointed it out when I was perusing the menu. They have a pretty extensive menu of noodles and potage and rice. The first thing that caught my eye was what I decided to order: sausage rice ($7.99). I am a sucker for Chinese (and Taiwanese) sausage so I had eyes for only that dish. It came out pretty quickly after I placed my order. And it was delicious. The large plate had a bed of steamed rice, with slices of sausage, some broccoli, a piece of beancurd tofu, a hard boiled tea egg, and some ground meat on top of the rice. Nowadays, I'm usually able to finish only half of my meal, but not the sausage rice. I had to stop myself from dusting off the last 5 remaining pieces of sausage and save some rice and the tofu to go with it. It definitely helps to order and communicate with the servers here in Mandarin. Otherwise, just double check when you order and ask for things like iced water. I don't recall a minimum for credit cards, though my order was over $7. They also have a buy one get one free deal for boba milk tea so I am thinking of adding that to my order of sausage rice next time! read more

101 Cafe - sausage rice ($7.99), after I had dug into it - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

Ordered Oyster Noodle Soup dine in restaurant on a Saturday late morning. The taste is genuine Taiwan flavor. Right portion right price. They don't serve free water or tea by the way. I am hoping to try out their lunch specials next time. read more

101 Cafe - Oyster noodle soup - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

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I was in the Diamond Bar area craving some Taiwanese food and I had seen this place so many times going to H Mart. This is one of my friends favorite places to get good quality Taiwanese food so I decided to give it a try. It's family-owned too, which is even better. When I walked in, the lady said hello and she was super nice and helpful with all of her recommendations. I settled on the Zha Ziang Mian, which I was excited to try because I've only had the Korean version. The service was quick and I was impressed. The lady packed it up in a bag and I could tell she really cared that I had a good meal. I ate all of it and the only thing I would complain about is that the soybean paste was a little too salty, but maybe that's the way it's usually made. I definitely like the Taiwanese version better than the Korean version because the Korean version is more sweet than it is savory. I'll be back to try another Taiwanese dish! read more

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Disappointed at the food portion. Paid $11 for a petite order of beef chow fun. For that price, there should've been noodles hanging out of the half box like a Superman cape. Fist time customer. Last time customer. They're nice folks. read more

101 Cafe - $12 beef chow fun, the box should've been bursting with noodles hanging out of it like a Superman cape. - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

If you're in the mood for Taiwanese food, this place is a decent option. The food isn't very salty or oily, but the portion sizes are small compared to similar cafes. We ordered the pork chop rice and it was mostly rice with four thin strips of pork chop, plus a few pieces of bok choy and half a marinated egg. On the positive side, the gentleman who helped us was really nice, they accept credit cards, and the location is definitely convenient. Overall, this place is just alright. read more

Love this place. The Taiwanese food is just so good! Highly recommend the street food cuisine for a bit of Taipei nostalgia.

Our family really enjoys Taiwanese food and today's lunch did nit disappoint. We had a late lunch (around 1:30pm) so the area wasn't crowded. The staff were really welcoming and nice. We ordered multiple dishes and our food came out right away. Our absolute favorite was the beef noodle soup and the green onion pancake beef roll. The noodle soup is one of the best we've had (and it'll be the reason we come back in the future), the broth was flavorful, the beef was tender and flavorful, and the noodles were qq. Overall, the taste was really authentic and reminded us of the noodle soup we had in Taiwan too! Though the beef rolls were smaller than other restaurants, the sweet and salty flavor as well as the crunchy green onion pancake really carried it. The oyster egg pancake was pretty good too but definitely different from the typical flavors. Next time we come back, we definitely want to try their stinky tofu and pork/rice blood. read more

Popcorn Chicken needs to be improved considering this is a taiwanese restaurant. I'll come back in the future to retry this dish. Will give you a second chance. read more

They have nice lunch special and dinner combination! Great for local customers if you're near by and don't feel like cooking! Here's some Menu for you guys to review as of 6/6/2022 read more

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4.5/5 stars but rounding up to 5 cause they actually serve legitimately prepared Taiwanese food and they aren't too crazy expensive too. Ever since I moved to California in 2005, I've gone to at least 4 or 5 different 101 Cafe/Good Time Cafe restaurants all in different cities and it's consistently been good during every visit. The one in Diamond Bar is I think the last standing one () and it's in the Hmart plaza right along diamond bar boulevard. My absolute favorite thing to order here is the "Check A Rice Noodle w/ Soup". It's a pork based broth that also has flat noodles. SUPER SIMPLE but SUPER DELICIOUS. The soup is flavorful and it's really savory and a good dish when you are feeling cold or under the weather. This is a hit or miss but I also really enjoy their sliced goose meat. It's a little pricey but the quality and the cut of the meat is pretty good! My last favorite thing is the fried tofu! I mean it's hard to mess it up but they do it really well here the owners are also from Taiwan too so COME SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES!! read more

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101 is another 好年㣊 (hao nian dong) nice time deli with a new English name. The food is the same as the other nice time delis. The food has good Taiwanese flavor. The service is a bit slow and it takes a bit for food to come out. Worth the wait if you're jonesin for some Taiwanese food in dbar. read more

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As I'm sitting here for lunch because their weekday special is pretty cheap and legit. I always see so many different families here. Some with very young kids and some with teens and old and young folks all together. Yes mostly this place is filled with Chinese people but you can read their menu since it's also in English. Ordered the pork pottage I believe it's called it's a soup base with veggies, pork and your choice of noodles. My picture will show you how it is. I would say come here for the lunch special because they give you a cold ice tea, appetizer and also a bowl of yummy soup which I think is my favorite thing to have. I have ordered here for dinner and yes it's a little expensive and for sure order inside and not take away because I feel like the take away gives you less for portion size. Fried rice is pretty good and beef gravy rice! Check it out and let me know. read more

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We're a fan of their fried pork chop over rice. I used to go to the rowland heights location under the name of plaza deli..but that place closed earlier this year and i've been on a quest to find a similar type of fried pork chop and was almost convinced that i'll never have anything like it again... My mom called me yesterday and said she heard that they opened up a place in diamond bar..I immediately took my bf here for dinner to try it out and it's exactly the same restaurant except with a different English name...the chinese name is still the same though.. We ordered the fried pork chop rice, stinky fried tofu, some kind of sticky rice dish, meat ball, and the shrimp egg omelet. The taste was totally the same as the ones I had before at either Plaza Deli or Good Time Cafe. The service was pretty good here too, they came around to make sure we got all the stuff we ordered and refilled the tea pot when needed. AND...this place takes credit cards..i think with min $15 purchase. YAYYYYYYYYY! Good place for some good old Taiwanese comfort food. read more

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Service is 2/5. Usually they're fast and average but sometimes they're terrible. Portion is 1/5. I would advise not coming here unless for the lunch special. Everything is so not worth it. EDIT : lunch special is now $9. It used to be $7. Don't come for lunch special. The food itself is normal 2.5/5. read more

Food portion size is very small and service is mediocre. Food came one plate at a time so some in my party had finished their food before the rest of the food arrives. Was told we order a lot and it takes time for them to cook (party of 7). There are many better food options out there so I will not be back again. read more

101 Cafe - $8.95 for this plate. More like an appetizer for me. - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

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BEWARE!!! NEVER GO HERE. Worst Taiwanese food I ever had. I will never go back to this restaurant. The service is horrible. No one at counter, I had to call from inside the restaurant.. He was rude and not friendly when he did show up. Food was cold and tasteless, no flavor at all. I am from Shanghai and eat Taiwanese all the time. Plenty of good restaurants in the area and do not need to go to this one. On top of that they refused to let me use the restroom saying it was against state law. Liar and lazy. Told me to go to HMart. I will go elsewhere and can't wait for the restaurant that replaces it after they go out of business. read more

When you're having a major craving for some authentic Taiwanese food this is the place to go in the DB area and don't feel like driving all the way to RH. The place is a quaint little shop in the H-Mart strip mall directly next door to Cherry on Top. The decor is your typical chinese food place with tables all around the perimeters with 2 large flat screen tvs on the ends of each wall. The menu consists of all your typical Taiwanese good eats ranging from rice dishes, appetizers, noodles, and a large selection of side dishes and even drinks. You definitely can't go wrong with the usual Pork Chop rice or noodles, or the super yummy oyster pancake. If you're not a seafood lover you can get the egg pancake version (pretty much the same batter and recipe as the oyster pancake without the oysters). They also have a nice selection of hard to find authentic TW soup dishes like the korean squid soup on rice instead of the typical noodle version. The staff is always super friendly and treat you like you're eating a good old home cooked meal at home. read more

Food is ok. Little salty. But the portions are way too small for the price. Their phone was off the hook so I had to go there to order. When I told them they just shrugged it off and picked up the phone and put it back on the hook. No thank you or sorry or anything. Then the phone started ringing. I literally helped them get business and they shrugged me off. I ordered 6 items and they only gave me 4 chopsticks. I asked for more and they said "I already gave you some." But I have 6 items. They gave me 1 more. I asked for another and she have me the evil eye and hesitated. I paid nearly $90 for not enough food and they were too cheap to give 1 pair of chopsticks for each item! I'm giving 2 stars just cuz its Christmas and the food was ok. read more

too expensive with this portions And be aware that lunch special only come with soup now ( no more drink ) read more

101 Cafe - Lunch special now 11.95 with so little portions and only come with soup not more drink . Way too expensive. - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

Price is better than average and flavor is decent, much better bang for the buck and flavor than other Taiwanese places. But don't come here if you're expecting high end dining or ambiance. Expect to get your own napkin and poor your own water read more

My freaking childhood in one restaurant. Been eating at some version of 好年冬 for pretty much all of my life. There's only 2 left that I know off. My childhood ones all closed and the one in Irvine also closed. BUT I WILL KEEP FINDING ONE!!! I ALWAYS order the SAME exact thing when I eat here. It will never change. If it does I'm just ordering on top of the same thing. Squid potage Intestines Taiwanese tempura (fish cake) The goose is good too. They have a lunch special that comes with green tea and a soup and a small plate of appetizers for like $8. Since we don't come into this area often we also got to go. Still good hours later！ read more

This place used to be one of my favorites, and I ate here at least once a week since childhood (even before they moved to this location). The food used to be delicious and the portions used to be generous. But now, they gave us tiny take out boxes while we dined inside. The portion sizes were ridiculously small, about HALF a bowl of rice with some toppings. The side vegetables (3 broccoli stems) and HALF of a tea egg were icy cold. I could probably fit the entire meal in the palm of my hand. Yet, each entree costs $12. After a 30 minute wait, they gave us one wrong entree (out of 4 total). To make up for it, they gave us ONE small sliver of pig ear on a sauce dish. We couldn't eat the wrong entree due to allergies, but they didn't remake the item. There was only one other customer in the store at the time we went. Will not be visiting again. read more

This place has the most comprehensive Taiwanese menu out of all the Taiwanese places I have been in Los Angeles and Orange County since moving here in 2015. We got the stinky tofu, the popcorn chicken, the pork chop fried rice, and the fatty intestine and oyster vermicelli soup. Every dish was delicious; the flavor was authentic. I can't wait to bring my the rest of my family and friends here. read more

We ordered 10 items and it was the right amount of food for 6 people. The hot and sour soup (S11) tasted more like the sour version found mainly in China. There wasn't much meat or ingredients in the pork soup (P1), but the flavor was excellent. The pork rice (A7) dish was a little disappoint since it was just a mixture of flavors rather than being able to taste the different parts of it. The stinky tofu (A31) was cut into small cubes and the smell certainly protruded through the Styrofoam. It included a sweet and spicy sauce to be used for the tofu, though I'd say both the tofu and the sauce didn't seem to have much flavor. Overall, the foods seemed mediocre. It has decent taste, average price, and good portion sizes, but there wasn't anything in particular that every just said oh this dish is amazing. read more

Cost have gone up so it's understandable that price will increase, but portion got smaller too, while price gone up 30%. Taste has also changed as well and not for the better. It will be my last time going here. What would have cost 50, cost me 80, with 40% less portion. You do the math. But if you think you still want to give this one classic restaurant in the Chinese community a try, expect Michelin star portion, McDonald quality. read more

The food is mediocre. I wish they could cut some items on the menu and focus on improving quality. I don't mind the price hike and small portion but quality. read more

The food are average and the portions are ridiculously small for the price.

This place is okay. My girlfriend likes the pork pottage here and says it is authentic. We also had the oyster pancake which was pretty decent. I had the sausage rice which was good but nothing really to write home (or on yelp) about. All in all, just a really "ok" place. I think places like Simbala are much better. read more

101 Cafe - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

Yukkk! Ordered two lunch specials to go for $10. The beef noodle soup was mostly noodles, only three small pieces of beef. The broth was acceptable. The sausage rice was terrible. The lunch styrofoam container was mostly filled with white rice with a few pieces of Chinese sausage, very little minced pork. It was very plain. They cheap out on the meat, vegetables, and other ingredients, you end up with 95% carbs. I will not eat here again. read more

Extremely small portion for the price. 14.95 for the beef chow fun. The container was 3/4 full and no taste. Soy sauce mix with noodle. Absolutely no wok favor DO NOT RECOMMEND read more

Same owners as Nice Time Deli (Hao Nian Dong). There were four servers on duty, and seriously they were all clueless. Didn't even write down one of the dishes we ordered and got another order wrong. But at least they were nice and tried to make things right, which at most places like this would typically be unlikely. So anyways, we order the green onion pancake, which turned out to be the best dish. Very flaky yet with a substantial chewy factor. We also get cold cut goose meat, omelet rice, oyster/egg, boiled veggies w/meat sauce, pan fried radish cakes, stir fried combo rice noodles, chicken/clam soup and pig's blood soup. The goose meat was actually pretty good as well as the oyster/egg. The omelet rice, usually made with ketchup, was too sweet. Boiled veggies were okay, but a bit oily. The pan fried radish cakes were flavorless and didn't have a good crunchy texture all around. The rice noodles weren't bad. Not as oily as others. The soups were both actually pretty good. They keep the place clean which is a plus. They also have lots of boba teas and smoothies to choose from. Overall, just an okay place to grab a quick meal. read more

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Acceptable tasting food. The quality is O.K. and the prices are O.K., but I've been to better tasting restaurants in Rowland Heights which give bigger portions for approximately the same prices. I honestly don't prefer eating here, but it's convenient and quick when I'm too lazy to drive to Rowland Heights area for my Taiwanese food fix. The service is sub par, but the food comes out fast and they've never gotten my orders wrong. I like that they have such a large variety of items on the menu, which can be overwhelming, but if you are familiar with Taiwanese cuisine, you'll recognize all the popular dishes. I've ordered their xiao long bao (shanghai style dumplings), oyster omelette w/the sweet ketchup sauce, stinky tofu, boiled pork and cabbage dumplings, pan fried onion cake, fried pork dumplings, beef noodle soup, shrimp fried rice, some typical sauteed veggie dishes, & fried pork chop with rice. Nothing has tasted awfully bad or supremely awesome, but the food is all right here. The restaurant is presentably clean, but I prefer ordering to-go most of the time. read more

I knew coming in here that my expectations needed to be small. I just didn't expect this place to blow that badly. If you're craving for a quick bite of chinese food in this plaza, head on over to A&J next door instead and thank me later. Pickled Cabbage Pork noodle : worse noodle soup ever. The broth had no flavor and was extremely greasy. Dried bean curd with celery: I think I was expecting something different when I ordered this. What I got was a cold plate of crap. For $5, I expect at least a LARGE plate of cold crap or at least something tasty .... UGH! Service was fast but the food was terrible. 2 stars. read more

101 Cafe - Dry bean curd with celery, not what i was expecting! - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

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The server is nice! Food came fast! The place is clean! This restaurant give variety food option on their menu! I only ordered a steam rice cake. It did not meet my exception( past experience) it came with sticky rice +some mushroom+ dry mini shrimp........contain 99% sticky rice! Where the egg or mini fatty pork? So disappointed! Prob will go again to try other stuffs....maybe or maybe not.... read more

pai goo fahn... pork chop over rice. this dish is probably one of my favorite taiwanese dishes so imagine my shock when my favorite place in rowland closed shop. thank god i have taiwanese friends who are in the know and told me they relocated. i cant speak for the other food here. i just wanted to focus and consume my pork chop and rice in bliss. what i ate: - pork chop + rice: fried crispy pork chop flavored just right. white rice, tea egg, broccoli (a step up from the standard cabbage). perfection. im not the type of girl that gnaws on bones, but im not afraid to pick up the bone to nibbled on the delicious crusty bits off. pros: - pork chop + rice - relatively cheap - location: not too far from my house/freeway - fast: quick in and out - plenty of parking in the Hmart parking lot ... located towards the right of Hmart cons: - service: shitty like all chinese places. be aggressive - taiwanese food galore: the never ending menu may intimidate, but if youve been to this type of taiwanese cafe, you know what youll want, without looking at the menu - no frills: this is like... the taiwanese dennys. service, eh, decor, eh, but food will always hit the spot. i suggest eating with a taiwanese friend who knows how to order - small: there arent many tables. a bit bigger than the old location, but still fairly small/quaint would i come again? if i didnt want to be put on high cholesterol meds, id be here every other day for lunch! read more

101 Cafe - Stinky tofu! - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

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Small Taiwanese restaurant with great tasting Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Must try along with their dumplings.

I'm surprised this place only has 3 stars. I love coming here, the food and service are great for a taiwanese cafe. Very clean and fast service. Portion and price are reasonable too. One of my favorite places in town. read more

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We don't have any good authentic Taiwanese restaurant in Dallas Texas and we moved from Texas to Cali for about 3 months. I love Taiwanese food, we have been eat out almost everyday, finally found this place that have great Taiwanese food. Cali is a very good place to live. Soooo many restaurant to choose from. YUMMY! we will be their repeated customer PS: almost everything are great BUT not the beef over rice, little meat, too much green bell peppers and onion. read more

If you're craving taiwanese food, this is the place to go! The area is very convenient since i'm in the area and the menu has lots of food. The taiwanese food there is very authentic and tasty. The takeout is very easy and fast when ordering from here. I insist on coming here and trying it out when you want something to eat! read more

The restaurant is small but ok. Definitely a lot of choices to choose from the menu B U T they need to reprint their menus with the correct English spelling. I've caught about 10 errors...funny ones too and had a good laugh. Though l know what they meant, some others may not. Other than that, the food is ok. I thought the pan fried dumplings were on the teenier side. Many other places serve them a bit bigger and juicier. I had the sliced beef with rice cake and thought it was alright. The next table to us had the stinky "tofo"....and you'll recognize the pungent smell. LOL. read more

101 Cafe - Taiwanese Near Me - Diamond Bar, California

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