Easily one of the top Chinese restaurants in Buenos Aires. But, there's a trick to it. If you're…read morenot Chinese, you'll be presented with their standard menu, which is "for non-Chinese". They're not going to tell you that, but it's the case - and it features all the usual classics of any standard takeout Chinese spot in town, done well, but nothing special. Ask for the menu for Chinese people, and you get an elaborate menu, longer than the first one, of classic dishes, primarily from northern and western Chinese regions - Mandarin cooking, Szechuan cooking, Hunan cooking. From that menu, we've never been disappointed by a dish, one after the other, excellent! Service is correct, efficient. Depending on which waiter you get, it can be friendly too, but that's not a given. Still, it's not rude, so given the quality of the food, I'll give them a pass on it. Prices are high, and it's certainly one of the most expensive spots for Chinese food in the city, but it's worth it.

Super great find!!! The duck was amazing!!! And the eggplant with garlic.. INSANELY amazing…read more. the service is lovely.. the seating is nice and cozy.. really recommend as a true flavor !!!

Amazing food really authentic as previous reviewer's have said do not judge by the look by the look…read moreof the place. The service is typical China in did you get the food as the chef prepares. The hot and sour soup is one of the best I've had in many years. It oozes of cilantro and there is so much tofu that one could be tempted to make a meal of it only. The greens beans were perfect. The right crunchiness and tenderness when bitten. The burst of Sichuan Pepper gave the bite back as required. I wish I had uncovered this place way before.

Brand, spanking new spot that just opened downtown, I think it opened the second week in February…read more Inside, it looks like an old pub, and they haven't done much in the way of decoration, of any sort. Until recently, it was apparently a small Peruvian restaurant, Angry Fish BA, which I'd never even heard of. I don't think I ever saw the place even open, though their Facebook page was active until last July - maybe it was only open at night. Somewhat extensive menu, and only about 2/3 of the menu is translated from Chinese into Spanish. Why? Because the other dishes are "really traditional" or "too spicy" for Argentines to appreciate. I think these guys will need to adjust that thinking. Why not offer it and see, it doesn't take that much effort to translate the dishes - something I made the waiter do right down the line. [Edit: Revisits over time - they've redone the menu to a multi-page one with pictures, and Spanish translations for almost all the dishes. Strangely, they still reserve one page with maybe 8-9 dishes on it that they don't translate and that are much more obscure dishes - a couple of them excellent!] Potstickers - Really well made lightly crisped dumplings. The filling, pork and chive, and a little underseasoned, though the hot sauce they brought on request was fiery and with a dash of soy sauce, was just perfect. Spicy Pork Belly - This was one of the non-translated dishes. I mean, these days, who doesn't dive into a pork belly dish? Beautifully flavored, sweat-inducing spicy with fresh chilies throughout the dish, and just absolutely delicious blend of slightly sweet pork belly, green onion, peppers, chilies, and Chinese celery. A very happy camper was I. [On those revisits - they have a couple of stunning, spicy chicken dishes - both a bang-on Szechuan peppercorn chicken, and in that untranslated section at the back, a fiery chicken hot pot. Prices have gone up a bit, but not significantly as of early 2018.] And, fairly reasonable - both dishes plus a bottle of water and tip came in at 375 pesos, or $24. The place is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week, which is unusual for that neighborhood, but gives a great option for those who like "real" Chinese food.

Hubby has been ordering and eating at this place since he was a young boy. He loves this place…read more Best place ever to spend a nice evening dinner when walking Cabildo (to or from an ice cream place for example) or a nice place to wait out the rain and have lunch or have an early dinner - any excuse to eat at Tao Tao, is a legit reason I'm saying. I love their sweet and sour soup (no meat). Vegetable fried rice and vegetable house noodles. We always get a Stella Artois to drink. Hot tea was extremely helpful one rainy day. The waiters are extremely nice, helpful and appropriately attentive. Waiters are old-schooled. Never too intrusive but asking if we need anything at a perfect time. We love the fact that it is so accessible to us and it is just a few blocks away from any place you are on Cabildo. Will definitely make this regular drop ins to Tao Tao. Very good Chinese food and excellent service.

The best chineese food of all. An old-fashioned resto that has been working for many years…read more The receptionist and the waitresses are excellent helpers at te time of picking from the long menu. It has an excellent quality of food and cuisine. Very good plates. During the week is very quiet and is not usually too busy. During the weekends better get early or prepare to wait! They have a good delivery service too. The place itself is quite strange, decorated as if you are in china, it is also very big. Age promedy: +50

A group of 6 of us ate here one afternoon to get a taste of China town and we were all pleased! We…read morehad prompt service, the menu offered many different Asian cuisines besides Chinese food, and everything we saw leaving the kitchen looked great! Our table unanimously ordered the chicken curry and everyone in the group was pleased with the flavors and presentation. This is not the best chicken curry I've had, it lacked a little in the spices category but otherwise I was pleased with the dish. I could confidently recommend this place to anyone looking for an easy lunch spot with an excellent reputation and rating!

Very good fried rice with egg. Excellent langostinos kung pao, not spicey ;(. Fair spring rolls…read morecon carne. Nice place, i would return.

Excellent potstickers and boiled dumplings, good soup dumplings although lacking in liquid,…read morefantastic yu xiang pork

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The name translates as "northwest wind". In talking to the owners of the place, it's for them, a…read moreplay on words, as they're from the northwest of China, in Xinjiang, and they were "blown in" to Buenos Aires to live and work, and bring the classic dishes of their region to our streets. I'm not objecting! And, they've taken the extra steps to make their menu very amendable to those of us whose Chinese is limited... the menu not only has the Chinese characters, but the transliteration into our alphabet of the name of the dish, plus a Spanish translation, plus a picture. For every dish! The cuisine of Xinjiang is apparently most noted for lamb and pork dishes, and leaning spicy without going full blown Szechuan or Hunan style. Yangrou shiujiao - lamb dumplings tinged with ginger and sesame are an explosion of flavor. On a solo visit I ordered them potsticker style, though she returned to say that the chef (I think her husband) highly recommended boiled with these, because of the rich, fattiness of the lamb, he feels when the dumplings are fried, you end up with too much fat, making them feel greasy. He brought them out himself and recommended mixing up a dipping sauce to my own tastes with soy sauce, black vinegar, and chili oil, which are on every table, ready to go. For the group visit, seven of us, we did a reprise on the above, and a potsticker style order of the pork, prawn, and garlic chive dumplings, jianjiao, were, I think, even better than the lamb ones, though it'd be truly hard to pick. Light, delicate, and complex flavors, with that little crunch on the fried side. Who could ask for anything more? One of our number, who lived for a couple of years in China, picked out a dish that sounded familiar to him, Suanlatudos, a lightly vinegary salad of shaved potatoes (they look like Ruffles potato chips, but they're just cut that way and then stir fried) chilled and tossed with red onion and cilantro. Amazingly simple, but wow, I could make that as a snack at home and be very happy. Next up, a classic dish of the region, Ziran yangrou, mildly spicy lamb sauteed with cumin. This dish really opened up our palates and got everyone primed for what was to come. It's just damned delicious. Their version of ramen, or lamien, is made with tender, long, wide noodles piled above a fiery chicken soup. They also have a beef version. Probably the spiciest dish on the table, and not quite enough noodles to go around a group of seven - I think we each got one noodle, but falling off the bone chicken, and tasty as could be. And to be fair, it's not intended as a dish for seven people. This was swiftly followed by the Shiuzhu niurou, which was billed as a spicy beef stew. It is spicy, but despite the looks, it's much lighter on the chilies than the preceding two dishes, and seems to get more of its heat from black pepper, ginger, and garlic. And wow, so good. This one was an unintentional order - I was talking with her about different dishes trying to put together a range of different things, and I think she just added it in thinking I wanted it. We didn't object, even if it was one dish more than we planned, it was that good. Wanting a bit of vegetable on the table, I ordered the Kaiyang baicai, basically Chinese cabbage and dried shrimp sauteed with a hint of ginger and garlic, and just the bare splash of soy sauce and vinegar. This is a dish more from the area around Beijing, but shows up on menus in Chinese restaurants that cover a variety of regions, leading me to believe that it's just one of those practically national dishes. And, for a few of us who like the more outré dishes, we picked the spicy stir fried small intestines, chinchulines as they're called here, or chitlins in the southern U.S. Here, Lazi feichang is a stir fry of diagonally cut intestines with bell peppers, onions, and chilies. Not overly spicy, but delicious, and surprisingly tender, and even the one or two folk who normally wouldn't touch these with a ten foot pole, gave them a try. So... let's see. The space - it's very orange, but it's comfortable. The two owners, absolutely delightful, and going out of their way to be helpful and make suggestions. The food, really just spectacularly good. Easily as good as Caracol de Amor, which has been my favorite since discovering it a few months back, and far less expensive. Most of the dishes run around 300 pesos, versus 400+ at Caracol. Our group of seven ate all of the above, plus waters and beers, and tip, and left for a grand total of 3780, or 540 pesos apiece, or just over $14. And we could have been supremely happy with one or two fewer dishes, but are even more happy to have tried all these.

Was expecting so much more. Had heard great things about this place. Was a bit disappointed it was…read morejust very ordinary Chinese food. The dumpling offered dim sum style at lunch were not a great variety and no vegetarian offerings. Soup was excellent but again, not all that exciting

Completely overpriced.. Dumplings were decent but main plates do not even come with rice. They…read morecharge 4 dollars for a tiny cup of white rice. Food was no better than your average Chinese take out restaurant.

Came in on a hot Saturday for some lunch and was NOT disappointed. This place is not like a cheap…read morebuffet where you get a lot of "ehh" food for a good price. This place has quantity AND quality. I will definitely be back during my stay in Buenos Aires. I am someone who can definitely eat her share, so this place is right up my alley. (Plus, the food is made with good ingredients so you don't feel slimey after your meal :)

Awsome finally after two weeks of mediocre tasting veggie food I found this oasis of plenty over 30…read moredif veggie dishes some Chinese some Argentinian and wait for it A desert bar:) all for 130 all you can eat go hungry!