for an expat in Argentina, this is a sure fire taste of home when I just need a taste of home.. :)…read more it's always predicable and tasty!!

This is one that I never thought I'd be writing up. I'd never been to one of this chain's outlets,…read moreand had no particular intention to do so. I happened to be a couple of blocks away, planning on lunching at a different spot, a Chinese restaurant someone had recommended, which turned out to be closed during posted open hours, for whatever reason. And so, I found myself wandering into what I'd imagined to be a bastardization of all things Chinese. As a solo diner, I was directed to the bar, "unless I insisted on a table". Given that there were tables in the bar, it wasn't a big deal, just slightly off-putting. The place is huge, and it was busy. I sat at one of the tables in the bar, the bartender looked at me from behind the bar, and, clearly not happy about having to come out from behind it, since I wasn't sitting at the bar proper (no one else was in the bar area at the time, though it filled up later), came out and brought me the menu. I went simple - shrimp dumplings (220 pesos), and the somewhat famed Chang's spicy chicken (300 pesos), their corporate take on General Tso's chicken. The former, decent dumplings, the latter, a bit too sweet and not particularly spicy, but acceptable. Iced tea, with free refills, that's a plus, and especially as it was unsweetened with the sweetener options served on the side (75 pesos). PFC's doesn't put chopsticks on the table, at least at this branch, and a request for them turned into a roughly five minute hunt for some that required two bartenders leaving their post and scouring the restaurant until they found some. I'd noted that there were these little groupings of sauces on the bar - vinegar, soy, hot sauce, but not on the bar tables, and asked if I could have those. I was informed that those were for the bar itself, not for the tables, but they would see what they could do. Another five minutes waiting ensued, until one of them returned from the kitchen with a small plate carrying the same three, plus three little ramekins, one with Chinese mustard, one with a soy-vinegar sauce, and one with chili paste. As he set them down, he picked up the little spoon and started mixing the three together. I stopped him and asked him what he was doing - he explained that it was best to combine the three, he'd been working there for some time, and that was the way to do it, not have them separate. I told him I was capable of making that decision myself, and he told me that he knew these things better than I, and I should eat my dumplings the way he suggested if I wanted to enjoy them properly, and then turned and walked away. So, okay food. Sucky service. Kind of the reverse of what I expected. Expensive for what you get - the above two dishes and iced tea, with tip, 650 pesos. Not a place I'll be going back to.

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.

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

There used to be a Chinese place of this name along Av. Las Heras that offered up a selection of…read moredim sum, one of the only spots around that did. And a far bigger offering than either Hong Kong Style or Canton did or do. I never liked the physical space, but the food was excellent, and as a delivery option, it was a weekly call. When they closed up in 2012, I was not pleased. What I didn't know, is that they'd simply been priced out of the neighborhood, and decided to try for fame and fortune in the more relaxed and residential area in the northwest of the city. But here, they've been apparently happily plugging away for the last five years. They still have the same old multipage menus packed with Cantonese and Szechuan dishes, though a large percentage of them are now not available, without an advance phone call. As the owner, who still cheerfully attends every table says, most of her customers don't order anything but stir-fried noodles or fried rice, so stocking all the ingredients for the rest of it isn't tenable. But anything on the menu is available with a day or two's notice - or at least that was the offer. I've been twice now, once solo, once with a friend. Potstickers - Some of the best of these around - well seasoned, packed with pork, green onions, and more, and just look at the hot sauce, which is, as it used to be, a blend of fresh chilies, garlic, and szechuan peppercorn. 60 pesos. Steamed BBQ Pork Buns - Again, excellent, and with the classic slightly sweet barbecued pork instead of the more common simple stewed pork that so many places here offer. 50 pesos. Shumai - I don't know that I've ever seen shumai without any kind of wrapper, but honestly, after trying these, who cares about the wrapper. Huge, delicious pork meatballs infused with flavors of orange and tangerine peel and white pepper. 50 pesos. Kung Pao Calamari - On the plus side, laden with calamari, a mix of vegetables, and when informed "bien picante", happily made so, with a good amount of fresh chilies sliced and stir-fried into the dish. I also like that it was fresh chilies, not dried. Toasted whole almonds were served on the side rather than tossed in with the dish - I do still prefer peanuts with my kung pao, and the menu does specify peanuts, but nothing to complain about, unless you have an allergy to almonds. Though again, on the side, so you could just not add them to the dish. 158 pesos. Ma-Po Tofu - Easily the best version of this spicy tofu and pork dish that I've had in Buenos Aires, and among the best I've had anywhere. We slurped this down so fast that I'm not sure she'd made it back to the kitchen by the time we were done. 158 pesos. Cute little place, about a quarter the size of the old one. Great service. Excellent food. Really reasonably priced. It's a bit of a pain to get to from Recoleta, but this one's going to be a fairly regular trip for me - it's worth the effort. Easily moves to the top of my "Casual Chinese" list.

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 !!!

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.

Wasn't really sure what to expect of this all you can eat parrila but man was I really wowed. Nice…read morecuts of meat and an impressive cold and hot salad bar. You can get minutas as well pasta, milanesas etc. And a great dessert bar. Place gets packed quickly but really worth it